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Keener and Whittington on Birthright Citizenship
Benjamin Keener, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, and Keith E. Whittington, Yale Law School, have posted Demystifying Birthright Citizenship:Executive Order 14160 and the litigation it generated in Trump v. Barbara have thrust birthright citizenship back
Altschuler's "Before Disability"
Sari Altschuler, Northeastern University, has published Before Disability: A History of American Citizenship (University of Pennsylvania Press):
The history of disability rights is often told as a recent one, but it is not. In the wake of the American Revolution, many
Parkinson's "Tyrants and Rogues"
Robert G. Parkinson, Binghamton University, has published Tyrants and Rogues: Understanding the Declaration of Independence (Norton):
We think of the Declaration of Independence as timeless. We know the sacred phrases: “all men are created equal,” “life, liberty, and the pursuit
Farbman, "Towns or Counties"
Daniel Farbman (Boston College Law) has posted “Towns or Counties.” The article appears in Volume 59, no. 3, of the Indiana Law Review. The abstract:The United States is a nation of counties with a latent romance for
towns.
Upham's "Taking American Citizenship Seriously"
David R. Upham, St. Thomas University College of Law, has published Taking American Citizenship Seriously: The Recovery of the Fourteenth Amendment (Bloomsbury)
In this ambitious volume, Professor David R. Upham offers a comprehensive account of the original understanding of
Two HLR Notes: Montesquieu and "Historical Absence"
Two notes in Harvard Law Review 139: 8 (June 2026) are of interest to constitutional historians. The first is Montesquieu’s Day in Court: Recovering a Classical Understanding of Separated Powers:
The Supreme Court has developed an increasingly pronounced reliance
Del Bianco on Prohibition and the Fourth Amendment
Mitchell A. Del Bianco, a recent graduate of the University of Virginia‘s J.D. and M.A. program in legal history has posted How Prohibition Rewrote the Fourth Amendment, which is forthcoming in the Washington University Jurisprudence Review. Mr.
YJLH 36.6: A Festschrift for Gordon Wood
We have of course noted the death of the great historian of the American Revolution Gordon Wood. As it happens, the Yale Journal of Law and Humanities has just published online its 36.6 issue: Festschrift in Honor of the Scholarship
Wells on Ecclesiastical Courts in the Early American Republic
S. Spencer Wells has published Disciplining Conscience: Judging Ecclesiastical Courts in the Early American Republic in the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities:American Protestants during the Second Great Awakening participated in one of the largest experiments in