ASLH Newsletter

Summer 1999


 
Table of Contents

News of the Society

1999 Annual Meeting
2000 Annual Meeting
Sponsoring Members
Sustaining Members
Donald Sutherland Prize
1999 Elections: Candidate Biographies

Announcements

American Antiquarian Society Announces Fellowships for 2000-2001
National Humanities Center Announces  Fellowships for 2000-2001

Recent Publications of Interest

UNC Press Titles


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News of the Society

1999 Annual Meeting: Toronto, October 21-23

Make plans now to attend the Society's Annual Meeting, which will be held at the Sheraton Centre Hotel in downtown Toronto, October 21-23, 1999. The meeting hotel is located directly across Queen Street from Osgoode Hall, home of the Osgoode Society, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, and the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Please watch for information on the Society's Room-Share plan, which will help members cut their lodging costs, in the conference mailing.

Peter Oliver and Marilyn MacFarlane of the Osgoode Society and Susan Lewthwaite of the Law Society of Upper Canada constitute the local arrangements committee. They have been most helpful in making arrangements for the meeting and will host the Annual Lecture and Reception at Osgoode Hall on Friday evening, October 22. During the reception, tours of Osgoode Hall and its wonderful art and architectural features will be available.

Sally Gordon has done outstanding work as chair of the 1999 program committee, which also includes Constance Backhouse (University of Western Ontario), Cornelia Hughes Dayton (University of Connecticut), Christine Desan (Harvard University), Tahirih Lee (Florida State University), Pnina Lahav (Boston University), William LaPiana (New York Law School), Victoria List (Washington & Jefferson College),

Kenneth Mack (Princeton University), Gregory Mark (Rutgers University, Newark),

Michael Millender (University of Florida), Richard Ross (University of Chicago), Christopher Tomlins (American Bar Foundation and Law and History Review), Howard Venable (New York University), and James Whitman (Yale University). Sally and her committee have assembled the most extensive program in the Society's history--and one of the strongest.  

Check out the H-Law web page for the complete program and abstracts of the papers. Once you've had a chance to check it out, you won't want to miss the meeting. Thanks go to Chris Waldrep of Eastern Illinois University, our webmaster, for his efficiency in getting this information on our web site.
 
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Plan Ahead: 2000 Meeting Scheduled for Princeton, October 19-21, 2000
 

The Standing Committee on Conferences and the Annual Meeting, with the concurrence of the Executive Committee, has selected Princeton, New Jersey as the site of the 2000 Annual Meeting. The headquarters for the meeting is the historic Nassau Inn which is located across Nassau Street from the Princeton Campus. 

President-elect Thomas Green has selected Charles McCurdy of the University of Virginia as Program Committee chair. Watch the H-Law web page  for the committee's call for papers. 

Former Society President, Stanley Katz of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School, and Dirk Hartog of the Princeton History Department have been of enormous help in facilitating arrangements for what promises to be a splendid meeting site to start the new millenium.


Sponsoring and Sustaining Members

The Society wishes to recognize and thank ASLH members who support the Society's General Fund by becoming Sponsoring and Sustaining Members. Sponsoring and Sustaining Members contribute $125 and $75 per year, respectively.


Sponsoring Members

Barbara A. Black Bruce Mann

Harold I. Boucher Maeva Marcus

Thomas A. Green Donald G. Nieman

Kermit L. Hall


Sustaining Members

Christopher Angelo N.E.H. Hull

G. Blaine Baker Herbert Johnson

Norma A. Basch Robert J. Kaczorowski

Michael Les Benedict David Konig

John Robinson Block Michael de L. Landon

David Bogen Michael R. Lazerwitz

Donald P. Brewster Arthur McEvoy

Bruce A. Campbell Joseph McKnight

David P. Currie Peter T. Middleton

Cornelia E. Dayton James C. Oldham

David L. Deibel Michael E. Parrish

James W. Ely, Jr. James Phillips

Henry N. Ess, III Stephen B. Presser

Lawrence M. Friedman Kathryn T. Preyer

Robert M. Goldman David J. Seipp

Robert W. Gordon Herbert T. Silsby, II

Hendrik Hartog Rayman Solomon

Michael H. Hoeflich David P. Wood

Peter C. Hoffer Stephen C. Yeazell

Wythe W. Holt, Jr. Martha C. Ziskind


Donald Sutherland Prize

The Society invites nominations (including self-nominations) for the Donald Sutherland Prize, which is awarded annually to the article judged the most significant contribution to English legal history. Nominees may include articles published in journals or collections of original essays and must have a 1998 publication date.

Please submit nominations, with three copies of the article nominated, to Professor DeLloyd Guth; Chair, Sutherland Prize Committee; Faculty of Law; University of Manitoba; Winnipeg, Manitoba; CANADA R3T-2N2.


1999 Elections: Candidate Biographies

The Society's thanks go to Victoria List of Washington and Jefferson College, chair of the Nominating Committee, and her colleagues Sarah Barringer Gordon (University of Pennsylvania), Mary Dudziak (University of Southern California), Michael Grossberg (Indiana University), and Philip Hamburger (George Washington University) for their hard work in selecting a strong slate of candidates for the Board of Directors and the Nominating Committee.  

The committee has selected ten nominees for the five open slots on the Board and two nominees for the one vacancy on the Nominating Committee. Brief biographies of the candidates appear below. 

A tear-out ballot is included in this issue of the Newsletter. Please complete it and return to: Donald G. Nieman, ASLH, Department of History, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403. Ballots must be postmarked by October 1, 1999.

Biographies of Board of Directors Nominees 

Barbara Aronstein Black was born and raised in Brooklyn, attended the Brooklyn public schools and Brooklyn College (B.A., 1953) Her LL.B. (1955) is from the Columbia Law School, and her Ph.D. (History, 1975) from Yale. She has been Assistant Professor of History at Yale (1976-79) and an Associate Professor at the Yale Law School (1979-84). Since 1984 she has been George Welwood Murray Professor of Legal History at Columbia Law School, where she served as Dean of the Faculty of Law from 1986 to 1991. She has taught a variety of legal history courses and seminars to undergraduates, graduate students and law students. She also teaches contracts. She is a member of the New York and Connecticut Bars, a member of the American Philosophical Society, the Selden Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of honorary degrees from Brooklyn College, Smith, Georgetown University Law Center and other institutions. She has been a member of the New York State Ethics Commission, and is a member of the Permanent Advisory Board of the Columbia University Jay Papers Project and a member of the Board of Guarantors of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University. Beginning with her dissertation on the judicial power of the Massachusetts General Court in the 17th century, her major interest has been in colonial legal history; she is also now engaged in writing about early twentieth-century contracts scholarship. Service to the Society includes membership on the Board, Chair of the Nominating Committee, during the 80s; President from 1986-89.  

Daniel R. Ernst is Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he has taught since 1988. (He has served as an adjunct in Georgetown's Department of History since 1996.) He holds an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, a J.D. from the University of Chicago, an LL.M. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Ph.D. in History from Princeton University. His publications include Lawyers against Labor (1995), which received the Littleton-Griswold Prize of the American Historical Association, and articles in Law and History Review, Reviews in American History and other journals. Currently he is editing, with Victor Jew, a volume of conference papers, Total War and the Law: New Perspectives on World War II, and is completing papers on New Zealand's Court of Arbitration, based on research conducted while on a Fulbright in 1996. In the fall semester of 1998 he was the Jack and Margaret Sweet Visiting Professor of History at Michigan State University. He chaired the Local Arrangements Committee for the 1994 annual meeting of the ASLH in Washington, D.C., and the Program Committee for the 1998 annual meeting in Seattle. He is a member of the editorial board of Labor History.  

