AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY
HIST 4515/5515
Autumn Term, 2004
Dr. Phil Roberts
Class Meeting Time: Thursday, 7-9:30 p.m., CR
Office: 356 History Bldg.
E-mail address: philr@uwyo.edu
Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs., 11-Noon, and by appointment Phone: 766-5311 or 5101 (Home: 745-8205)
COURSE OBJECTIVE AND PROCEDURE: This course is designed to provide students with a historical overview of American law. The course will combine common readings from a textbook with general lectures and student reports on outside readings. The reading will be neither extensive nor difficult. There is no presumption of knowledge of legal terminology nor is there any assumption that students plan careers in the law. The case method, commonly used in law school instruction, will be used to a limited degree, but the focus is on the history of law. Some sessions will be divided between lecture and discussion on a specific topic. On those dates, during half of the class, the instructor will use a modified Socratic method to elicit discussion about the common readings. Students will be expected to have read the common readings before class and be able to respond to inquiries relating to the readings. Substantial penalties will be assessed if a student is not prepared on the evening that an individual recitation is due. Because the course is designed primarily as a reading/research course, relentless attendance is expected, both via distance sites and among those taking the course on-site. Each class period, we will take a short (10 or 15-minute) break sometime between 8 and 8:30 p.m. There will be occasions when graduate students will be asked to stay beyond 9:30 p.m., for brief information sessions on additional requirements. In no case will these sessions go beyond 9:50 p.m.
REQUIRED TEXTBOOK: Lawrence M. Friedman. American Law in the 20th Century. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002).
COURSE REQUIREMENTS: Undergraduate students will be responsible for the common readings as well as for reading one additional individually assigned court decision and one book. A term paper, the topic to be chosen in consultation with the instructor, will be due in the final week of the semester. The term paper will require significant research of primary documents as well as other sources such as court decisions. For individuals at distant sites, these materials may take the form of locally filed court documents or materials of a legal nature held in a local library or museum. A substantial penalty will be assessed against late papers. Graduate students will read the same materials as undergraduates along with additional items and prepare a more lengthy paper.
EXAMS AND GRADES: A mid-term exam (take-home), 20%; term paper, 25%; case and book reports and recitation, 20%; attendance, participation, and informed discussion, 10%; final exam, 25%.
GUEST SPEAKERS: The class will have opportunities to hear brief presentations from prominent individuals in the field of law during the course of the semester. These visits will NOT preempt assigned readings or lectures.
TERM PAPER:
Term paper topics are numerous and may take a variety of directions. For example, you may wish to write about some aspect of Thurman Arnold's legal career or the Wind River water rights dispute. Your topic may focus on an important lawsuit or the biography of a significant figure in legal history. A list of possible topics, about which primary research materials are available in the American Heritage Center, will be provided to you in October. Your topic will be assigned, but with input from you.
eCompanion:
Beyond these webpages, we will be using the eCompanion program as a convenient means of communicating materials in this class. For more information about eCompanion, go to http://ecampus.uwyo.edu, and follow the directions for logging on.
ASSIGNMENTS FROM THE COMMON READINGS AND LECTURES
(Case*: Indicates that assignment will include court decisions to be announced and assigned in advance)
Week 1: Introduction.
Week 2: Early American Law: The English Context and Colonial Response.
Reading: Friedman, pp. 399-429
Cases*
Reading: Friedman, pp. 44-79; 377-398.
Cases* (see Cases for Class Discussion)
Week 6: Labor Law; Law of Personal Injury, Negligence, Tort, Insurance
Family Law/Law and Religion
Reading: Friedman, pp. 430-456.
Cases*
Week 8 (Oct. 21): Resources Law
Special guest: Mary Guthrie, Executive Director, Wyoming State Bar.
Reading: Friedman, pp. 280-348; USA Patriot Act
Cases*
(List is incomplete and subject to change)
Week 2: Early American Law: The English Context and Colonial Response.
