Instructor: Dr. Phil Roberts
Class Meeting Time: M, W, F, 2:10-3 p.m., 208 Business Bldg.
Office: 356 History Bldg.
E-mail address: philr@uwyo.edu
Office Hours: M, W, 10-Noon, and by appointment
COURSE OBJECTIVE AND PROCEDURE: This course is designed to provide students with a historical overview of American law. The course will combine common readings with general lectures, student-directed discussions, and student reports on individually-assigned readings. The reading will be extensive, but not difficult. There is no presumption of knowledge of legal terminology nor is there any assumption that students plan careers in the law. Because the course is designed as a reading and discussion course, relentless attendance is expected.
REQUIRED TEXTS: (common readings)
Lawrence Firedman, History of American Law, 3rd ed., rev., (Touchstone Books, Simon and Schuster, 2005). ISBN-13: 9780684869888
Brian R. Dirck, Lincoln, the Lawyer. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008). I ISBN-13: 9780252076145S
Also occasional cases, articles from history journals, or book chapters on relevant topics will be assigned as common readings. The citations will be announced in class and most will be accessible on the internet.
ASSIGNED INDIVIDUAL READINGS: Each student will be responsible for reading and reporting on at least two designated books before mid-term and two designated books after mid-term. Choices will be made from a list of books, from six categories before mid-term and six after mid-term, supplied by the instructor. Each student will be responsible for checking her/his books from the library or having them sent via interlibrary borrowing early enough to do the reading and oral reporting on the assigned day. No two students may read the same work. At the mid-term exam, students will turn in a coherently written 3-4 page, analytical review of the two books they read to that point. The reviews for the next two will be due on the day of the final exam.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS: All students will be responsible for the common readings. Each student will be expected to respond to inquiries relating to the readings as well as to be available to lead class discussion on at least one general section of the common reading during the course of the semester. Substantial penalties will be assessed if a student is not prepared on the evenings that any of the individual recitations are due. The first third of the semester will involve careful reading of and discussion about chapters from the common text. During the rest of the semester, the chronological approach will not be used. We will discuss legal history issues by broad topic. This will require not only reading from the common text, but also additional individual readings to be assigned by the professor.
ADDITIONAL GRADUATE STUDENT REQUIREMENTS:
Graduate students will read the same common readings as undergraduates, but also be assigned a topic for a research paper (or substantial additional reading) involving some aspect of legal history. During the course of the semester, each graduate student will be assigned a topic on which she/he will direct the discussion for the evening. Ideally, this will be done for the topic on which the graduate student will be doing additional reading and/or the term paper.
The term paper, the topic to be chosen in consultation with the instructor, will be due during finals week and will require significant research of primary documents as well as other sources such as court decisions.
EXAMS AND GRADES:
Undergraduates: An in-class, mid-term exam, 20%; attendance, participation, and informed discussion, 20%; analytical reviews, 20%; final exam, 40%.
Graduate students: Term paper, 50%; attendance, participation, and informed discussion, 15%, final exam, 35%. (Note that graduate students will be conducting research during the mid-term exam and are not expected to sit for that exam).
GUEST SPEAKERS: The class may 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.
GRADUATE STUDENT TERM PAPER TOPICS:
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 on request.
ASSIGNMENTS FROM THE COMMON READINGS AND LECTURES
Week 1: (Aug. 29-31): Introduction.
Reading: Friedman, Prologue, and pp. 3-61
No Class on Sept. 5–Labor Day
Week 2: (Sept. 7-9): Early American Law; Law and the Economy
Reading: Friedman, pp. 65-139
Week 3: (Sept. 12-16): Laws of Personal Status: Wives, Paupers and Slaves
Reading: Friedman, pp. 140-166; 367-389; 576-582.
Week 4: (Sept. 19-23): Property/Resource Law/The Frontier
Reading: Friedman, pp. 167-206; 253-278; 309-328
Week 5: (Sept. 26-30): Labor Law; Law of Personal Injury, Negligence, Tort, Insurance
Reading: Friedman, pp. 222-225; 350-366; 516-523
Week 6: (Oct. 3-7): Corporations and Business; Administrative Law and Regulation
Reading: Friedman, pp. 329-349; 390-433; 503-523
Sarah Gorin, “Wyoming’s Wealth for Wyoming’s People: Ernest Wilkerson and the Severance Tax,” Annals of Wyoming (1988).