Douglas Hay is Associate Professor of Law and History at Osgoode Hall Law School and York University, Toronto, where he teaches legal history and social history. He received his BA and MA degrees in Modern History from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in Social History from the University of Warwick. He has held visiting appointments as Professor of Canadian Studies at Yale and as SSRC Professorial Fellow in Socio-legal Studies at the University of Warwick. He has co-edited and contributed to Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England (1975), Labour, Law and Crime in Historical Perspective (1987), Policing and Prosecution in Britain 1750-1850 (1989), Friends of the Chief Justice: The William Osgoode Correspondence (1990), and (with Nicholas Rogers), Eighteenth-Century English Society (1997); he has published articles and chapters on English and Canadian legal history in other collections and in history and law journals, most recently in Past & Present (February 1999). Current work is a collaborative international project on the law of master and servant, and studies of the administration of the criminal law in the eighteenth century and of the court of King's Bench in the eighteenth century. He was on the Board of Directors of the Society 1985-88, and on the board of Law and History Review from 1983-1992. He also has served on committees, boards, or journals of the Law and Society Association, the Canadian Historical Association, and the Social Science History Association, and has been the Chorley Lecturer at the London School of Economics and the Iredell Lecturer in Legal History at the University of Lancaster. 

Barbara Holden-Smith is currently an Associate Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. She joined the Cornell faculty in 1990. Before that she was in the private practice of law in Washington, D.C and Chicago. She is a 1984 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School. She currently teaches Civil Procedure, Federal Courts, and a history course called African Americans and the Supreme Court. Her primary areas of research are in the history of the Supreme Court and race. She has written on Justice Joseph Story and his slavery jurisprudence. She is currently working on a biography of the first Justice John Marshall Harlan and on a study of the history of the NAACP's litigation strategy in criminal cases.  

Nancy Isenberg received her Ph.D. in History in 1990 from the University of Wisconsin, followed by a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Commonwealth Center at the College of William and Mary. Since 1992, she has taught women's history and film history (exclusively concentrating on the law) at the University of Northern Iowa, where she received tenure in 1998. Also in 1998, her book, Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America, was published as part of the Gender and American Culture series by the University of North Carolina Press. "'Pillars of the Same Temple and Priests of the Same Worship': The Feminist Politics of Church and State in Antebellum America," appeared in the June 1998 issue of The Journal of American History, and she has published articles in such journals as the American Quarterly, American Studies, Biography, and recently The Nation. Since 1995, she has served on the Editorial Board of Law and History Review, and is currently writing on the Patty Hearst trial.  

Daniel Klerman is an Associate Professor at University of Southern California Law School, whose principal research interest is English legal history. Prior to his move to USC in 1998, he was an assistant professor for three years at University of Chicago Law School, a Fulbright fellow in London, and a clerk to Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. He has a J.D. and Ph.D. in History, both from the University of Chicago. His dissertation, which he is currently preparing for publication, examines the private prosecution of crime in thirteenth-century England, with special attention to quantitative analysis and the role of women prosecutors. He has presented two papers at ASLH annual meetings and has published articles in the Georgetown Law Review, Journal of Legal Studies, University of Southern California Law Review, and University of Chicago Law Review. He has been a member of ASLH since 1991.  

Pnina Lahav is Professor of Law at Boston University. She has a law degree from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, an LLM and S.J.D. from Yale Law School, and an MA in political science from Boston University. She has been teaching constitutional law--American, Israeli and comparative--and political and civil liberties both in the United States and in Israel. She has been interested in human rights, women's rights and the right to free speech for a long time and has written extensively about these subjects. Lahav's most recent book is Judgment in Jerusalem, Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century (University of California Press, 1997) and in Hebrew, Am-Oved (1999). It won the 1998 Seltner Award and the Graetz Centennial Book Award, and has been a selection of the History Book Club. Lahav just finished a two-year term as the President of the Association for Israeli Studies, an association of scholars studying Israel in the United States and elsewhere, and served on the program committee of the ASLH for the year 1999.  

Gregory Mark is Professor of law and a member of the graduate faculty in history at Rutgers - Newark. His recent publications deal with the history of the right to petition, the origins and early development of federalism and corporate law, and the history of the role of the state in the creation of corporate law. He is currently working on articles dealing with the evolution of corporate law and the historical uses of the petition by

women. Professor Mark serves as a member of the Program Committee for the 1999 Toronto meeting of the Society and also serves on various other committees for the ASLH, the Association of American Law Schools, and other academic societies. Before teaching at Rutgers, Professor Mark taught at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. Before beginning his teaching career he was an Associate Counsel in the Office of the Independent Counsel investigating Iran/Contra. He attended law school at the University of Chicago and did graduate work in American history at Harvard.  

William E. Nelson, a lifetime member of the Society, is Ehrenkranz Professor of Law at New York University. He was Assistant Editor of the American Journal of Legal History when it was the official journal of the Society and simultaneously served on the Society's Board of Directors. He is the author of two books in the Society's Studies in Legal History series--Americanization of the Common Law: The Impact of Legal Change on Massachusetts Society, 1760-1830 and Dispute and Conflict Resolution in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, 1725-1825. He has also submitted his forthcoming book, The Legalist Reformation: Law, Politics, and Ideology in New York, 1920-1980, to the series. Another book, The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine won the Littleton-Griswold Prize.  

Emily Field Van Tassel is Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Indiana University-Bloomington. She received her graduate training at Case Western Reserve University and the University of Chicago. She received her J.D. from the University of Wisconsin, where she served as an editor of the Wisconsin Law Review. She first became a member of ASLH in 1977 as a graduate student. She has taught in both history departments and law schools. Institutions where she has taught include Georgetown University, the University of Maryland, Widener University, Case Western Reserve University and Indiana University. She was formerly Associate Historian at the Federal Judicial Center in Washington D.C. and was a Women's Law and Public Policy Fellow with the United States Senate Judiciary Committee. She has been a consultant to the National Commission on Judicial Discipline & Removal. She has worked with the National Archives and individual manuscript repositories, as well as federal judges, to insure the preservation of federal records and papers of federal judges. She has presented papers and published articles on the history of the federal judiciary and on the legal history of family, race and gender. Her articles appear in such places as the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, and the Chicago-Kent Law Review. She is the author of "Why Judges Resign" (Fed. Jud. Cntr., 1993) and co-author of "Impeachable Offenses" (Cong. Q. Press, 1998). She is currently working on the history and contemporary contours of judicial independence in the federal system, and on a history of family property law in the post-bellum South.  

Biographies of Nominating Committee Nominees  

Constance Backhouse is a Professor of Law at the University of Western Ontario. As of 1 July 2000, she will become a Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of Petticoats and Prejudice: Women and the Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada, which was awarded the Willard Hurst Prize in American Legal History. Her latest book on legal history, Colour-Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950 will be co-published by the Osgoode Society and the University of Toronto Press in 1999. Constance Backhouse has previously served on the Board of Directors and the Program Committee for the ASLH, and has also served on the executive committee of the Canadian Law and Society Association. 

Victoria Saker Woeste is a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago, where she works on problems associated with twentieth-century legal history, regulation, business, agriculture, and the state. She came to the Foundation in 1994 from Amherst College, where she taught legal history and American studies. Her Ph.D. is from the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at Berkeley, so she has spent her entire professional life in interdisciplinary programs. What that says about her relationship to history departments she leaves to others to discern. At the Foundation she is co-editor of Law and Social Inquiry and will help launch the new graduate program in law and social science in the fall. In 1998 her book, The Farmer's Benevolent Trust: Law and Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865-1945, was published in the Studies in Legal History Series of the University of North Carolina Press. She has published articles in Law and History Review, Business and Economic History, and Audacity; she has contributed to a collection of essays edited by Harry Scheiber and forthcoming anthologies edited by Robert Johnston and Catherine McNichol Stock, and by Wes Pue and David Sugarman. Service to the ASLH includes chair of the membership committee, 1997-2000; member of the board of directors, 1996-1998; and member of the 1992 Program Committee for the Yale meeting. She is currently at work on a new project involving lawyers, anti-Semitism, agricultural policy, Henry Ford, and radicalism in the interwar period.  

