Monday, October 21, 2024

Mack & Cogan: In Between and Across: Legal History Without Boundaries

Kenneth W. Mack
(Harvard Univ. - Law) & Jacob Katz Cogan (Univ. of Cincinnati - Law) have published In Between and Across: Legal History Without Boundaries (Oxford Univ. Press 2024). Contents include:
  • Kenneth W. Mack & Jacob Katz Cogan, Introduction: Rewriting the Boundaries of Legal History
  • Part I: The Political Economy of Time
    • Matthew Axtell, Views from Rathole Mountain: A Lawscape Journey through Old Virginia
    • Donna Dennis, The Rise of Retail Stockholder Litigation and the Creation of the Plaintiff's Bar in American Business Law, 1930-1950
    • Felicia Kornbluh, Private Law, Public Welfare, Marital Ideals, and The Gender Binary . . . or, What I Learned at the Socio-Legal Revolution
    • Maribel Morey, Power of the Purse: How “the Philanthropic North” Has Helped Determine Which Individuals, Groups, and Ideas in the Black Freedom Struggle Will Thrive Nationally
    • Sarah Seo, “Kindred to Treason”: Conspiracy Laws in the United States
  • Part II: Law, Space, and Place in History
    • Catherine L. Evans, The Case as Episode: Murder and Migration in Colonial Australia
    • Maeve Glass, The Chain and the Rope: Illuminating Constitutional Traditions
    • Mitra Sharafi, South Asians at the Inns of Court: Empire, Expulsion, and Redemption circa 1900
  • Part III: Rethinking Method: Law and Everything Else
    • Jessica K. Lowe, “Our Experiences Make Us Who We Are”: Lessons from Thomas Ruffin and Dirk Hartog
    • Farah Peterson, Debtor Constitutionalism
    • Christina D. Ponsa-Kraus, Roosters and Resistance
    • Laura Weinrib, Law, History, and the Interwar ACLU's Jewish Lawyers