scholarship -- articles and essays

Snyder and Barrett on Rehnquist's Lost Letter

March 20, 2012 12:50

Brad Snyder, University of Wisconsin Law School, and John Q. Barrett, St. John's University School of Law, have posted Rehnquist's Missing Letter: A Former Law Clerk's 1955 Thoughts on Justice Jackson and Brown, which will appear in the Boston College Law Review 53 (2012).  Here is the...

Bach, "Mobilization and Poverty Law"

March 20, 2012 08:00

image creditNew from Wendy Bach (University of Tennessee College of Law): "Mobilization and Poverty Law: Searching for Participatory Democracy Amongst the Ashes of the War on Poverty." Here's the abstract:In 1964, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, the federal government launched Community...

Nelson, "A Critical Guide to Erie . . ."

March 17, 2012 04:30

Caleb Nelson, University of Virginia School of Law, has posted A Critical Guide to Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, which appears in William & Mary Law Review 54 (2012). Here is the abstract:Library of CongressThis paper--part of William & Mary's recent symposium on "Law Without a Lawmaker"--...

Bowers and Carpenter on The Story of Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association

March 15, 2012 19:40

Challenging the Narrative of Conquest: The Story of Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association has just been posted on SSRN by Amy Bowers and Kristen A. Carpenter, University of Colorado Law School.  It appears in INDIAN LAW STORIES, Carole Goldberg, Kevin K. Washburn, Philip P....

Theory and Method in Legal History: A Symposium

March 15, 2012 16:00

Via Al Brophy at the Faculty Lounge, we've learned of the UC Irvine Law Review's recent symposium issue on Theory and Method in Legal History. The collection of legal historians represented here is truly extraordinary. Here are the articles, cribbed directly from Al's post:Catherine L. Fisk and...