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Announcements  

American Antiquarian Society Announces Fellowships for 2000-2001
 

The American Antiquarian Society awards a number of short and long-term fellowships to encourage research in its collections of American history and culture through 1876: 

AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for four to twelve months of support on any subject on which the Society has strong holdings. Not open to foreign nationals (except those who have been resident in the U.S. at least three years) and degree candidates. Maximum award: $30,000. Deadline: January 15, 2000. 

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships for a minimum of nine months in residence at the AAS. Foreign nationals who are beyond the doctorate are eligible to apply. Maximum award: $35,000. Deadline: October 15, 1999. 

Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowships for one to three months' support ($950/month) for research on any subject on which the Society has strong holdings. Open to dissertation writers and foreign nationals. Deadline: January 15, 2000. 

Stephen Botein Fellowships for one or two months' residence ($950/month) by persons working on the history of the book in American culture. Deadline: January 15, 2000.  

Joyce Tracy Fellowship for one month's research ($950) on newspapers or magazines or for projects using these as primary sources. Deadline: January 15, 2000. 

The Legacy Fellowship is for one month's research ($950) on any subject on which the Society has strong holdings. Deadline: January 15, 2000. 

AAS-American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Fellowships are for one to two months' residency ($950/month) for persons working in any area of eighteenth century studies. Degree candidates are not eligible. Deadline: January 15, 2000. 

The AAS-Northeast Modern Languages Fellowship is for one month's residency ($950) for a person doing research on American literary studies through 1876. Degree candidates are not eligible. Deadline: January 15, 2000.

The Reese Fellowship supports bibliographic research and projects in the history of the book in American culture for one month ($950). Deadline: January 15, 2000.

The Richard F. and Virginia P. Morgan Fellowship provides one month's residence ($950) for persons doing research on Ohio history or using early Ohio printed materials; in bibliography or the history of the book; or both. Deadline: January 15, 2000.

The American Historical Print Collector's Society Fellowship supports research on American prints of the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries or projects using prints as primary documentation. Deadline: January 15, 2000.

A brochure containing full details about the AAS Fellowship program, application materials, and information about the Society's collections may be obtained by writing to John B. Hench, Vice President for Academic and Public Programs, Room A, American Antiquarian Society, 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA 01609-1634; by telephone at 508-755-5221; or by email cfs@mwa.org.


National Humanities Center Announces Fellowships for 2000-2001

The National Humanities Center, which is located in Research Triangle Park, NC, offers 35-40 residential fellowships for advanced study in all areas of the humanities. Applicants must hold the doctorate or equivalent credentials and have a record of publication. Both senior and younger scholars are eligible, but the latter should be engaged in research well beyond the subjects of their doctoral dissertations. Fellowships are for the academic year (September-May). Scholars from any nation may apply. Humanistically inclined individuals from the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life may also apply.

Among its 35-40 fellowships for 2000-2001, the Center will award three or four Lilly Fellowships in Religion and the Humanities for the study of religion by humanistic scholars from fields other than religion and theology. The Center will also award a Burroughs Wellcome Fellowship in the History of Modern Medicine--a senior fellowship for which historians of medicine or biomedical science, medical anthropologists, and other scholars whose work concerns the history of twentieth century medicine are encouraged to apply.

Fellowships are individually determined, the amount depending on the needs of the fellow and the Center's ability to meet them. The average stipend is $35,000, with a few available up to $50,000. The Center does not cover fringe benefits.

For application material write to Fellowship Program, National Humanities Center, P.O. Box 12256, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2256. Applicants must submit the Center's form along with a curriculum vitae, a 1000-word project proposal, and three letters of recommendation. Applications and letters must be postmarked by October 15, 1999.  

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Publications of Interest

Articles

Asia  

Vijayashri Spriati, "Toward Fifty Years of Constitutionalism and Fundamental Rights in India: Looking Back to See Ahead (1950-2000)," American University International Law Review, 14 (1998): 413 ff.  

Andy Y. Sun, "From Pirate to Jungle King: Transformation of Taiwan's Intellectual Property Protection," Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal, 9 (Fall 1998): 67 ff. 

British  

Christine A. Corcos, "Portia Goes to Parliament: Women and their Admission to Membership in the English Profession," Denver University Law Review, 75 (1998): 307 ff.  

David French, "Discipline and the Death Penalty in the British Army in the War Against Germany during the Second World War," Journal of Contemporary History, 33 (October 1998): 531-545.  

Barry Godfrey, "Law, Factory Discipline and 'Theft': The Impact of the Factory on Workplace Appropriation in the Mid to Late Nineteenth-Century Yorkshire," British Journal of Criminology, 39 (1999): 56-71.  

R.H. Helmholz, "Magna Carta and the Ius Commune," University of Chicago Law Review, 66 (Spring 1999): 297 ff. 

Andrew H. Hershey, "'Justice and Bureaucracy': The English Royal Writ and '1258,'" English Historical Review, 113 (September 1998): 829-851.  

John V. Orth, "Did Sir Edward Coke Mean What He Said?," Constitutional Commentary, 16 (Spring 1999): 33 ff.  

Kunal M. Parker, "'A Corporation of Superior Prostitutes': Anglo-Indian Legal Conceptions of Temple Dancing Girls, 1800-1914," Modern Asian Studies, (July 1998): 559-633.  

Jonathan Rose, "Medieval Attitudes Toward the Legal Profession: The Past as Prologue," Stetson Law Review, 28 (Fall 1998): 345 ff. 

Jonathan Rose, "The Legal Profession in Medieval England: A History of Regulation," Syracuse Law Review, 48 (1998): 1 ff. 

Richard J. Ross, "The Memorial Culture of Early Modern English Lawyers: Memory as Keyword, Shelter, and Identity, 1560-1640," Yale Journal of Law and Humanities, 10 (Summer 1998): 229 ff.  

David Skuy, "Macaulay and the Indian Penal Code of 1862: The Myth of the Inherent Superiority and Modernity of the English Legal System Compared to India's Legal System in the Nineteenth Century," Modern Asian Studies, (July 1998): 513-557. 

Canadian  

Beth Bilson, "'Prudence Rather than Valor': Legal Education in Saskatchewan, 1908-1923," Saskatchewan Law Review, 61 (1998): 341 ff.  

Ernest Clarke and Jim Phillips, "'The Course of Law Cannot be Stopped': The Aftermath of the Cumberland Rebellion in the Civil Courts of Nova Scotia," Dalhousie Law Journal, 21 (Fall 1998): 440 ff.  

Christopher English, "Atlantic Legal History: Collective Violence in Ferryland District, Newfoundland in 1788," Dalhousie Law Journal, 21 (Fall 1998): 475 ff. 

William H. Laurence, "Atlantic Legal History: Acquiring the Law: The Personal Law Library of William Young, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1835," Dalhousie Law Journal, 21 (Fall 1998): 480 ff.  

P.G. McHugh, "The Common-Law Status of Colonies and Aboriginal 'Rights': How Lawyers and Historians Treat the Past," Saskatchewan Law Review, 61 (1998): 393 ff. 

Kent McNeil, "Aborignal Rights in Canada: From Title to Land Territorial Sovereignty," Tulsa Journal of Comparative and International Law, 5 (Spring 1998): 253 ff.  

Cindy Ricco, "Married Women and Property Law in Victorian Ontario," Saskatchewan Law Review, 61 (1998): 591 ff. 

Continental  

Natasha L. Minsker, "'I Have a Dream--Never Forget': When Rhetoric becomes Law, A Comparison of the Jurisprudence of Race in Germany and the United States," Harvard Blackletter Journal, 14 (Spring 1998): 113 ff.  

International  

Vahakn N. Dadrian, "The Historical and Legal Interconnections between the Armenian Genocide and the Jewish Holocaust: From Impunity to Retributive Justice," Yale Journal of International Law, 23 (Summer 1998): 503 ff.  