Allen, David G. In English Ways: The Movement of Societies and the Transferal of English Local Law and Custom to Massachusetts Bay in the 17th Century. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1981). HT123.5 M4 A44
Botein, Stephen. Early American Law and Society. (New York: Knopf, 1983). KF361 B67 1983
Hoffer, Peter Charles. Law and People in Colonial America. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1992). KF361 H63 1992
Konig, David L. Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts: Essex County, 1629-1692. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1979). KFM2999 E8 K66
Mann, Bruce H. Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1987). KFC3678 M36 1987
Nelson, William E. Dispute and Conflict Resolution in Plymouth County, Mass.: 1725-1825. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1981). KFM 2999 P6 N44
Powell, Sumner C. Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town. (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan U. Press, 1963). F74 S94 P74 1970
Adams, Willi Paul. The First American Constitutions: Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1980). JK31 A2413
Clinton, Robert L. Marbury v. Madison and Judicial Review. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1989). KF4575 C554 19
Dennison, George M. The Dorr War. (Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1976). JK3225 I842 D45
Horwitz, Morton J. The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860. (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1992). KF380 H67 1992
Howard, A. E. Dick. Commentaries on the Constitution of Virginia. (Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1974). 2 volumes. KFV2801 1970 A6 H68 (See instructor before reading)
Hyman, Harold M., and William M. Wiecek. Equal Justice Under Law: Constitutional Development, 1835-1875. (New York: Harper and Row, 1982). KF 4541 H89 1982
Jessup, Dwight W. Reaction and Accommodation: The U. S. Supreme Court and Political Conflict, 1809-1835. (New York: Garland, 1987). (not in Coe)
Ketcham, Ralph. James Madison: A Biography. (New York: Macmillan, 1971). 753 pp. E342 K46 1971
Morgan, Edmund S. The Birth of the Republic, 1763-1789. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977). E208 M85 1977
Nelson, William E. Americanization of the Common Law: The Impact of Legal Change on Massachusetts Society, 1760-1830. (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1975). KFM2478 N44
Nelson, William E. Marbury v. Madison: The Origins and Legacy of Judicial Review. (Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2000). KF 4575 N45 2000
Reid, John Phillip. Constitutional History of the American Revolution: The Authority to Legislate. (Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1991). KF4930 R45 1991
Reid, John Philip. In Defiance of the Law: The Standing Army Controversy, the Two Constitutions and the Coming of the American Revolution. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1981). UA25 R44
Reid, John Philip. The Concept of Representation in the Age of the American Revolution. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989). KF4881 R45 1989
Reading: Friedman, pp. 377-429
Alexander, Gregory S. Commodity and Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal Thought, 1776-1970. (Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1997). KF562 A43 1997
Ibbetson, D. J. A Historical Introduction to the Law of Obligations. (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999). Definitive work on the topic.
Karston, Peter. Heart versus Head: Judge-Made Law in 19th Century America. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1997).
Larson, John Lauritz. Internal Improvement: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2001).
McCurdy, Charles W. The Anti-Rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839-1865. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2001). Landlord-tenant disputes in upper New York State in the era.
McConville, Brendan. These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace: The Struggle for Property and Power in Early New Jersey. (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1999).
Reid, John Philip. Law for the Elephant: Property and Social Behavior on the Overland Trail. (San Marino: Huntington Library, 1980). KF366 R43
Salmon, Marylynn. Women and the Law of Property in Early America. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1986). KF524 S24 1986
Reading: Friedman, pp. 349-376.
Arnold, Thurman. The Folklore of Capitalism. (New Haven: Yale, 1937). 320.1 Ar65f Arnold was born and reared in Laramie and served as mayor of Laramie prior to becoming dean of Yale Law School and a New Deal official. Later, he formed what became the world's largest law firm, Arnold and Porter, in Washington, D. C.
Balleisen, Edward J. Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2001
Banner, Stuart. Anglo-American Securities Regulation: Cultural and Political Roots, 1690-1860. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Presss, 1998).
Baxter, Maurice. The Steamboat Monopoly: Gibbons v. Ogden. (New York: Knopf, 1972). KF4606 B38 K8
Caine, Stanley P. The Myth of a Progressive Reform: Railroad Regulation in Wisconsin, 1903-1910. (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1970). KFW2701 C3
Coleman, Peter J. Debtors and Creditors in America: Insolvency, Imprisonment for Debt and Bankruptcy, 1607-1900. (Madison: State Hist. Society of Wisconsin, 1974). KF1501 C64
Cortner, Richard C. The Iron Horse and the Constitution: The Railroads and the Transformation of the 14th Amendment. (Westport, Ct.: Greenwood, 1993). KF2344 C67 1993 An in-depth analysis of American railroad litigation from the 1880s to 1910--a period when the court's decisions in these cases fundamentally changed the meaning of due process.
Cortner, Richard. The Jones and Laughlin Case. (New York: Knopf, 1970). KF3408 C67
Ely, James W., Jr. Railroads and American Law. (Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 1999).
Fine, Sidney. Laissez Faire and the General-Welfare State: A Study of Conflict in American Thought, 1865-1901. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1957).
Hawley, Ellis. The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966). HD3616 U46 H33
Hurst, J. Willard. A Legal History of Money in the United States, 1774-1970. (Lincoln: Nebraska Press, 1973). KF6205 H87
Kutler, Stanley I. Privilege and Creative Destruction: The Charles River Bridge Case. (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1971). KF5541 C48
Magrath, C. Peter. Yazoo: Law and Politics in the New Republic, The Case of Fletcher v. Peck. (Providence: Brown University Press, 1966). KF5677 F5x M3
Monroe, Elizabeth Brand. The Wheeling Bridge Case: Its Significance in American Law and Technology. (Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press, 1992)
Parrish, Michael. Securities Regulation and the New Deal. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970). KF1439 P37 1970
Scheiber, Harry N. Ohio Canal Era: A Case Study of Government and the Economy, 1820-1861. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1969). HE395 O47 S3
Stites, Francis N. Private Interest and Public Gain: The Dartmouth College Case, 1819. (Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1972). KF4608 S75
Avrich, Paul. The Haymarket Tragedy. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984). HX846 C4 A97 1984 535 pp. Thorough treatment of a notorious episode in Chicago and radical history
Carlson, Peter. Roughneck: The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood. (New York: Norton, 1983). HD6509 H3 C37 1983 (a sympathetic treatment)
Dembo, Jonathan. Unions and Politics in Washington State, 1885-1935. (New York: Garland, 1983). HD8079 W3 D45 1983
Forbath, William E. Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement. (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1991). 211 pp. HD6510 F67 1991
McGovern, George S. The Great Coalfield War. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972). HD5325 M63 1913 C853 The author ran for president in 1972...this was his Ph.D. dissertation from an earlier time.
