Mark Hanna has published From Claudette Colvin’s expectation to bus desegregation in Browder v Gayle in the American Journal of Legal History:
In March 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to move from her seat on a Montgomery bus, setting
Khiara M. Bridges, UC Berkeley School of Law, has published the review essay Originalism Without History in the Yale Law Journal:Originalism, the Supreme Court’s ascendant theory of constitutional interpretation, claims to dive deep into the historical archives to
Michael Allan Wolf, University of Florida Levin College of Law, has posted Property Law as History, which is forthcoming in The Urban Lawyer:Because property law and history are so inextricably intertwined, it has become even more important
Lutz-Christian Wolff, Chinese University of Hong Kong, has published an article entitled Legal History and Comparative Law: Just the Flip Side of the Same Coin? in the Independent Law Journal:The relationship between legal history and comparative law
Ger Coffey, University of Limerick, has posted A History of the Common Law Double Jeopardy Principle: From Classical Antiquity to Modern Era:The double jeopardy principle is a guarantee of individual liberty that has ancient origins. The development of
Thomas A. Smith, University of San Diego School of Law, has posted a reconsideration of Eire Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, entitled, Overruled from the Chair: A Study in UmbesetzungThis Article reads Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins (1938) not
An article of interest from Britney Wilson (New York Law School): “The Disability History of Brown v. Board of Education,” Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice 32, no. 1 (2026).
Daimeon Shanks-Dumont, a Ph.D. Candidate in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, has published Godzilla Cinema and the Imaginal Legal History of Ecocide in the Yale Journal of Law
Rachel Bayefsky, UVA Law, has published Tradition and Feminism in Constitutional Rights Adjudication in the Virginia Law Review:In recent years, “tradition” has been influentially invoked in constitutional rights adjudication and legal scholarship. The Supreme Court, in contexts ranging
David Singh Grewal, Sanjay G. Reddy, and Sarang A. Shah have published The Hidden Politics of ‘Affordability’: Administrative Law and the Making of the Consumer Price Index in the Stanford Law & Policy Review:Perhaps no issue has greater