Joy Gordon, "The Concept of Human Rights: The History and Meaning of Its Politicization," Brooklyn Journal of International Law, 23 (1998): 689 ff. 

Surya P. Subedi, "Recognition of Governments: Legal Doctrine and State Practice, 1815-1955," Political Studies, 47 (March 1999): 203ff. 

Latin America  

Estelle T. Lau, "Can Money Whiten? Exploring Race Practice in Colonial Venezuela and its Implications for Contemporary Race Discourse," Michigan Journal of Race and Law, 3 (Spring 1998): 417 ff.  

Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, "Outsiders into Insiders: The Doctrine of Prior Appropriation and Indigenous Communities in Colonial Puebla, Mexico," Oklahoma City University Law Review, 23 (Spring/Summer 1998): 93 ff.  

Lee M. Penyak, "Safe Harbors and Compulsory Custody: Casas de Depositios in Mexico, 1750-1865," Hispanic American Historical Review, 79 (February 1999): 83-99. 

Middle East  

Bernard K. Freamon, "Slavery, Freedom, and the Doctrine of Consensus in Islamic Jurisprudence," Harvard Human Rights Journal, 11 (Spring 1998): 1 ff.  

Assaf Likhovski, "The Invention of 'Hebrew Law' in Mandatory Palestine," American Journal of Comparative Law, 46 (Spring 1998): 339 ff. 

United States 

Anthony V. Baker, "'With One Voice' Wisconsin's Legislative Contribution to the National Slavery Debate, 1848 to 1861," Wisconsin Law Review, (1998): 777 ff.  

Mary Becker, "The Sixties Shift to Formal Equality and the Courts: An Argument for Pragmatism and Politics," William and Mary Law Review, 40 (October 1998): 209 ff.  

Michael R. Belknap, "The Warren Court and the Vietnam War: The Limits of Legal Liberalism," Georgia Law Review, 33 (Fall 1998): 65 ff.  

Michael Les Benedict, "From Our Archives: A New Look at the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson," Political Science Quarterly, 113 (Fall 1998): 493-511.  

David Blumberg, "High Court Study: Influence of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on State High Court Decision Making, 1982-1997: A Study in Horizontal Federalism," Albany Law Review, 61 (1998): 1583 ff.  

Bradley C. Bobertz, "The Brandeis Gambit: The Making of America's 'First Freedom,' 1909-1931," William and Mary Law Review, 40 (February 1999): 557 ff. 

Stephen B. Bright, "Can Judicial Independence Be Attained in the South? Overcoming History, Elections, and Misperceptions about the Role of the Judiciary," Georgia State University Law Review, 14 (July 1998): 817 ff.  

Alfred L. Brophy, "Humanity, Utility, and Logic in Southern Legal Thought: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Vision in Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp," Boston University Law Review, 78 (October 1998): 1113 ff. 

Stephen Carter and Merle H. Weiner, "'Civilizing' the Next Generation: A Response to Civilty: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy," Howard Law Journal, 42 (Winter 1999): 241 ff. 

Richard G. del Castillo, "Manifest Destiny: The Mexican-American War and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo," Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas, 5 (Spring 1998): 31 ff. 

Gabriel J. Chin, "Segregation's Last Stronghold: Race Discrimination and the Constitutional Law of Immigration," UCLA Law Review, 46 (October 1998): 1 ff. 

James J. Connolly et al, "Alcoholism and Angst in the Life and Work of Karl Llewellyn," Ohio Northern Law Review, 24 (1998): 45 ff. 

Robert D. Cooter and Wolfgang Fifkentscher, "Indian Common Law: The Role of Custom in Indian Tribal Courts (Part I of II)," American Journal of Comparative Law, 46 (Spring 1998): 287 ff.  

Greg Costa, "John Marshall, the Sedition Act, and Free Speech in the Early Republic," Texas Law Review, 77 (March 1999): 1011 ff. 

David P. Currie, "The Constitution in Congress: The Most Endangered Branch, 1801-1805," Wake Forest Law Review, 33 (Summer 1998): 219 ff.  

Michael K. Curtis, "Lincoln, Vallandigham, and Anti-War Speech in the Civil War," William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 7 (December 1998): 105 ff. 

Adrienne D. Davis, "The Private Law of Race and Sex: An Antebellum Perspective," Stanford Law Review, 51 (January 1999): 221-288. 

Allison M. Dussias, "Squaw Drudges, Farm Wives, and Dann Sisters' Last Stand: American Indian Women's Resistance to Domestication and the Denial of their Property Rights," North Carolina Law Review, 77 (January 1999): 637 ff. 

Daniel R. Ernst, "Law and American Political Development, 1877-1938," Reviews in American History, 26 (March 1998): 205-219. 

William N. Eskeridge Jr., "Textualism and Original Understanding: Should the Supreme Court Read the Federalist but not Statutory Legislative History?," George Washington Law Review, 66 (June/August 1998): 1301 ff.  

Roger A. Fairfax, "A Tribute to Charkes Hamilton Houston: Wielding the Double-Edged Sword: Charles Hamilton Houston and Judicial Activism in the Age of Legal Realism," Harvard Blackletter Journal, 14 (Spring 1998): 17 ff.  

Cynthia R. Farina, "Panel V: Undoing the New Deal Through the New Presidentialism," Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, 22 (Fall 1998): 227 ff. 

Ann Fidler, "'Till You Understand Them in the Their Principal Features': Observations on Form and Function in Nineteenth-Century American Law Books," The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 92 (December 1998): 427-442.  

William B. Fisch and Richard S. Kay, "Section IV: The Constitutionalization of Law in the United States," American Journal of Comparative Law, 46 (1998): 437 ff.  

Catherine L. Fisk, "Removing the 'Fuel of Interest' from the 'Fire of Genius': Law and the Employee-Inventor, 1830-1930," University of Chicago Law Review, 65 (Fall 1998): 1127 ff.  

Barry Freidman, "Things Forgotten in the Debate Over Judicial Independence," Georgia State University Law Review, 14 (July 1998): 737 ff. 

Barry Friedman and Scott B. Smith, "The Sedimentary Constitution," University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 147 (November 1998): 1 ff. 

Dan Freidman, "The History, Development, and Interpretation of the Maryland Declaration of Rights," Temple Law Review, 71 (Fall 1998): 637 ff.  

Lawrence M. Friedman, "Law Reviews and Legal Scholarship: Some Comments," Denver University Law Review, 75 (1998): 661 ff. 

James H. Frey, "Federal Involvement in U.S. Gaming Regulation," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (1998): 138-152.  

Ariela J. Gross, "Litigating Whiteness: Trials of Racial Determination in the Nineteenth-Century South," Yale Law Journal, 108 (October 1998): 109 ff. 

Roger C. Hartley, "Taft-Hartley Symposium: The First Fifty Years: Reconceiving the Role of Section 8 (B) (1) (A), 1947-1997: An Essay on Collective Empowerment and the Public Good," Catholic University Law Review, 47 (Spring 1998): 825 ff. 

Edward Hartnett, "A 'Uniform and Entire' Constitution: Or, What if Madison had Won?," Constitutional Commentary, 15 (Summer 1998): 251 ff.  

Thomas R. Hensley and Scott P. Johnson, "Unanimity on the Rehnquist Court," Akron Law Review, 31 (1998): 387 ff. 

Helen Hershkoff, "Welfare Devolution and State Constitutions," Fordham Law Review, 4 (March 1999): 1403 ff.  

James L. Hunt, "Ensuring the Incalculable Benefits of Railroads: The Origins of Liability for Neglience in Georgia," Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, 7 (Summer 1998): 375 ff. 

J. Gordon Hylton, "The Wisconsin Lawyer in the Gilded Age: A Demographic Profile," Wisconsin Law Review (1998): 791 ff. 

Eric M. Jensen and Jonathan L. Entin, "Commandeering, the Tenth Amendment, and the Federal Requistion Power: New York v. United States Revisited," Constitutional Commentary, 15 (Summer 1998): 355 ff.  