Novak, Michael. Guns of Lattimer: True Story of a Massacre and a Trial, 1897-1898. (New York: Basic, 1978). HD5325 M62 N68
Papke, David Ray. The Pullman Case: The Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial America. (Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 1999).
Phillips, Michael J. The Lochner Court, Myth and Reality: Substantive Due Process from the 1890s to the 1930s. (Westport: Praeger, 2001).
Steinfeld, Robert J. The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1988). Not in Coe
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Bergstrom, Randolph E. Courting Law: Injury and Law in New York City, 1870-1910. (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1992). Study of personal injury lawsuits and how they were handled in lower courts of New York during the period.
White, G. Edward. Tort Law in America. (New York: Oxford, 1980). KF1249 W48 1980 (not in Coe)
Reading: Friedman, pp. 430-456.
Alexander, Elizabeth Urban. Notorious Woman: The Celebrated Case of Myra Clark Gaines. (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2001). 60-year effort to gain father’s estate, 1813.
Andrews, Gregg. Insane Sisters, Or the Price Paid for Challenging a Company Town. (Columbia: Univ. of Mo. Press, 1999). F474 I23 A54 1999. Story of two sisters who fought a corporation in 1901 in town of Ilasco, Missouri, and how the cement company schemed to declare them crazy in order to put plant into town.
Barnett, Louise. Ungentlemenly Acts: The Army’s Notorious Incest Trial. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2000). An 1879 case from Fort Stockton, Texas.
Basch, Norma. Framing American Divorce: From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians. (Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Press, 1999). HQ833 B37 1999
Brown, Irene Quenzler, and Richard D. Brown. The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler: A Story of Rape, Incest, and Justice in Early America. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003).
Gordon, Sarah Barringer. The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in 19th Century America. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2000). KF4783 G67 2002
Hall, Timothy L. Separating Church and State: Roger Williams and Religious Liberty. (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1998). KF 4783 H35 1998
Isenberg, Nancy. Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1998).
Korobkin, Laura Hanft. Criminal Conversations: Sentimentality and 19th Century Legal Stories of Adultery. (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1998). PS374 A34 K67 1998. Law and literature.
Levy, Leonard W. The Establishment Clause: Religion and the First Amendment. (New York: Macmillan, 1986). KF4783 L48 1986
McCrossen, Alexis. Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday. (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 2000). BV111 M35 2000
Moran, Rachel F. Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance. (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2001). KF4757 M667 2001
Pagan, John Ruston. Anne Orthwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).
Peffer, George Anthony. If They Don’t Bring Their Women Here: Chinese Female Immigration Before Exclusion. (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1999). F869 S39 C56 1999
Peters, Shawn Francis. Judging Jehovah’s Witnesses: Religious Persecution and the Dawn of the Civil Rights Revolution. (Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2000). BX8525.7 P48 2000
VanBurkleo, Sandra F. Belonging to the World: Women’s Rights and American Constitutional Culture. (New York: Oxford, 2001).
Reading: Friedman, pp. 251-279
Ball, Larry D. Desert Lawmen: The High Sheriffs of New Mexico and Arizona, 1846-1912. (Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1992). HV8145 N6 B33 1992
Ball, Larry D. The United States Marshals of New Mexico and Arizona Territories, 1846-1912. (Albuquerque: UNM Press, 1978). HV8145 N6 B34
Brown, Richard Maxwell. No Duty of Retreat: Violence and Values in American History and Society. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992). E179 B88
Brown, Richard Maxwell. Strain of Violence: Historical Studies of American Violence and Vigilantism. (New York: Oxford, 1975). HN90 V5 B75
Calhoun, Frederick S. The Lawmen: United States Marshals and Their Deputies, 1789-1989. (Washington: Smithsonian Press, 1989). KF8794 C35
Chapin, Bradley. Criminal Justice in Colonial America, 1606-1660. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983). KF9223 C53
Dale, Elizabeth. The Rule of Justice: The People of Chicago versus Zephyr Davis. (Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press, 2001). HV9956 C47 D35 2001 Celebrated Chicago-area trial of young Black man for murder of a white female teenager in 1888
Davis, John W. A Vast Amount of Trouble: A History of the Spring Creek Raid. (Boulder: U. Press of Colo., 1993). KF224 B75 D38 1993 Author, a Wyoming lawyer, writes about last sheep-cattle dispute in Wyo.
Greenberg, Douglas. Crime and Law Enforcement in the Colony of New York, 1691-1776. (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1976). HV6793 N5 G74 1976
Grover, David H. Diamondfield Jack: A Study in Frontier Justice. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1968). KF223 D5 G7
Lebsock, Suzanne. A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial. (New York: Norton, 2003).
