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Category Archive: legal history

Josh Hawley Is Not the First Missouri Senator with Blood on His Hands

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The Bleeding Kansas parallels with our current moment get weirder and darker, as legal historian Steven Lubet explains.

Steven Lubet January 13, 2021 Civil War, conservatism, elections, legal history, radical politics

From Border Ruffian to Florida Man: The Evolution of Voter Fraud in American History

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Voter fraud is on everybody’s Twitter feed these days. While most everyone concedes that in person voting fraud […]

Steven Lubet December 4, 2020 elections, law, legal history, politics

In Search of Fathers: Nara Milanich on the Historical Puzzle of Paternity

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The question, Milanich argues, is not “Who is the father?” but rather, “Who do we want him to be?”

Jennifer Randles May 3, 2020 book reviews, family, gender, legal history, technology

…Here I Am, Stuck in the Middle with Anthony Kennedy

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Poor Anthony Kennedy. Masterpiece Cakeshop has literally pleased no one. Legal scholars left and right are united in […]

H. Robert Baker June 8, 2018 conservatism, gay rights, law, legal history, more conservatism, religion, the Left, Uncategorized

Where Are You From?

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How place determines race for racially in-between immigrants. July 4, 2002, was a particularly humid Independence Day in […]

Guest October 17, 2017 book excerpt, excerpts, legal history, race, transnational history, whiteness

Take Me Down to the Sanctuary City

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For our last big episode of the season, Doomed to Repeat is touching on one of the most […]

Guest October 4, 2017 conservatism, Doomed to Repeat, immigration, law, legal history, more conservatism, race

Why Neo-Confederate Claims about Black Slaveholders Are So Misleading

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Neo-Confederates insist that the many statues of Robert E. Lee commemorate only southern “heritage,” and that the revered […]

Steven Lubet September 7, 2017 African American history, black history, law, legal history, the South

Originalism: The Original Trigger Warning

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Neil Gorsuch will soon be an associate justice of the Supreme Court. Barring any eleventh-hour scandal (unlikely, if […]

H. Robert Baker February 14, 2017 conservatism, law, legal history, more conservatism, politics

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