Laura Kalman, "The Power of Biography: Pnina Lahav, Judgement in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century," Law and Social Inquiry, 23 (Spring 1998): 479 ff. 

Yasuhide Kawashima, "The Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians, 1620-1691," Oklahoma City University Law Review, 23 (Spring/Summer 1998): 115 ff. 

Deseriee Kennedy, "Radicalism, Racism, and Affirmative Action: In Defense of a Historical Approach," Capital University Law Review, 27 (1998): 61 ff.  

Michael J. Klarman, "What's So Great About Constitutionalism?," Northwestern University Law Review, 93 (Fall 1998): 145 ff. 

Larry D. Kramer, "But When Exactly was Judically-Enforced Federalism 'Born' in the First Place?," Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, 22 (Fall 1998): 123 ff.  

Larry D. Kramer, "Madison's Audience," Harvard Law Review, 112 (January 1999): 611-679.  

John R. Kroger, "Supreme Court Equity, 1789-1835, and the History of American Judging," Houston Law Review, 34 (Spring 1998): 1425 ff. 

Ronald J. Krotoszynski, "The Chrysanthemum, the Sword, and the First Amendment: Disintangling Culture, Community, and Freedom of Expression," Wisconsin Law Review, (1998): 905 ff.  

Michele Landis, "'Let Me Next Time Be "Tried By Fire"': Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State, 1789-1874," Northwestern University Law Review, (Spring 1998): 967 ff. 

Allison H. Lee et al, "Judge L. Warren Jones and the Supreme Court of Dixie," Louisiana Law Review, 59 (Fall 1998): 209 ff. 

Lawrence Lessig, "Textualism and Federalism: Understanding Federalism's Text," George Washington Law Review, 66 (June/August 1998): 1218 ff.  

Daniel L. Levy, "A Legal History of Irrational Exuberance," Case Western Law Review, 48 (Summer 1998): 799 ff.  

Stephen J. Lubben, "Chief Justice Traynor's Contract Jurisprudence and the Free Law Dilemma: Nazism, the Judiciary, and California's Contract Law," Southern California Interdisiciplinary Law Journal, 7 (Summer 1998): 81 ff. 

Guadalupe T. Luna, "Chicana/Chicano Land Tenure in the Agrarian Domain: On the Edge of a 'Naked Knife,'" Michigan Journal of Law and Race, 4 (Fall 1998): 39 ff.  

Ira C. Lupu, "Textualism and Original Understanding: Time, the Supreme Court, and the Federalist," George Washington Law Review, 66 (June/August 1998): 1324 ff. 

Deborah Malamud, "Engineering the Middle Class: Class Line-Drawing in New Deal Hours Legislation," Michigan Law Review, 96 (August 1998): 2212 ff. 

Robert W. Malmsheimer and Donald W. Floyd, "Fishing Rights in Nontidal, Navigable New York State Rivers: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective," Albany Law Review, 61 (1998): 147 ff.  

John F. Manning, "Textualism and Original Understanding: Textualism and the Role of the Federalist in Constitutional Adjudication," George Washington Law Review, 66 (June/August 1998): 1337 ff. 

Eric C. Martini, "Wisconsin's Milldam Act: Drawing New Lessons from an Old Law," Wisconsin Law Review, (1998): 1305 ff. 

Michael W. McConnell, "Textualism and Democratic Legitimacy: Textualism and the Dead Hand of the Past," George Washington Law Review, 66 (June/August 1998): 1127 ff.  

Michael W. McConnell, "Tradition and Constitutionalism Before the Constituton," University of Illinois Law Review, (1998): 173 ff. 

Robert H. McLaughlin, "The Antiquities Act of 1906: Politics and the Framing of an American Anthropology and Archaeology," Oklahoma City University Law Review, 23 (Spring/Summer 1998): 61 ff.  

Mary B. McManamon, "The History of the Civil Procedure Course: A Study in Evolving Pedagogy," Arizona State Law Journal, 30 (Summer 1998): 397 ff. 

William E. Nelson, "The Integrity of the Judiciary in the Twentieth-Century New York," Rutgers Law Journal, 51 (Fall 1998): 1 ff. 

William E. Nelson, "Two Models of Welfare: Private Charity Versus Public Duty," Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, 7 (Fall 1998): 295 ff.  

Charles L. Nier III, "Sweet are the Uses of Adversity: The Civil Rights Activism of Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander," Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review, 8 (Fall 1998): 59 ff.  

Molly T. O'Brien, "Justice John Marshall Harlan as Prophet: The Plessy Dissenter's Color Blind Constitution," William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 6 (Summer 1998): 753 ff. 

James Oldham, "The History of The Special (Struck) Jury in the United States and its Relation to Voir Dire Practices, the Reasonable Cross-Section Requirement, and Peremptory Challenges," William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 6 (Summer 1998): 623 ff. 

Ajit V. Pai, "Congress and the Constitution: The Legal Tender Act of 1862," Oregon Law Review, 77 (Summer 1998): 535 ff. 

Joel R. Paul, "The Geopolitical Constitution: Executive Expediency and Executive Agreements," California Law Review, 86 (July 1998): 671 ff.  

Steven Penney, "Theories of Confession Admissibility: A Historical View," American Journal of Criminal Law, 25 (Spring 1998); 309 ff. 

David A. Pepper, "Against Legalism: Rebutting an Anachronistic Account of 1937," Marquette Law Review, 82 (Fall 1998): 63 ff. 

Juan F. Perea, "The Black/White Binary Paradigm of Race: The 'Normal Science' of American Racial Thought," California Law Review, 85 (October 1997): 1213-1258.  

Ellen A. Peters, "Capacity and Respect: A Perspective on the Historic Role of the State Courts in the Federal System," New York University Law Review, (October 1998): 1065 ff.  

Michael J. Phillips, "The Progressiveness of the Lochner Court," Denver University Law Review, 75 (1998): 453 ff.  

Stewart G. Pollock, "Celebrating Fifty Years of Judicial Reform under the 1947 New Jersey Constitution," Rutgers Law Journal, (Summer 1998): 675 ff. 

Joseph A. Ranney, "'Absolute Common Ground': The Four Eras of Assimilation in Wisconsin Education Law," Wisconsin Law Review (1998): 791 ff. 

Joseph A. Ranney, "Shaping Debate, Shaping Society: Three Wisconsin Chief Justices and Their Counterparts," Marquette Law Review, 81 (Summer 1998): 923 ff.  

Peter L. Reich, "Western Courts and the Privatization of Hispanic Mineral Rights Since 1850: An Alchemy of Title," Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, 23 (1998): 57 ff.  

Elizabeth Reis, "The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History," Journal of American History, 85 (September 1998): 652 ff. 

Eduardo C. Robreno, "Learning to do Justice: An Essay on the Development of the Lower Federal Courts in the Early Years of the Republic," Rutgers Law Journal, 29 (Spring 1998): 555 ff.  

Ediberto Roman, "The Alien-Citizen Paradox and other Consequences of U.S. Colonialism," Florida State University Law Review, 26 (Fall 1998): 1 ff. 

Victor C. Romero, "Broadening Our World: Citizens and Immigrants of Color in America," Capital University Law Review, 13 (1998): 689 ff. 

William G. Ross, "The Constitutional Significance of the Scottsboro Cases," Cumberland Law Review, 28 (1997/1998): 591 ff. 

Jane L. Scarborough, "What if the Butchers in the Slaughter-House Cases Had Won?: An Exercise in 'Counterfactual' Doctrine," Maine Law Review, 50 (1998): 211 ff.  

Margo Schlanger, "Injured Women before Common Law Courts, 1860-1930," Harvard Women's Law Journal, 9 (Spring 1998): 79 ff. 