Week 7: (Oct. 10-12): Criminal Law,
Reading: Friedman, pp. 207-222; 434-462
Fri., Oct. 14: MID-TERM EXAM distributed. Due: Mon., Oct. 17, 2:10 p.m.
Week 8: (Oct. 17-21): Prisons and Incarceration
Reading: Friedman, pp. 567-575
Week 9: (Oct. 24-28): Civil Rights and Race.
Reading: Friedman, pp. 523-537
Week 10: (Oct. 31-Nov. 4): Civil Liberties, the International Community; “War on Terrorism” and Moves Toward an Authoritarian State
Reading: Phil Roberts, “Murder in the Freeze-outs: Loyalty, Sedition, and Vigilante Justice in World War I Wyoming,” Annals of Wyoming 85 (Winter 2013), pp. 2-21.
Week 11: (Nov. 7-11): Lawyers, the Bar, Legal Education and Theory.
Friedman, pp. 226-249; 463-500
Brian R. Dirck, Lincoln, the Lawyer (all)
Week 12: (Nov. 14-18): Media Law, Free Speech
Week 13 (Nov. 21): Copyright
Nov. 23, 25: NO CLASS. Thanksgiving Break.
Week 14: (Nov. 28-Dec. 2) Judges and Courts
Each student will be assigned to read a brief article-length biography of a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and report her/his findings in class.
Reading: Friedman, pp. 279-308; 538-553; Wyoming Bluebook I, pp. 111-36; Wyoming Almanac, p. 256, (1st women jurors).
Rebecca Wunder Thomson, “History of Territorial Federal Judges for the Territory of Wyoming, 1869-1890,” Land and Water Law Review 17 (1982) pp. 567-619.
Week 15: (Dec. 5-9) Wyoming Law in the American Legal Context
Reading: Phil Roberts, “Regulating Liquor: Prohibition Enforcement, Official Corruption, and State Effort to Control Alcohol after Prohibition Repeal,” Wyoming Law Review 12 (2012), pp. 389-451.
ASSIGNED INDIVIDUAL READINGS: (1st half of the semester)
Week 3: 4 books
ones, Mutiny on the Amistad
Alexander, Notorious Woman: The Celebrated Case of Myra Clark Gaines
Riley, Divorce: An American Tradition
Carp, Adoption in America
Week 4: 3 books
Slaughterhouse Cases
Bringhurst, Antitrust and the Oil Monopoly: The Standard Oil Cases
Salmon, Women and the Law of Property
Week 5: 4 books
Fine, Laissez-Fair and the General Welfare State
Whiteside, Regulating Danger: The Struggle for Mine Safety
Fishback and Kantor. Prelude to the Welfare State
Papke, The Pullman Case
Week 6: 4 books
Balleisen, Navigating Failure:
McGinty, Lincoln’s Greatest Case:
Ely, Railroads and American Law
White. Railroaded:
Week 7: 7 books
Fisher, Plea Bargaining’s Triumph:
Conforti, Lizzie Borden on Trial: Murder, Ethnicity and Gender
Brown, No Duty of Retreat:
Metz,. The Last Eleven Days of Earl Durand
Friendman, The Big Trial: Law as a Public Spectacle
Howell. A History of Street Gangs in the United States:
Reid, Patterns of Vengeance.
2nd Half of the Semester
Week 9: Civil Rights and Race
Perman, Struggle for Mastery
Wolf, Trial and Error
Week 10: Native Peoples
Religious Freedom and Indian Rights
Madley, An American Genocide
Skogen, Indian Depredation Claims
Week 11: Civil Liberties
Barkan, Protesters on Trial
Charns, Cloak and Gavel
Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover
Irons, Justice at War
McDaniel, Dying for Joe McCarthy’s Sins
Muller, American Inquisition
Sears, Arresting Dress
Wills, Head and Heart
Week 12: Lawyers and Legal Profession
Bell, Philadelphia Lawyer
Harbaugh, Lawyer’s Lawyer
Haywood, Cowtown Lawyers
Waller, Thurman Arnold
Week 13: Media Law
Friendly, Minnesota Rag
Kalven, A Worthy Tradition
Rabban, Free Speech in its Forgotten Years
Rudenstine, The Day the Presses Stopped
Work, Darkest Before Dawn
READING LIST: American Legal History
READING LIST FOR SECOND HALF OF SEMESTER:
From the below list for the rest of the semester, select FIVE books, no more than three from the same list.. You will submit the list to your professor who will then designate which two of the five you will be reporting on during the second half of the semester.. Please bring your list of five to class on Friday, Oct. 21, or send it to: philr@uwyo.edu , before Oct. 21, 1 p.m. We will determine the individual readings during class on Oct. 21.
