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Ryan H. Nelson, South Texas College of Law, Houston, has published San[d]ford at 27 Green Bag 3d 323 (2024). Here is the abstract.
Prevailing sentiment within the legal academy is that the U.S. Supreme Court misspelled the defendant’s name when it reported Dred Scott v. John F.A. Sandford in the U.S. Reports. After all, the…

Out now from Routledge: The Routledge History of Crime in America, edited by James Campbell and Vivien Miller. Here from the publisher’s website is a description of the book’s contents.
 
Covering a broad chronology from the colonial era to the present, this volume’s 28 chapters reflect the diverse approaches, interests and findings of an…

Kellen Funk, Columbia University Law School, has published Sect and Superstition: The Protestant Framework of American Codification in the American Journal of Legal History (2024). Here is the abstract.
Elite lawyers who debated codification in the nineteenth-century United States treated codification as inseparable from a liberal Protestant textualism that had taken hold in the early…

Michael L. Smith, St. Mary’s University School of Law, is publishing History as Precedent: Common Law Reasoning in Historical Investigation in volume 27 of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law (2025). Here is the abstract.
The United States Supreme Court frequently looks to history when interpreting the Constitution. On some occasions, it does…

Michael L. Smith, St. Mary’s University School of Law, is publishing Do Not Read in volume 70 of the South Dakota Law Review (2025). Here is the abstract.
Law professors enjoy marking up drafts of papers with “Do Not Cite or Circulate” notifications-hoping that doing so will manage reader expectations, preserve their reputations, and prevent…

Sam Williams, University of Idaho College of Law, is publishing What We Grow Beyond: How The Last Jedi, Go Set a Watchman, and the Notorious R.B.G. Can Help Attorneys Be the Heroes They Want to Be in volume 52 of the Cap. U.L. Rev. (2024). Here is the abstract.
Recent changes to the American Bar…

Professor Amardeep Singh developed this open-access reader and guide to the poetry of African-American women with the assistance of one of his students, Sarah Thompson. Here’s the link to the work. Sections include The Long Legacy of Slavery, Social Justice in Sonnet Form, and Black Motherhood in an Era of Systemic Racism.
https://scalar.lehigh.edu/african-american-poetry-a-digital-anthology/african-american-poetry-by-women-1890-1930-a-reader-and-guide