Mayeri on Marital Supremacy and the Constitution of the Nonmarital Family

Serena Mayeri, University of Pennsylvania Law School , has posted Marital Supremacy and the Constitution of the Nonmarital Family , which ap...

Sunday Book Roundup

In Dissent,  Amy Dru Stanley reviews Alex Gourevitch's From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in th...

Sunday Book Roundup

From The Dallas Morning News , there's a review of Will Haywood's Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That...

Sunday Book Roundup

This week, H-Net posted a review of Chanelle N. Rose's The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami: Civil Rights and America's Tourist ...

Wright, "The Regional Impact of the Civil Rights Act of 1964"

The Boston University Law Review recently published " The Regional Impact of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ," by Gavin Wright (Sta...

Sunday Book Roundup

The New Rambler  has a review of The Constitution: An Introduction  by Michael Stokes Paulsen and Luke Paulsen (Basic). "Written with ...

"Beyond the New Deal Order" Conference Program

Next week (September 24-26) the University of California, Santa Barbara hosts a conference titled " Beyond the New Deal Order ." T...

Sunday Book Roundup

Ian Klaus's Forging Capitalism: Rogues, Swindlers, Frauds and the Rise of Modern Finance  (Yale University Press) is reviewed on H-Net....

Goluboff on the NAACP and Labor Litigation in the 1940

Risa Goluboff, University of Virginia Law School , has posted an item from her backlist: “Let Economic Equality Take Care of Itself': Th...

Gonda's New History of Shelley v. Kramer

Out next month from the University of North Carolina Press but available for pre-order now is Unjust Deeds: The Restrictive Covenant Cases a...

McGruder, "Race and Real Estate: Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, 1890-1920"

New from Columbia University Press: Race and Real Estate: Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, 1890-1920 (June 2015), by Kevin McGruder (Ant...

A Symposium on Mendez v. Westminster

We've noted the publication of Philippa Strum's book on Mendez v. Westminster and an exhibit on the litigation in the federal cour...

Sunday Book Roundup

Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) is reviewed on The Daily B...

Orfield on "Milliken, Meredith, and Metropolitan Segregation"

The UCLA Law Review recently published an article of interest: " Milliken, Meredith, and Metropolitan Segregation ," by Myron Orf...

Guzmán on Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands

New from the University of Illinois Press: Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands: Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon and Black Activism , by Will Guzmán ...

DC Working Class History Seminar

Here’s the line-up for the DC Working Class History Seminar for 2015-16: September  19 Jennifer Luff (Durham University-UK) “Banning reds: ...

Weekend Roundup

"Donald Trump’s lawyer was right: In some places, raping your wife is still treated like a minor offense" -- so says legal histori...

Oliveri, "Setting the Stage for Ferguson: Housing Discrimination and Segregation in St. Louis"

Rigel Christine Oliveri (University of Missouri School of Law) has posted " Setting the Stage for Ferguson: Housing Discrimination and ...

Sunday Book Roundup

Here's a collection of book reviews for this weekend: Tm Weiner's book, One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon  (Ho...

On Louis Pollak

We missed the March 2014 issue of the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society , with its oral history of and tributes to the law p...