Week 9: (Oct. 24-28): Civil Rights and Race.
eading: Friedman, pp. 523-537
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.
Carrigan, William D., and Clive Webb. Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence Against Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1928. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). E184.M5 C3675 2013
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
Dudziak, Mary L. Cold War Civil Rights. (Princeton University Press, 2000). E185.61 .D85 2000
Freyer, Tony. Little Rock on Trial: Cooper v. Aaron and School Desegregation. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007). KF228 C6545 F74
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.
Gyory, Andrew. Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1998). E184 C5 G9 1998
Haney-Lopez, Ian. Race, Law and Society. (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2007). KF 4755 R334
Haney Lopez, Ian. White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race. (New York: NYU Press, 2006). KF 4755 H36 2006
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 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.
Langum, David J. Law and Community on the Mexican California Frontier: Anglo-American Expatriates and the Clash of Legal Traditions, 1821-1846. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987). KFC 78 .L33 1987
Litwack, Leon F. Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow. (New York: Knopf, 1999). E185.6 L58
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
Perry, Barbara A. The Michigan Affirmative Action Cases. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007).KF228.G78 P47 2007
Romano, Renee. Racial Reckoning: Prosecuting America’s Civil Rights Murders. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014). KF221.M8 R66 2014
Salyer, Lucy E. Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern American Immigration Law. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1995) KF4845 S25
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
Woodman, Harold D. New South, New Law: The Legal Foundations of Credit and Labor Relations in the Postbellum Agricultural South. (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1995) KF1682 .W66 1995
Yarbrough, Tinsley E. Race and Redistricting: The Shaw-Cromartie Cases. (Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2002). KF4905 Y37 2002
(PART II): Law of and about Native Peoples
Banner, Stuart. How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005). E98.L3 B36
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).
Clark, Blue. Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock: Treaty Rights and Indian Law at the End of the 19th Century. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994). KF228 L66 C58
Deloria, Vine, Jr., and Clifford M. Lytle. American Indians, American Justice. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983). KF8224 C6 D44 1983
Gates, Paul W. Land and Law in California: Essays on Land Policies. (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1991). (Not in Coe)
Harring, Sidney L. Crow Dog’s Case: American Indian Sovereignty, Tribal Law, and United States Law in the 19thCentury. (Cambridge University Press, 1994). KF 8205 H37
Kawashima, Yasuhide. Puritan Justice and the Indian: White Man’s Law in Massachusetts, 1630-1763. (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1986). (not in Coe)
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). KF228 O74 L66 Smith case handed down in 1988 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.
McCool, Daniel. Command of the Waters: Iron Triangles, Federal Water Development and Indian Water. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994). HD1694.A5 M4 1994
Madley, Benjamin. An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016).
McKeown, C. Timothy. In the Smaller Scope of Conscience: The Struggle for National Repatriation Legislation, 1986-90. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013).
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 and to the U. S.
Shattuck, George C. The Oneida Land Claims: A Legal History. (Syracuse: Syracuse Univ. Press, 1991). KF8228 O45 A3
Skogen, Larry. Indian Depredation Claims. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996). KF 8208 S57
Washburn, Wilcomb E. Red Man’s Land, White Man’s Law: The Past and Present Status of the American Indians.2nd ed. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994). KF 8205 W38
Williams, Robert A. The American Indian in Western Legal Thought. (New York: Oxford, 1990). KF8205 W547
Wunder, John R. Retained by the People: A History of American Indians the Bill of Rights. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994). KF 8205 W86
Week 10: (Oct. 31-Nov. 4): Civil Liberties, the International Community; “War on Terrorism” and Moves Toward an Authoritarian State
Reading: Phil Roberts, “Murder in the Freeze-outs: Loyalty, Sedition, and Vigilante Justice in World War I Wyoming,” Annals of Wyoming 85 (Winter 2013), pp. 2-21.