McKanna, Clare V., Jr. Homicide, Race, and Justice in the American West, 1880-1920. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1997).
Metz, Leon C. Pat Garrett: The Story of a Western Lawman. (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1974). F801 G3 M47
Mullen, Kevin J. Let Justice Be Done: Crime and Politics in Early San Francisco. (Reno, 1989).
Papke, David Ray. Framing the Criminal: Crime, Cultural Work and the Loss of Critical Perspective, 1830-1900. (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1987). HV6783 P28 1987 (newspaper crime coverage)
Peterson del Mar, David. Beaten Down: A History of Interpersonal Violence in the West. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002).
Reid, John Philip. Patterns of Vengeance: Crosscultural Homicide in the North American Fur Trade. (Pasadena: 9th Judicial Circuit Historical Society, 1999).
Roberts, Gary L. Death Comes to the Chief Justice: The Slough-Rynerson Quarrel and Political Violence in New Mexico. (Boulder: U. Press of Colo., 1990). KF223 R96 R63 1990 (author is not related to your professor)
Shirley, Glenn. Law West of Fort Smith: A History of Frontier Justice in the Indian Territory, 1834-1896. (Lincoln: Nebraska Press, 1957). KF368 P3x 1968
Spindel, Donna J. Crime and Society in North Carolina, 1663-1776. (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1989). KFN7962 S65 1989
Steinberg, Allen. Transformation of Criminal Justice. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1989). HV9956 P45 S74 (Philadelphia in the 19th century).
Sullivan, Robert. Goodbye Lizzie Borden. (London: Chatto and Windus, 1975). KF223 B6 S9 1975
Utley, Robert M. Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life. (Lincoln: Nebraska Press, 1989). F786 B54 U87
Utley, Robert M. High Noon in Lincoln: Violence on the Western Frontier. (Albuquerque: UNM Press, 1987). F802 L7 U86
Walker, Samuel. Popular Justice. (New York: Oxford, 1980). HV8138 W342
Week 8: Prisons and Punishment
Allen, Francis A. The Decline in the Rehabilitative Ideal: Penal Policy and Social Purpose. (New Haven: Yale, 1981). HV9304 A62
Ayers, Edward L. Vengeance and Justice: Crime and Punishment in the 19th Century South. (New York: Oxford, 1984). HV9475 A13 A96
Banner, Stuart. The Death Penalty: An American History. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002). HV8699 U5 B367 2002
Bookspan, Shelley. A Germ of Goodness: The California State Prison System, 1851-1944. (Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1991). HV9475 C2 B66 1991
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. Kansas Charley: The Story of a 19th Century Boy Murderer. (New York: Viking, 2003). The crime was committed in Wyoming and the boy was the first person executed during statehood.
Friedman, Lawrence M. and Robert V. Percival. The Roots of Justice: Crime and Punishment in Alameda County, California, 1870-1910. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1980). KFC1199 A4 F74 (Creative use of lower court records to build a profile of crime history in one county)
Hamm, Theodore. Rebel and a Cause: Caryl Chessman and the Politics of the Death Penalty in Postwar California, 1948-1974. (Berkeley: U. of Calif. Press, 2001). HV8699 U5 H363 2001
Hindus, Michael S. Prison and Plantation: Crime, Justice and Authority in Massachusetts and South Carolina, 1767-1878. (Chapel Hill, 1980). HV8145 S6 H55
Hirsch, Adam J. The Rise of the Penitentiary: Prisons and Punishment in Early America. (New Haven: Yale, 1992).
King, William M. Going to Meet a Man: Denver's Last Legal Public Execution, 27 August 1886. (Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1990). HV9956 D4 K56 1990
Leonard, Stephen J. Lynching in Colorado, 1859–1919. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002.
Masur, Louis. Rites of Execution: Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865. (New York: Oxford, 1989). HV8699 U5 M36
Miller, Vivian M. L. Crime, Sexual Violence, and Clemency: Florida’s Pardon Board and Penal System in the Progressive Era. (Gainesville: U Press of Florida, 2001). Development of the penitentiary system in Florida and efforts to reform it.
Los Siete Partidas. Trans. By Samuel Parsons Scott, ed. by Robert I. Burns. (5 vols. , Philadelphia: Univ. of Penn. Press, 2001). The great code of Spain composed under Alfonso X of Castile that introduced concepts of marital community property, natural resource law, and water rights. (1221-1284). In volume 1, read Burns essay, “Alfonso and the Wild West: The Partidas on the U. S. Frontier,” and “Alfonso X and the Partidas,” by Joseph O’Callaghan, then look at a number of particular sections in each of the volumes.
Miller, M. Catherine. Flooding the Courtrooms: Law and Water in the Far West. (Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1993). KFC162 M54 1993
Reading: Friedman, pp. 151-183.
