legal history

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7/17/19
  

  Trump's Supreme Court Challenge Has a Historical Precedent

  by Bethany Berger

  As Trump agrees reluctantly to respect the court—at least in the case of the census—he follows, in part, that long-ago legal victory of the Cherokee Nation.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7/24/19
  

  The Supreme Court decision that kept suburban schools segregated

  by Jon Hale

  The Milliken v. Bradley decision sanctioned a form of segregation that has allowed suburbs to escape being included in court-ordered desegregation and busing plans with nearby cities.

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• 7/21/19
  

  Exploring the Curious Sources of Medieval Law: An Interview with Acclaimed Historian Robin Chapman Stacey

  by Robin Lindley

  An Interview with Acclaimed Historian Robin Chapman Stacey on Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales and More

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• 7/21/19
  

  The History of the American System of Interrogation

  by Donald E. McInnis

  Were the Central Park Five confessions a freak accident? No: every day, adults and juveniles falsely confess to serious crimes they did not commit. Why? 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  7/1/19
  

  The Supreme Court Is in Danger of Again Becoming ‘the Grave of Liberty’

  by Eric Foner

  Supreme Court decisions have practical consequences, which justices too often blithely ignore.

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• SOURCE: House Committee on Education and Labor
  5/17/19
  

  Video of the Week: Brown v. Board at 65, A Promise Unfulfilled

  This six-minute video gives a powerful overview of the Supreme Court decision.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5/25/19
  

  Outrage as author Naomi Wolf stands by view of Victorian poet

  At Hay festival, Wolf restated belief that John Addington Symonds was deeply affected by laws against homosexuality.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/12/19
  

  If judicial nominees don’t support ‘Brown v. Board,’ they don’t support the rule of law

  by Sherrilyn Ifill

  Few of us — no matter our race, color or creed — would recognize our democracy or legal system without the changes touched off by this momentous civil rights case.

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• SOURCE: Washigton Post
  5/7/19
  

  A century-old feud between millionaires is now key to getting Trump’s tax returns

  The law at issue in the strife over Trump’s taxes arose from a bitter dispute between Mellon and Sen. James Couzens (R-Mich.), a deep-pocketed adversary on Capitol Hill, over the lawmaker’s investigation of the IRS.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  5/2/19
  

  The Wolf’s Lair Attempts Transition From Tourist Trap to Educational Site

  The Polish government has taken over ownership of the one-time nerve center of the Third Reich, ridding the site of paintball and pottery classes.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/18/19
  

  Poor criminal defendants need better legal counsel to achieve a just society

  by Connie Hassett-Walker

  Why we must fulfill the promise of a famous Supreme Court decision to truly achieve criminal justice reform.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/29/19
  

  ‘Blue water’ Navy veterans from Vietnam-era win Agent Orange benefits case

  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled overwhelmingly for these sailors, finding they are eligible for the same disability benefits as those who put boots on the ground or patrolled Vietnam’s inland rivers.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/27/19
  

  What Robert Mueller and William Barr need to tell us

  by Philip Zelikow

  Above all, because of its counterintelligence writ, the Mueller report should provide a historical account of a troubling and intensely controversial episode in American history. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/15/19
  

  What We Can Still Learn From American History's First Special Prosecutor

  by Andrew Coan

  The Mueller investigation grew out of a rich, complicated and not always edifying history that even most legal scholars and historians have largely forgotten. 

• SOURCE: LA Times
  8-13-13
  

  Joseph Margulies: Invoking God in America

  Joseph Margulies is a professor at Northwestern University Law School and the author of "What Changed When Everything Changed: 9/11 and the Making of National Identity."In one recent week, time took two heroes. So far as I know, the legendary civil rights lawyer Julius Chambers and the esteemed public intellectual Robert Bellah never met. They lived on opposite ends of the country and traveled in different circles. But they were connected in an important, symbolic way, and their passing within a few days of each other provides the occasion to reflect on their common lesson for modern American life.

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• Why Is Arbitration Legally Binding?

  by Imre Stephen Szalai

   The Supreme Court is wrongfully outsourcing justice for millions of Americans who are being shut out from the courthouse and relegated to a secretive justice system with very limited rights.

• SOURCE: NYT
  2-14-13
  

  Ronald Dworkin, Scholar of the Law, Is Dead at 81

  Ronald Dworkin, a legal philosopher and public intellectual of bracingly liberal views who insisted that morality is the touchstone of constitutional interpretation, died Thursday in London. He was 81.The cause was leukemia, said Richard Revesz, the dean of the New York University School of Law, who announced the death. Professor Dworkin had been a member of the school’s faculty for many years and also taught at University College, London.Professor Dworkin was “the primary legal philosopher of his generation,” said Judge Guido Calabresi, a former dean of Yale Law School who now sits on the federal appeals court in New York. He was also one of the most closely read as a mainstay of The New York Review of Books, to which he contributed articles for decades....

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• Five Myths about Roe v. Wade

  by Marc Stein

  Supreme Court Building. Credit: Wiki Commons.Originally posted on the UNC Press Blog.On January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision in Roe v. Wade, the abortion rights case that culminated in one of the most controversial legal rulings in the country’s history. Forty years later, numerous myths continue to circulate about the contents and meanings of Roe. Here are five of the most significant:Myth #1: Roe endorsed abortion on demand.