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
Farber. Daniel. Lincoln’s Constitution. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003).
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
McDaniel, Rodger. Dying for Joe McCarthy’s Sins: The Suicide of Wyoming Senator Lester Hunt. (Cody: WordsWorth, 2013).
Muller, Eric L. American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007).
Muller, Eric. Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001). D810.C82 M85 2001
O’Brien, Ruth. Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace. (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2001). HD7256 U5 O27 2001
Sears, Clare. Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law and Fascination in 19th Century San Francisco. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015).
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
Wills, Garry. Head and Heart: American Christianities. (New York: Penguin, 2007).BR515 .W494 2007
Week 11: (Nov. 7-11): Lawyers, the Bar, Legal Education and Theory.
Reading: Friedman, pp. 226-249; 463-500
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
Bell, Robert R. The Philadelphia Lawyer: A History, 1735-1945. (Selinsgrove : Susquehanna University Press, 1992) KFP78 B45
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. Not in Coe.
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
LaPiana, William P. Logic and Experience: The Origin of Modern American Legal Education. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), Not in Coe
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 of law in novels.
Pue, W. Wesley. Lawyers’ Empire: Legal Professions and Cultural Authority, 1780-1950 (UBC Press, 2016).
Shamir, Ronen. Managing Legal Uncertainty: Elite Lawyers in the New Deal. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995). Not in Coe
Stolberg, Mary M. Fighting Organized Crime: Politics, Justice and the Legacy of Thomas E. Dewey. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1995). HV6795 N5 S86
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. Not in Coe
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). Not in Coe
Veenswijk, Virginia Kays. Coudert Brothers: A Legacy in Law. (New York : Truman Talley Books/Dutton (1994). Not in Coe
Waller, Spencer Weber. Thurman Arnold: A Biography. (New York: NYU Press, 2005). KF373.A7 W35 2005
Wiecek, William M. The Lost World of Classical Legal Thought: Law and Ideology in America, 1886-1937. (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998). Legal theory. Not in Coe
Week 12: (Nov. 14-18) Media Law, Free Speech,
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.
Friedman, Lawrence M. Guarding Life’s Dark Secrets: Legal and Social Controls over Reputation, Propriety and Privacy. (Stanford University Press, 2007).
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.
Hoffer, Peter C. The Free Press Crisis of 1800: Thomas Cooper’s Trial for Seditious Libel. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2011). KF223.C653 H64 2011
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
Kluger, Richard. Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America’s Free Press. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2016).
Polenberg, Richard. Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, the Supreme Court and Free Speech. (N.Y: Viking, 1988). KF224 A34 P65
Rudenstine, 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
Work, Clemens P. Darkest Before Dawn: Sedition and Free Speech in the American West. (Albuquerque: UNM Press, 2005). JC599 U52 M98
Week 13 (Nov. 21): Copyright
Abramson, Bruce D. The Secret Circuit: The Little-Known Court Where the Rules of the Information Age Unfold.(Rowman and Littlefield, 2006). Patent court story.
Goldstein, Paul. Copyright’s Highway: From Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2003). KF2994 G654
Nov. 23, 25: NO CLASS. Thanksgiving Break.
Week 14: (Nov. 28-Dec. 2) Judges and Courts Reading: Friedman, pp. 279-308; 538-553 Other Common Readings: Wyoming Bluebook I, pp. 111-36; Wyoming Almanac, p. 256, (1st women jurors).
Rebecca Wunder Thomson, “History of Territorial Federal Judges for the Territory of Wyoming, 1869-1890,” Land and Water Law Review 17 (1982) pp. 567-619. Particularly note the paragraphs on William Ware Peck who was “sagebrushed” for being pro-temperance, arrogant, demanding, and who expected exact procedures even in the frontier settin. He attacked fellow justices, criticized Corlett, Warren, and other prominent politicians. His behavior is a classic example of how not to get off to a good start in Wyoming.