Caine, Stanley P. The Myth of a Progressive Reform: Railroad Regulation in Wisconsin, 1903-1910. (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1970). KFW2701 C3
Carlson, Peter. Roughneck: The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood. (New York: Norton, 1983). HD6509 H3 C37 1983 (a sympathetic treatment)
Coleman, Peter J. Debtors and Creditors in America: Insolvency, Imprisonment for Debt and Bankruptcy, 1607-1900. (Madison: State Hist. Society of Wisconsin, 1974). KF1501 C64
Cortner, Richard C. The Iron Horse and the Constitution: The Railroads and the Transformation of the 14th Amendment. (Westport, Ct.: Greenwood, 1993). KF2344 C67 1993 An in-depth analysis of American railroad litigation from the 1880s to 1910--a period when the court's decisions in these cases fundamentally changed the meaning of due process.
Dembo, Jonathan. Unions and Politics in Washington State, 1885-1935. (New York: Garland, 1983). HD8079 W3 D45 1983
Fine, Sidney. Laissez Faire and the General-Welfare State: A Study of Conflict in American Thought, 1865-1901. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1957).
Forbath, William E. Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement. (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1991). 211 pp. HD6510 F67 1991
Hoffman, Beatrix. The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2001). HG9396 H638 2001
Hoogenboom, Ari and Olive. A History of the ICC: From Panacea to Palliative. (1976) Not in Coe
Keller, Morton. Regulating a New Economy: Public Policy and Economic Change in America, 1900-1933. (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1990). 300 pp. HC106 K45 1990 Primarily useful for the reader who is interested in the broad theme of regulatory change.
Kens, Paul. Judicial Power and Reform Politics: The Anatomy of Lochner v. New York. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1990). KF228 L63 K46
Kolko, Gabriel. Railroads and Regulation, 1877-1916. (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1965). KF2289 K6x
Letwin, William. Law and Economic Policy in America: The Evolution of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. (New York: Random House, 1980). KF1649 L4 1965x
Nelson, William E. The Roots of American Bureaucracy, 1830-1900. (Cambridge: Harvard, 1982). JK216 N44 1982
Purcell, Edward A., Jr. Brandeis and the Progressive Constitution: Erie, the Judicial Power, and the Politics of the Federal Courts in the 20th Century. (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2000). KF8745 B67 P84 Analysis of Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins (1938), state-federal relations.
Roberts, Phil. A Penny for the Governor, A Dollar for Uncle Sam: Income Taxation in Washington. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002). KFW475 R63 2002 The author is your professor.
Ross, William G. A Muted Fury: Populists, Progressives, and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890-1937. (Princeton Univ. Press, 1993). KF4575 R67 1994
Wood, Stephen B. Constitutional Politics in the Progressive Era: Child Labor and the Law. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968). KF3552 W66
Benedict, Michael Les. The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson. (New York: Norton, 1972). E666B46 1973
Blassingame, John W. The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. (New York: Oxford, 1972). E443 B55
Campbell, Stanley W. The Slave Catchers: Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850-1860. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1970). E450 C43
Cover, Robert. Justice Accused: Antislavery and the Judicial Process. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975). KF4545 S5 C66
Current, Richard Nelson. Those Terrible Carpetbaggers: A Reinterpretation. (New York: Oxford, 1988). E668 C985 1988
Fehrenbacher, Don. The Dred Scott Decision. (New York: Oxford, 1978). KF4545 S5 F43 741 pp.
Finkelman, Paul. An Imperfect Union: Slavery, Federalism and Comity. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1981). KF4545 S5 F56
Genovese, Eugene D. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. (New York: Vintage, 1972). E443 G46
Goldman, Robert M. Reconstruction and Black Suffrage: Losing the Vote in Reese and Cruikshank. (Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2001). Both cases decided on March 27, 1875, eroded voting rights of Blacks in the South.
Goldman, Robert M. “A Free Ballot and a Fair Count”: The Department of Justice and the Enforcement of Voting Rights in the South, 1877-1893. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2001). JK 1929 A2 G65 2001
Hadden, Sally E. Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas. (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2001). E443 H33 2001
Hoffer, Peter Charles. The Great New York Conspiracy of 1741: Slavery, Crime, and Colonial Law. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003).
Hyman, Harold M. A More Perfect Union: The Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on the Constitution. (New York: Knopf, 1973). JK231 H9
Jones, Howard. Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact. (New York: Oxford, 1987). E447 J66 1987
Morris, Thomas D. Free Men All: The Personal Liberty Laws of the North. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1974). KF4545 S5 M67
Neely, Mark E., Jr. Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism. (Charlottesville: Un. Press of Va., 1999). E487 N44 1999
Nye, Russell B. Fettered Freedom: Civil Liberties and the Slavery Controversy, 1830-1860. (East Lansing: Michigan State, 1948). 323.4 N985 suppression of antislavery speech.
Schmidt, James D. Free to Work: Labor Law, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, 1815-1880. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998).