Michael P. Schutt, "Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Decline of the American Lawyer: Social Engineering, Religion, and the Search for Professional Indentity," Rutgers Law Journal, 30 (Fall 1998): 143 ff.  

Micheal Selmi, "The Life of Bakke: An Affirmative Action Retrospective," Georgetown Law Journal, 87 (April 1999): 981 ff. 

Suzanna Sherry, "Judicial Independence: Playing Politics with the Constitution," Georgia State University Law Review, 14 (July 1998): 795 ff.  

Andrew M. Siegel, "'To Learn and Make Respectable Hereafter': The Litchfield Law School in Cultural Context," New York University Law Review, 73 (December 1998): 1978 ff.  

Steven Siegel, "The Constitution and Private Government: Toward the Recognition of Constitutional Rights in Private Residential Communities Fifty Years after Marsh v. Alabama," William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 6 (Spring 1998): 461 ff. 

J. Clay Smith Jr. and E. Desmond Hogan, "Remembered Hero, Forgotten Contribution: Charles Hamilton Houston, Legal Realism, and Labor Law," Harvard Blackletter Journal, 14 (Spring 1998): 1 ff.  

Logan S. Stafford, "Judicial Coup d'Etat: Mandamus, Quo Warranto and the Original Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Arkansas," University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Journal, 20 (Summer 1998): 891 ff.  

G. Alan Tarr, "Models and Fashions in State Constitutionalism," Wisconsin Law Review, (1998): 729 ff.  

Gregory R. Thorson, "Divided Government and the Passage of Partisan Legislation, 1947-1990," Political Research Quarterly, 51 (September 1998): 751-764. 

Bernard R. Trujillo, "The Wisconsin Exemption Clause Debate of 1846: An Historical Perspective on the Regulation of Debt," Wisconsin Law Review, (1998): 747 ff. 

Robert Wernick, "Chief Justice Marshall Takes the Law in Hand," Smithsonian, 29 (November 1998): 156-173.  

G. Edward White, "The Transformation of the Constitutional Regime of Foreign Relations," Virginia Law Review, 85 (February 1999): 1 ff. 

Jonathan F. Witt, "Making the Fifth: The Constitutionalization of American Self-Incrimination Doctrine, 1791-1903," Texas Law Review, 77 (March 1999): 825 ff.  

Gary K. Wolinetz, "New Jersey Slavery and the Law," Rutgers Law Review, 50 (Summer 1998): 2227 ff.  

Books

Africa  

Martin Chanock, Law, Custom, and Social Order: The Colonial Experience in Malawi and Zambia (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1998).  

Asia  

Kathryn Bernhardt, Women and Property in China: 960-1949 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999).  

Nighat M. Chishti, Constitutional Development in Afghanistan (Karachi: Royal Book Company, 1998).  

Ranjana Kaul, Constitutional Development in the Indian Princely States (New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1998). 

Shoichi Koseki, The Birth of Japan's Postwar Constitution (Boulder: Westview Press, 1998).  

Brij V. Lal, Another Way: The Politics of Constitutional Reform in Post-Coup Fiji (Canberra: NCDS Asia Pacific Press, 1998). 

Stanley B. Lubman, Bird in a Cage: Legal Reform in China After Mao (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999).  

Melissa A. Macauley, Social Power and Legal Culture: Litigation Masters in Late Imperial China (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998).  

Erin Moore, Gender, Law, and Resistance in India (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998).  

Radhika Singha, A Despotism of Law: Crime and Justice in Early Colonial India (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).  

Chandra Sudhir, Enslaved Daugthers: Colonialism, Law and Women's Rights (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998). 

T'ai-sheng Wang, Legal Reform in Taiwan under Japanese Rule, 1895-1945: The Reception of Western Law (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999).  

Australia  

Bain Attwood, The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights (St. Leonards, N.S.W: Allen & Unwin, 1999).  

John Barwick, March to Federation (Port Melbourne: Heinemann, 1999).  

Ian Callinan, Law, Society and Culture at the Turn of the Century (Australia: Callinan, 1998).  

British  

John H. Baker, Monuments of Endless Labours: English Canonists and their Work, 1300-1900 (London: Hambledon Press with the Ecclesiastical Law Society, 1998).  

Peter Bartlett, The Poor Law of Lunacy: The Administration of Pauper Lunatics in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England (New York: Leicester University Press, 1999). 

Christopher W. Brooks, Lawyers, Litigation, and English Society since 1450 (London: Hambledon Press, 1998).  

Jon Bush and Alain Wijffels, Learning and Law: The Teaching of British Law, 1150-1900 (London: Hambledon, 1999). 

Lloyd Bonfield and Lawrence Poos, Select Cases in Manorial Courts, 1250-1550: Property and Family Law (London: Selden Society, 1998).  

David J.A. Cairns, Advocacy and the Making of the Adversial Criminal Trial, 1800-1865 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998). 

Daniel R. Coquillette, The Anglo-American Legal Heritage: Introductory Materials (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1999).  

Randall Craig, Promising Language: Betrothal in Victorian Law and Fiction (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999).  

Thomas M. Curley, Sir Robert Chambers: Law, Literature, and Empire in the Age of Johnson (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998).  

Charles Duggan, Decretals and the Creation of "New Law" in the Twelfth Century: Judges, Judgements, Equity and Law (Aldershot: Variorum, 1998). 

David Englander, Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Britain: From Chadwick to Booth, 1834-1914 (London: Addison Wesley Longman, 1998). 

Robin Fleming, Domesday Book and the Law: Society and Legal Custom in Early Medieval England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).  

Patrick M. Geoghegan, 1798 & the Irish Bar (Dublin: The Bar Council of Ireland, 1998).  

Netta M. Goldsmith, The Worst of Crimes: Homosexuality and the Law in Eighteenth-Century London (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998). 

Richard F. Green, A Crisis of Truth: Literature and Law in Ricardian England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999). 

Barbara Hanawalt, Of Good and Ill Repute: Gender and Social Control in Medieval England (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998). 

Daniel A. Hearn, Legal Executions in New England: A Comprehensive Reference, 1622-1960 (Jefferson N.C.: McFarland, 1999). 

Cynthia B. Herrup, Crimes Most Dishonorable: Sex, Law, and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).  

Edmund Heward, A Victorian Law Reformer: A Life of Lord Selborne (Little London: Barry Rose Law Publishers, 1998).  

Eric Jenkins, Workhouse Tales: True Stories of the Victorian Poor Law (Rushden: Cordelia, 1998).  

Kathleen Jones, Lunacy, Law, and Conscience, 1744-1845: The Social History of the Care of the Insane (London: Routledge, 1998). 

Nicola Lacey, Reconstructing Criminal Law: Critical Perspectives on Crime and the Criminal Process (London: Butterworths, 1999). 

Barbara Leckie, Culture and Adultery: The Novel, the Newspaper, and the Law, 1857-1914 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999).  

Robert Meakin, Charity in the NHS: Policy and Practice (Bristol: Jordons, 1998).  

R.A. Meliken, John Scott, Lord Eldon, 1751-1838: The Duty of Loyalty (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999). 

Gwenda Morgan, Rogues, Thieves, and the Rule of Law: The Problem of Law Enforcement in North-East England, 1718-1800 (London: UCL Press, 1998).  

Anthony Musson, The Evolution of English Justice: Law, Politics, and Society in the Fourteenth Century (New York: St. Martins Press, 1999). 

Cynthia J. Neville, Violence, Custom and Law: The Anglo-Scottish Border in the Later Middle Ages (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998).  

Michael O'Siochru, Confederate Ireland, 1642-1649: A Constitutional and Political Analysis (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999). 

Patrick Polden, A History of the County Court, 1846-1971 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999).  

Dieter Polloczek, Literature and Legal Discourse: Equity and Ethics from Sterne to Conrad (Cambridg: Cambridge University Press, 1999). 

K.J.M. Smith, Lawyers, Legislators, and Theorists: Developments in English Criminal Jurisprudence, 1800-1957 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998).  

