The journal, which was published by Temple University Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from its inception in 1957 to 2015, had four editors during this period, all of whom served at Temple University School of Law: Professor Surrency (1957-81); Prof. Dr. Diane C. Maleson (1982-2002); Lawrence J. Reilly (2008 to 2014) and Professor Harwell Wells (2015). [10] Since 2016, the editors are Stefan Vogenauer and Alfred Brophy. The editors of the book review are Lee Wilson and Matthew Dyson. The journal`s international editorial board is composed of more than twenty eminent legal historians. [11] From 1957 to 1974, the honorary chairman of the advisory council was Earl Warren, the former chief justice of the United States. [12] How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr rewrites the history of the United States with the Empire at its heart. Building on this achievement, this journal describes an American legal history of natives, race, slavery, immigration, and empire in which legal « manipulation of status » accomplished and concealed the myriad of injustices committed. According to Professor Surrency, the journal was founded to provide a forum for legal historians to do their work and advance « the law by studying its history. » [5] As a peer publication, the journal offers authors « a more experienced editorial hand [and] its articles are often shorter, filled with fewer articles of publication or perishing than an exchange of ideas between scientists. » [6] The journal was the first English-language journal devoted exclusively to the history of law. [7] The journal publishes articles, essays and book reviews on all aspects of the history of law.
[8] Although a common misconception is that the magazine`s coverage is limited to « American legal history, » editors make it a point of honor to regularly publish books on non-American legal history. [9] The « American » part of the title refers to the original location of the journal – in the United States – and not to the subject it publishes. This article restores institutional experience in the early days of the Fair Labour Standards Act as an example of democratic and egalitarian administrative law. The bill`s wage committees, according to the article, offer an alternative and participatory view of governance in the current era of political growth. This article traces the roots of the modern administrative state back to the petitions process and draws on an original database of more than 500,000 petitions submitted to Congress from its inception to 1950. This institutional history provides a deeper functional and textual understanding of administration. The current crises of economic inequality and the erosion of democracy force us to go beyond legal orientations that favor efficiency, neutrality and apolitical governance. This feature suggests new directions and questions for science about « law and political economy, » which suggests rather real. The American Journal of Legal History is a peer-reviewed legal journal. It has been published quarterly since 1957. It was the first English-language journal devoted exclusively to the history of law.
It has been published by Oxford University Press since 2016. [1] In their seminal work on the evolution of the growth of American legal history as a field of study, Professors William E. Nelson and John Phillip Reid noted that the journal is « a publication in which academic historians speak to each other. [and] virtually every one of the journal`s many articles [is] an important read for those who want to stay up to date in the field. [16] Printed copies of the magazine can be purchased from W.S. Hein & Co., Inc. Electronic copies of the journal are available on the journal`s website,[17] as well as on EBSCO, HeinOnline, JSTOR, LexisNexis and Westlaw. 112 Yale L.J. 925 (2003)In this review by Lawrence M. Friedman`s American Law in the Twentieth Century, I will begin in the first part with an overview of the different « schools » of American legal history that gained prominence in the years following World War II, using a suggestive framework that was first proposed. This article contains the first history of gender discrimination in public housing.
Fifty years ago, bars displayed signs « only for men. » Women have a secondary status in leisure, professional and financial institutions. In the 1970s, feminists challenged this discrimination. Gender equality has arrived. The dominant narratives of Warren Court`s due process revolution highlight how it restricted police behavior. This essay challenges this report. It returns to pre-revolution legal culture and focuses on three lectures by the eminent scholar Jerome Hall. Due process, he concludes, as mu. In the standard narrative of the origins of eighteenth-century federalism, the drafters divided government power between two sovereigns to protect individual freedoms.
This article offers an alternative story. He points out that federalism was a form of centralization – a shift in the authority of the diffuse quas. After Hurricanes Irma and Maria, Puerto Ricans faced a vivid reminder of their second-class citizenship. This note traces the development of the island`s civil rights movement through the little-known history of the Puerto Rico Legal Project, revealing the power (and limitations) of the Ri. Federal officials applied a « separate but equal » framework for public housing long after Brown struck down that principle. This administrative regime wrote segregation in American cities and functioned as an effective constitution for decades. This article asks why a Liberal and Reformist agency decided to do this. The conflict between different versions of « originalism » and « living constitutionalism » has long defined the landscape of constitutional theory and practice. In this review of Richard Tuck`s The Sleeping Sovereign, David Grewal and Jedediah Purdy match the distinction between sovereignty and government at the hea. This article reinterprets the debates of the founding period on constitutional interpretation as arguments about their nature.
If it were analogous to public legislation, it would be interpreted pragmatically; If it were more of a private law, it would be interpreted narrowly. This perspective provides an important context for the contemporary. From 1974 to 2015, the journal was published by the George H. Buchanan Company of Logan Township, New Jersey. [13] This note argues that signatures on petitions intended for use in direct democracy processes such as voting initiatives should be subject to public review and disclosure. They should not enjoy protection of freedom of expression that allows for anonymity. Signatures stored in the. This note, which traces the evolution of territorial courts over the past half century, argues that the dominant justifications for denying lifetime ownership by federal judges in U.S. territories are now obsolete. It underlines the central role played by the Conference on Justice in maintaining two separate conferences.
Jed Lewinsohn`s excellent article on consideration offers groundbreaking work on the concept of exchange, but is mistaken in seeing the motivating representation of consideration as ill-suited to doctrine. I argue that the motivating narrative is a more natural justification for both consideration and for. The article traces modern jurisprudence on the separation of powers back to the Court`s response to reconstruction.