Schwarz, Philip J. Twice Condemned: Slaves and the Criminal Laws of Virginia, 1705-1865. (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1988). KFV2801.6 S55 S39 1988
Slaughter, Thomas P. Bloody Dawn: The Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North. (New York: Oxford, 1991). F159 C55 S58
Stampp, Kenneth. The Peculiar Institution. (New York: Knopf, 1956). 326.975 St23 (old, but a classic nonetheless)
Tragle, Henry Irving. The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831: A Compilation. (New York: Vintage, 1971). F232 S7 T7
Vorenberg, Michael. Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery and the 13th Amendment. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001). A history of amending the US Constitution is included here in this study of the 13th Amendment.
Weisenburger, Steven. Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998). Examines the true story that Ton Morrison used to base her novel, Beloved (NY, 1987) on, a case from 1857. Story of Margaret Garner, a slave on the Gaines plantation in Kentucky
Backhouse, Constance. Colour-Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950. (Toronto: U of Toronto Press, 1999).
Baiamonte, John V. Spirit of Vengeance: Nativism and Louisiana Justice, 1921-1924. (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1988). KF224 R56 B35 1986
Bass, Jack. Unlikely Heroes: The Dramatic Story of the Southern Judges of the Fifth Circuit Who Translated the Supreme Court's Brown Decision into a Revolution for Equality. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981). KF8752 5th B3 The title explains what the book is about.
Belknap, Michal R. Federal Law and Southern Order: Racial Violence and Constitutional Conflict in the Post-Brown South. (Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1987). KF4757 B346 1987
Bernstein, David E. Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001). KF3464 B47 2001
Brandwein, Pamela. Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Supreme Court and the Production of Historical Truth. (Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 1999). KF4541 B688 1999 A sociologist looks at the forces behind interpreting and amending the Constitution through a study of the 14th Amendment.
Carter, Dan T. Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South. (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1979). KF224 S34 C3 1979
Cortner, Richard C. Civil Rights and Public Accommodations: The Heart of Atlanta Motel and McClung Cases. (Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2001). KF228 H43 C67 2001 Two 1964 cases on public accommodations.
Cortner, Richard C. A Mob Intent on Death: The NAACP and the Arkansas Riot Cases. (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1988). F417 P45 C67 1988
Cortner, Richard C. The Supreme Court and the Second Bill of Rights. (Madison: University Press of Wisconsin, 1981). KF4749 C66
Curtis, Michael Kent. No State Shall Abridge: The 14th Amendment and the Bill of Rights. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1986). KF4757 C87 1986
Dees, Morris. A Season for Justice: The Life and Times of Civil Rights Lawyer Morris Dees. (New York: Scribners, 1991). KF373 D43 A3 1991
Garrow, David J. Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978). JK1929 A2 G37.
Jackson, Walter A. Gunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience: Social Engineering and Radical Liberalism, 1938-1987. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1990). HN57 J246 1990 A difficult book, aimed mostly at the specialist familiar with Myrdal's work.
Johnson, Frank M. Defending Constitutional Rights. (Athens: U of Georgia Press, 2001). Ed. by Tony Freyer. KF4764 J64 2001 Johnson was a federal district judge in Alabama during the Civil Rights era.
Logan, Rayford. The Betrayal of the Negro: From Hays to Wilson. (New York: Collier Books, 1965). E185.61 L64 1965
Martin, Charles H. The Angelo Herndon Case and Southern Justice. (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1976). KF224 H47 M3 Herndon had two strikes against him: he was Black and communist.
Myrdal, Gunnar. An American Dilemma. (New York: Harper and Row, 1944). 301.451 M997a 1962 Few authors have been cited in Supreme Court opinions--Myrdal was cited in Brown v. Board.
Perman, Michael. The Struggle for Mastery: Disenfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908. (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2001). JK1929 A2 P47 2001
Tushnet, Mark. The NAACP's Legal Strategy Against Segregated Education. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1987). KF4155 T87 1987
Wolf, Eleanor. Trial and Error: The Detroit School Desegregation Case. (Detroit: Wayne State, 1981). LC214.23 D6 W64
Yarbrough, Tinsley E. Race and Redistricting: The Shaw-Cromartie Cases. (Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2002). KF4905 Y37 2002
Biolsi, Thomas. Deadliest Enemies: Law and the Making of Race Relations on and off Rosebud Reservation. (Berkeley: University of Calif. Press, 2001). KFS3505.5 R67 B56 2001
Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip (1975).
Deloria, Vine, Jr., and Clifford M. Lytle. American Indians, American Justice. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983). KF8224 C6 D44 1983
Lazarus, Edward. Black Hills, White Justice. (New York: Harper Collins, 1991). E99 D1 L37
Long, Carolyn N. Religious Freedom and Indian Rights: The Case of Oregon v. Smith. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000). Smith case handed down in 1888 and 1990. Native American Church case, Smith upheld by Oregon Supreme Court twice, but overturned by US Supreme Court. Later, legislation overruled case holding against practice of native religion.
Miller, Bruce G. The Problem of Justice: Tradition and Law in the Coast Salish World. (Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2000). KFW505.5 C63 M55 2001 Includes references to Canada as well as to the U. S.