Timothy Stretton, Women and Waging Law in Elizabethan England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). 

Daye Thurbin, Crime and Punishment: A Critical Survey of the Origins and Evolution of the Common Law (Long Ditton: Idle Press, 1998).  

Patrick Wormald, The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999).  

Canadian  

Patrick Hanafin and Melissa S. Williams, Identity, Rights, and Constitutional Transformation (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999).  

Sidney L. Harring, White Man's Law: Native People in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Jurisprudence (Toronto: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 1998).  

Jim Hornby, In the Shadow of the Gallows: Criminal Law and Capital Punishment in Prince Edward Island (Charlottestown: Institute of Island Studies, 1998). 

Paul M. Romney, Getting it Wrong: How Canadians Forgot their Past and Imperiled Confederation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999). 

Comparative 

Faye Boland, Anglo-American Insanity Defence Reform: The War between Law and Medicine (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999). 

Scott Gordon, Controlling the State: Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999).  

Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns, History, Memory, and the Law (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999). 

Petrus C. Spierenburg, Men and Violence: Gender, Honor, and Rituals in Modern Europe and America (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998).  

Javier Martinez-Torron, Anglo-American Law and Canon Law: Canonical Roots of the Common Law Tradition (Berlin: Duncker & Humbolt, 1998). 

Christopher E.S. Warburton, Slaves, Serfs, and Workers: Labor under the Law (Pittsburgh: Dorrance Publishing, 1998).  

Alan Watson, Sources of Law, Legal Change, and Ambiguity (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998). 

Continental  

Uta-Renate Blumenthal, Papal Reform and Canon Law in the 11th and 12th Centuries (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998). 

Bernard Chantebout, The French Constitution: Its Origin and Development in the Fifth Republic (Baton Rouge: Center of Civil Law Studies, 1998).  

Grainne DeBurca and P.P. Craig, The Evolution of EU Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).  

Daniel J. Elazar, Covenant and Civil Society: The Constitutional Matrix of Modern Democracy (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 1998). 

Paul W. Goldschmidt, Pornography and Democratization: Legislating Obscenity in Post-Communist Russia (Boulder: Westview Press, 1999). 

Barbara Hanawalt and David Wallace, Medieval Crime and Social Control (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999). 

Susan E. Heuman, Kistiakovsky: The Struggle for National and Constitutional Rights in the Last Years of Tsarism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998).  

Martha C. Howell, The Marriage Exchange: Property, Social Place, and Gender in the Cities of the Low Countries (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998).  

Jacek Jedruich, Constitutions, Elections, and Legislatures of Poland, 1493-1993: A Guide to their History (New York: Hippocrene Books, 1998). 

A.W. Lintott, The Constitution of the Roman Republic (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999).  

Maurizio Lupoi, The Origins of the European Legal Order (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999).  

James L. Muldoon, Canon Law, World Order, and the Expansion of Europe (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998).  

Tim Murphy and Patrick M. Towney, Ireland's Evolving Constitution, 1937-1997: Collected Essays (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1998). 

W.N. Osborough, Studies in Irish Legal History (Dublin: Four Courts, 1999).  

Hanne Peterson, Love and Law in Europe (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998).  

Gianna Pomata, Contracting a Cure: Patients, Healers, and the Law in Early Modern Bologna (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1998). 

Rudolf Schlesinger, Soviet Legal Theory: Its Social Background and Development (London: Routledge, 1998).  

Peter Stein, Roman Law in European History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).  

Michael Stolleis, The Law Under the Swastika: Studies on Legal History in Germany (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998). 

International  

Kinji Akashi, Cornelius Van Bynkershoek: His Role in the History of International Law (London: Kluwer Law International, 1998).  

Francis A. Boyle, Foundations of World Order: The Legalist Approach to International Relations, 1898-1921 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999).  

Linda Frey, The History of Diplomatic Immunity (Columbus OH: Ohio State University Press, 1999).  

J.R. Hill, The Prizes of War: The Naval Prize System in the Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815 (Stroud: Sutton Association with the Royal Naval Museum, 1998). 

Christopher Rossi, Broken Chain of Being: James Scott Brown and the Origins of Modern International Law (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1998). 

Latin America 

Jeremy Adelman, Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999).  

Robert H. Jackson, Race, Caste, and Status: Indians in Colonial Spanish America (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999). 

Ivan Jaksic, Life Without the King: Centralists, Federalists, and Constitutional Monarchists in the Making of Spanish American Republics, 1808-1830 (Notre Dame: The Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, 1998).  

Middle East  

Haim Gerber, Islamic Law and Culture, 1600-1840 (Leiden: Brill, 1999).  

Masoud Kamali, Revolutionary Iran: Civil Society and State in the Modernization Process (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998). 

Victor H. Matthews et al, Gender and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998).  

Judith E. Tucker, In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).  

United States  

Henry J. Abraham, Justices, Presidents, and Senators: A History of the U.S. Supreme Court Appointments from Washington to Clinton (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999).  

Rodolfo Acuna, Sometimes There is No Other Side: Chicanos and the Myth of Equality (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998). 

American Law Institute, The American Law Institute: Seventy-fifth Anniversary, 1923-1998 (Philadelpia: The American Law Institute, 1998). 

George Anastapio, Abraham Lincoln: A Constitutional Biography (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999). 

Brad Asher, Beyond the Reservation: Indians, Settlers, and the Law in Washington Territory, 1853-1889 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999).  

James B. Atleson, Labor and the Wartime State: Labor Relations and Law During World War II (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998). 

Frankie Y. Bailey, 'Law Never Here': A Social History of African American Response to Issues of Crime and Justice (Westport: Praeger, 1999).  

Norma Basch, Framing American Divorce: From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999). 

Elizabeth K. Bauer, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1790-1860 (Union N.J.: Lawboook Exchange, 1999).  

Herman Belz, Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism, and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era (New York: Fordham University Press, 1998). 

Stanley G. Benjamin, South Tucson, Arizona, Police Department, 1936-1998 (Tucson: Benjamin, 1998).  

Joel Best, Controlling Vice: Regulating Brothel Prostitution in St. Paul, 1865-1883 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998). 

William J. Billingsley, Communists in Carolina: Political Culture and the Public University in North Carolina, 1962-1970 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999).  

Randall W. Bland, The Black Robe and the Bald Eagle: The Supreme Court and the Foreign Policy of the United States, 1789-1961 (San Francisco: Austin & Winfield, 1999).  

Haig A. Bosmajian, The Freedom Not to Speak (New York: New York University Press, 1999).  

Mark E. Brandon, Free in the World: American Slavery and Constitutional Failure (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998). 

Pamela Brandwein, Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Supreme Court and the Production of Historical Truth (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999).  

Candice L. Bredbenner, A Nationality of Her Own: Women, Marriage, and the Law of Citizenship (Berkeley: Univeristy of California Press, 1998). 

Samuel Bryan, The Letters of Centinel: Attacks on the U.S. Constitution, 1787-1788 (Ardmore, PA: Fifth Season Press, 1998). 

William H. Bryson, Essays on Legal Education in Nineteenth Century Virginia (Biuffalo: W.S. Hein, 1998).  

Paul Burstein, Discrimination, Jobs, and Politics: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity in the United States since the New Deal (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998). 

Norman F. Cantor, Imagining the Law: Common Law and the Foundations of the American Legal System (New York: Harper Perennial, 1999). 

Stephen L. Carter, The Dissent of the Governed: A Meditation on Law, Religion, and Loyalty (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998). 

Gary L. Cheatham, "Slavery All of the Time or Not at All": The Wyandotte Constitution Debate, 1859-1861 (Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, 1998).  

Patrick T. Conley, Liberty and Justice: A History of Law and Lawyers in Rhode Island, 1636-1998 (East Providence R.I.: Rhode Island Publications Society, 1998).  

Saul Cornell, The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999). 