Shattuck, George C. The Oneida Land Claims: A Legal History. (Syracuse: Syracuse Univ. Press, 1991). KF8228 O45 A3
Williams, Robert A. The American Indian in Western Legal Thought. (New York: Oxford, 1990). KF8205 W547
Reading: Friedman, pp. 111-147; 280-348
Barkan, Steven E. Protesters on Trial: Criminal Justice and the Southern Civil Rights and Vietnam Antiwar Movements. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1985). KF9390 B37
Belknap, Michal P. Cold War Political Justice: The Smith Act, the Communist Party and American Civil Liberties. (Westport: Greenwood, 1977). KF4856 C6 B44
Caute, David. The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge Under Truman and Eisenhower. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978). E743.5 C35 697 pp.
Charns, Alexander. Cloak and Gavel: FBI Wiretaps, Bugs, Informers, and the Supreme Court. (Champaign: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1993). KF8742 C45 1992 Author asserts that the FBI undermined the independence of the Supreme Court for a half-century. He questions the agency's role in conducting background checks of justices.
Eskridge, William N. Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet. (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1999). KF4754.5 E84 1999
Freedman, Eric M. Habeas Corpus: Rethinking the Great Writ of Liberty. (New York: NYU Press, 2001). KF9011 F74 2001
Gentry, Curt. J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets. (New York: Norton, 1991). PS3557 E458 J18
Goldstein, Robert Justin. Flag Burning and Free Speech: The Case of Texas v. Johnson. (Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2000). KF224 J64 G65 2000
Hoffman, George F. Cold War Casualty: The Court Martial of Major General Robert W. Grow. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1993).
Irons, Peter. Justice at War: The Story of Japanese-American Internment Cases. (New York, 1983). KF7224.5 I76 1983 The author helped prepare the case leading to reparations for internees
Karst, Kenneth L. Belonging to America: Equal Citizenship and the Constitution. (New Haven: Yale, 1989). KF4700 K37 1989
Kutler, Stanley. American Inquisition: Justice and Injustice in the Cold War. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1982). KF4850 K87
Kutler, Stanley. Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon. (New York: Knopf, 1990). E860 K87
O’Brien, Ruth. Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace. (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2001). HD7256 U5 O27 2001
Urofsky, Melvin I. Lethal Judgments: Assisted Suicide and American Law. (Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2000). KF3827 E87 U755 2000
Walker, Samuel. In Defense of American Liberties: A History of the ACLU. (New York: Oxford, 1990). JC599 U5 W28
Curtis, Michael Kent. Free Speech: The People’s Daring Privilege: Struggles for Freedom of Expression in American History. (Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 2000). Actually, the work goes from the Alien and Sedition Acts through to 1865.
Friendly, Fred W. Minnesota Rag. (New York: Vintage, 1982). KF228 N35 F73 The story of Near v. Minnesota, the landmark prior restraint case.
Frost, Richard H. The Mooney Case. (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1968). KF224 M6 F7 San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing case of 1916, much of the documentary evidence is held in the American Heritage Center.
Kalven, Harry, Jr. A Worthy Tradition: Freedom of Speech in America. (New York: Harper and Row, 1988). KF4772 K35 1988
Rabban, David. Free Speech in its Forgotten Years (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997). KF4772 R33 1997 Civil War to World War I.
Polenberg, Richard. Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, the Supreme Court and Free Speech. (N.Y: Viking, 1988). KF224 A34 P65
Rudentstine, David. The Day the Presses Stopped: A History of the Pentagon Papers Case. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996). KF228 N52 R84 1996
Sabin, Arthur J. In Calmer Times: The Supreme Court and Red Monday. (Philadelphia: Univ. of Penn. Press, 1999). KF221 C55 S22 1999 On June 17, 1957, the Supreme Court handed down decisions in “Red scare” cases, including Yates v. US.
Ungar, Sanford J. The Papers and the Papers: An Account of the Legal and Political Battle over the Pentagon Papers. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1989). KF224 N39 U54
Whitten, Woodrow C. Criminal Syndicalism and the Law in California, 1919-1927. (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1969). AS36 A44x n.s. 59-2
Reading: Friedman, pp. 457-607.
Bakken, Gordon Morris. Practicing Law in Frontier California. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991). KF301.5 C3 B35
Baxter, Maurice. Daniel Webster and the Supreme Court. (Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1966). KF874 B389
Billings, Warren M. and Mark F. Fernandez, eds. A Law Unto Itself?: Essays in the New Louisiana Legal History. (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2001). Model for what I’d like to do in Wyoming.
Bloomfield, Maxwell. Peaceful Revolution: Constitutional Change and American Culture from Progressivism to the New Deal. (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2000). KF4541 B59 2000 Looks at popular culture’s impact on law during the period.
Harbaugh, William. Lawyer's Lawyer: The Life of John W. Davis. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1973). KF373 D387 H37 Davis was Democratic nominee for president in 1924 and a generation later, he made the oral argument before the U. S. Supreme Court for the Board in the Brown case.
Haywood, C. Robert. Cowtown Lawyers: Dodge City and Its Attorneys, 1876-1888. (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1988). KF355 D63 H39 1988
Irons, Peter. The New Deal Lawyers. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982). KF6020 I7 1982
Johnson, John W. American Legal Culture, 1908-1940. (Westport: Greenwood, 1981). KF371 J63 1981
Kalman, Laura. Legal Realism at Yale, 1927-1960. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1986). KF292 Y314 K35
Moddelmog, William E. Reconstituting Authority: American Fiction in the Province of the Law, 1880-1920. (Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press, 2000). PS374 L34 M63 2000 Examines books by Howells, Wharton, Dreiser, among others, to determine role in law in novels.
Thomas, William G. Lawyering for the Railroad: Business Law, and Power in the New South. (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1999). Southern lawyers working for railroad s form 1880-1910.
Underwood, James Lowell and W. Lewis Burke, eds. At Freedom’s Door: African American Founding Fathers and Lawyers in Reconstruction South Carolina. (Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 2000).
Baker, Liva. Justice from Beacon Hill: The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell Holmes. (New York: Harper Collins, 1991). KF8745 H6 B35 1991
Ball, Howard, and Phillip Cooper. Of Power and Right: Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and America's Constitutional Revolution. (New York: Oxford, 1992). KF8744 B275
Douglas, William O. Go East, Young Man. (New York: Random House, 1974). KF8745 D6 A3
Douglas, William O. The Court Years: 1939-1975. (New York: Random House, 1980). KF8745 D6 A28
Ellis, Richard E. The Jeffersonian Crisis: Courts and Politics in the Young Republic. (New York: Oxford, 1971). KF5130 E44
Freyer, Tony. Hugo L. Black and the Dilemma of American Liberalism. (Glenview: Scott, Foresman, 1990). KF8745 B55 F74
Fritz, Christian G. Federal Justice in California: The Court of Ogden Hoffman, 1851-1891. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991). KF368 H583 F75
Gerhart, Eugene C. America's Advocate: Robert H. Jackson. (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1958). KF8745 J27 G4x
Glennon, Robert. The Iconoclaust as Reformer: Jerome Frank's Impact on American Law. (Ithaca: Cornell, 1985). KF373 F7 G55
Guice, John D. W. The Rocky Mountain Bench: The Territorial Supreme Courts of Colorado, Montana and Wyoming, 1861-1890. (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1972). KF8736 G8
Hall, Kermit L. The Politics of Justice: Lower Federal Judicial Selection and the Second Party System, 1829-61. (Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1979). KF8776 H34
Haw, James A. Stormy Patriot: The Life of Samuel Chase. (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1980). E302.6 C4 S8
Hutchinson, Dennis J. and David J. Garrow. The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR’s Washington. (Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 2002).
Koeber, A. G. Faithful Magistrates and Republican Lawyers: Creators of Virginia's Legal Culture, 1680-1810. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1981). KFV2478 R63
Leonard, Charles A. A Search for a Judicial Philosophy: Mr. Justice Roberts and the Constitutional Revolution of 1937. (Port Washington, New York: Kennikat Press, 1971). KF8745 R6 L46
Levy, Leonard W. The Law of the Commonwealth and Chief Justice Shaw. (Cambridge: Harvard, 1957). 340.09747 Sh27L
Lurie, Jonathan O. Arming Military Justice. Vol. 1: The Origins of the U. S. Court of Military Appeals, 1775-1950. (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1992). KF7667 L87 1992 v. 1 A much needed account of how the system developed.
Michelman, Frank I. Brennan and Democracy. (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1999).
Morris, Richard B. John Jay: The Nation and the Court. (Boston: Boston University Press, 1967). KF8745 J3 M6
Newmyer, R. Kent. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1985). KF8745 S83 N48
Newmyer, R. Kent. John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court. (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2001). KF 8745 M3 N49 2001
Novick, Sheldon M. Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1989). KF8745 H6 N69
Paper, Lewis J. Brandeis. (Secaucus, N. J.: Citadel Press, 1983). KF8745 B67 P36
Parrish, Michael. Felix Frankfurter and His Times. (New York: Free Press, 1982). KF8745 F7 P37
St. Clair, James, and Linda C. Gugin. Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson of Kentucky: A Political Biography. (Lexington: Univ. of Kentucky Press, 2002). KF8745 V55 S7 2002
Semonche, John E. Charting the Future: The Supreme Court Responds to a Changing Society, 1890-1920. (Westport: Greenwood, 1978). KF8742 S44 Heavy-sledding, repetitive but interesting and worth reading.
Stites, Francis N. John Marshall, Defender of the Constitution. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1981). KF8745 M3 S78
Surrency, Erwin C. History of the Federal Courts. (2d ed., Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.: Oceana Publications, 2002). KF8719 S97
Swindler, William. Court and Constitution in the 20th Century: The Old Legality. (vol. 1). (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969). KF8748 S9 v.
White, G. Edward. The Marshall Court and Cultural Change, 1815-1835. Vol. 3, History of the U. S. Supreme Court. (New York: Macmillan, 1988). Holmes Devise. 1009 pp. KF8742 A45 H55 (See instructor before reading).
Yarbrough, Tinsley E. The Rehnquist Court and the Constitution. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000). KF8742 Y37 2000