Clayton E. Cramer, Concealed Weapon Laws of the Early Republic: Duelling, Southern Violence, and Moral Reform (Westport: Praeger Press, 1999). 

David Delaney, Race, Place, and the Law, 1836-1948 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998).  

Alan Derickson, Black Lung: Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998).  

Virginia G. Drachman, Sisters in Law: Women Lawyers in Modern American History (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998). 

Angus Duncan, History, Science, the Law, and Watershed Recovery in the Grande Ronde: A Case Study (Cornvallis OR: Oregon Sea Grant, 1998).  

Masayo Duus, The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999). 

Harris I. Effross, Juries, Jails and Justice: The Sheriff's Office in New Jersey since the Seventeenth Century (Metuchen N.J.: Upland Press, 1998).  

Stanley L. Engerman, ed., Terms of Labor: Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999). 

William N. Fenton, The Great Law and the Longhouse: A Political History of the Iroquois Confederacy (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998).  

Ella Forbes, But We Have No Country: The 1851 Christiana, Pennsylvania Resistance (Cherry Hill, NJ: Africana Homestead Legacy, 1998). 

Scott D. Gerber, Seriatim: The Supreme Court before John Marshall (New York: New York University Press, 1998). 

Nan Goodman, Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-century America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998).  

Andrew Gyory, Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998). 

Stephen P. Halbrook, Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Rights to Bear Arms, 1866-1876 (Westport: Praeger, 1998).  

Timothy Hall, Separating Church and State: Roger Williams and Religious Liberty (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998). 

Linda R. Hirshman, Hard Bargains: The Politics of Sex (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).  

Morton J. Horwitz, The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice: A Critical Issue (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998). 

David M. Hudson, Along Racial Lines: Consequences of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (New York: P. Lang, 1998).  

Timothy S. Huebner, The Southern Judicial Tradition: State Judges and Sectional Distinctiveness, 1790-1890 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999).  

Harold M. Hyman, Craftsmanship and Character: A History of the Vinson & Elkins Law Firm of Houston, 1917-1997 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998).  

Peter H. Irons, A People's History of the Supreme Court (New York: Viking, 1999).  

Sydney V. James, John Clarke and His Legacies: Religion and Law in Colonial Rhode Island, 1638-1750 (University Park PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999).  

Shawn E. Kantor, Politics and Property Rights: The Closing of the Open Range in the Postbellum South (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1998). 

Linda K. Kerber, No Constitutional Right to be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998). 

Douglas W. Kmiec, The American Constitutional Order: History, Cases, and Philosophy (Cincinnati: Anderson Publishing Co., 1998).  

Nicholas N. Kittrie and Eldon D. Wedlock, The Tree of Liberty: A Documentary History of Rebellion and Political Crime in America (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1999).  

Laura H. Korobin, Criminal Conversations: Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories of Adultery (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998). 

Winston Langley and Vivian Fox, Women's Right in the United States: A Documentary History (Westport: Praeger Press, 1998). 

Michael C. LeMay and Elliott R. Barkan, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Laws and Issues: A Documentary History (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999).  

Fred Leeson, Rose City Justice: A Legal History of Portland, Oregon (Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1998). 

Amy Leibowitz, Law and Order in the 20th Century (San Mateo: Bluewood Press, 1998).  

Library of Congress, A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873 (Washington D.C: Library of Congress, 1998). 

Donald S. Lutz, Colonial Origins of the American Constitution: A Documentary History (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1998). 

Joseph M. Lynch, Negotiating the Constitution: The Earliest Debates Over Original Intent (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999).  

Waldo E. Martin, Brown v. Board of Education: A Brief History with Documents (Boston: Bedford Books, 1998). 

Buckner F. Melton, The First Impeachment: The Constitution's Framers and the Case of Senator William Blount (Macon: Mercer University Press, 1998).  

Diane H. Miller, Freedom to Differ: The Shaping of the Gay and Lesbian Struggle for Civil Rights (New York: New York University Press, 1998). 

Wayne D. Moore, Constitutional Rights and Powers of the People (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998).  

Judy Monroe, The Nineteenth Amendment: Women's Right to Vote (Springfield: Enslow Publishers, 1998).  

Regina M. Morantz-Sanchez, Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-century Brooklyn (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999). 

David M. O'Brien, Constitutional Law and Politics (New York: Norton, 1999).  

Gail W. O'Brien, The Color of the Law: Race, Violence, and Justice in the Post-World War II South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999). 

David R. Papke, The Pullman Case: The Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial America (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999). 

John I. Patrick, Constitutional Debates on Freedom of Religion: A Documentary History (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999).  

Linda Przbyszewski, The Republic According to John Marshall Harlan (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999). 

William Rehnquist, All the Laws But One: Civil Liberties in Wartime (New York: Knopf, 1998).  

George Robb and Nancy Erber, Disorder in the Court: Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century (New York: New York University Press, 1999). 

Heinrich A. Rommen, The Natural Law: A Study in Legal and Social History and Philosophy (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1998). 

Laura J. Scalia, America's Jeffersonian Experiment: Remaking State Constitutions, 1820-1850 (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1999).  

Elizabeth Schleichert, The Thirteenth Amendment: Ending Slavery (Springfield NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1998).  

James D. Schmidt, Free to Work: Labor Law, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, 1815-1880 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998). 

Bernard Schwartz, The Burger Court: Counter-Revolution or Confirmation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998). 

Mortimer N.S. Sellers, The Sacred Fire of Liberty: Republicanism, Liberalism, and the Law (New York: New York University Press, 1998).  

John E. Semonche, Keeping the Faith: A Cultural History of the U.S. Supreme Court (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998). 

Steve Sheppard, The History of Legal Education in the United States: Commentaries and Primary Sources (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1999). 

J. Clay Smith, Rebels in Law: Voices in History of Black Women Lawyers (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998). 

Rickie Solinger, Abortion Wars: A Half Century of Struggle, 1950-2000 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998). 

Donald Stabile, The Origins of American Public Finance: Debates Over Money, Debt, and Taxes in the Constitutional Era, 1776-1836 (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998).  

Laura W. Stein, Sexual Harassment in America: A Documentary History (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999). 

Martin D. Stelter, Defining a People, Creating a State: The Wisconsin Constitution in Jacksonian Context (Eau Claire: University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 1998). 

D. Grier Stephenson, Campaigns and the Court: The U.S. Supreme Court in Presidential Elections (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999). 

Steven M. Taber, A Legislative History: The Development of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, 1982-1998 (Chicago: Center for Professional Responsibility, 1999).  

George C. Thomas, Double Jeopardy: The History, the Law (New York: New York University Press, 1998).  

William G. Thomas, Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the New South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999). 

Christopher L. Tomlins, Colonization and the Subject: A Manifesto of Destiny for Early American Legal History (Chicago: American Bar Foundation, 1998).  

Walter Trattner, From Poor Law to Welfare State: A History of Social Welfare in America (New York: The Free Press, 1999). 

Eric N. Waltenburg, Litigating Federalism: The States Before the U.S. Supreme Court (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999). 

Edward C. Walterscheid, To Promote the Progress of Useful Arts: American Patent Law and Administration, 1798-1836 (Litteton: F.B. Rothman, 1998).  

William M. Wiecek, The Lost World of Classical Thought: Law and Ideology in America, 1886-1937 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998). 

Frederick Wilkins, The Law Comes to Texas: The Texas Rangers, 1870-1901 (Austin: State House Press, 1999).  

Oscar R. Williams, African Americans and Colonial Legislation in the Middle Colonies (New York: Garland Publishers, 1998). 

Clyde N. Wilson, ed., A Defender of Southern Conservatism: M.E. Bradford and His Achievements (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999).  

Victoria S. Woeste, The Farmer's Benevolent Trust: Law and Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865-1945 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998).  

Eric K. Yamamoto, Interracial Justice: Conflict and Reconciliation in Post-Civil Rights America (New York: New York University Press, 1999).

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