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 Iconoclast 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
Gutfeld, Arnon. Treasure State Justice: Judge George M. Bourquin, Defender of the Rule of Law. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2013). KF368.B68 G88 2013
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). KF373.K558.A3 2002
Kens, Paul. Justice Stephen Field: Shaping Liberty from the Gold Rush to the Gilded Age. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997). KF8745 F5 K46
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).KF8745 B68 M53
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
Polenberg, Richard. The World of Benjamin Cardozo: Personal Values and the Judicial Process. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997) KF8745.C3 P59 1997
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.
Toobin, Jeffrey. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court. (New York: Doubleday, 2007). KF8748 .T66 2007
White, G. Edward, The Constitution and the New Deal. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000). KF4541 W48
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
Week 15: (Dec. 5-9) Wyoming in the Context of American Legal History
Individual readings: TBA
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BOOKS ASSIGNED FOR THE FIRST HALF OF THE SEMESTER
From this list for five weeks, select EIGHT book, at least one from each week’s readings. You will submit the list to your professor who will then designate which two of the eight you will be reporting on for the first half of the semester. A similar list will be provided for the second half of the semester. Please send your list of eight to: philr@uwyo.edu before Tuesday, Sept. 6, 1 p.m.
Week 3 (Sept. 12-16): Laws of Personal Status: Wives, Paupers and Slaves
Reading: Friedman, pp. 140-166; 367-389; 576-582.
Benedict, Michael Les. The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson. (New York: Norton, 1972). E666B46 1973 Impeachment is a remedy provided in the Constitution, not something to be avoided at any cost even though the wrong-doing committed by a public official is obvious and egregious.
Blassingame, John W. The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. (New York: Oxford, 1972). E443 B55
Blight, David W. A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation. (New York: Harcourt, 2007). E450.W323 B 58 2007
Brophy, Alfred L. University, Court and Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of the Civil War. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016). KF4545.S5 B76 2016
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
Finkelman, Paul. Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson. (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2014). KF4545.S5 F565 2014
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). KF4893 G65 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
Gross, Ariela. Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom. (Princeton University Press, 2000). KF482 G76 2000
Gross, Ariela. What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008). KF4755 G76 2008
Hadden, Sally E. Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas. (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2001). E443 H33 2001
Hamilton, Daniel W. The Limits of Sovereignty: Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War. (University of Chicago Press, 2007). KF7221.H36 2007
Hindus, Michael S. Prison and Plantation: Crime, Justice and Authority in Massachusetts and South Carolina, 1767-1878. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1980) HV8145 S6 H56
Hoffer, Peter Charles. The Great New York Conspiracy of 1741: Slavery, Crime, and Colonial Law. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003). KFN 5696.A4 H64 2003
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
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
Morris, Thomas D. Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996)KF482 .M67 1996
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.
Rivers, Larry Eugene. Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000) E445 F6 R58
Schafer, Judith Kelleher. Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1846-1862. (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2003). F739 N59 N445
Schmidt, James D. Free to Work: Labor Law, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, 1815-1880. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998). KF3457 S36 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 and not exactly focused on law, but a classic nonetheless. Must be read with another work to count)
Tragle, Henry Irving. The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831: A Compilation. (New York: Vintage, 1971). F232 S7 T7
Von Frank, Albert J. The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson’s Boston. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998).E450.B93 V66 1998
Vorenberg, Michael. Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery and the 13th Amendment. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001). E453.V67 2001 A history of amending the US Constitution is included here in this study of the 13th Amendment.
Waldrep, Christopher. Roots of Disorder: Race and Criminal Justice in the American South, 1817-80. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998). KFM7162 .W35 1998
Weisenburger, Steven. Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998). E450.G225 W45 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
Family Law
Alexander, Elizabeth Urban. Notorious Woman: The Celebrated Case of Myra Clark Gaines. (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2001). KF759.C57 A43 2001 A 60-year effort to gain father’s estate, 1813.
Barnett, Louise. Ungentlemenly Acts: The Army’s Notorious Incest Trial. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2000). KF7642.G43 B37 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
Brewer, Holly. Birth of Consent: Children, Law and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2007). KD735.B74 2005
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).
Carp, E. Wayne. Family Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998). HV875.55 .C38 1998
Carp, E. Wayne. Adoption in America: (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2002). HV875.55 .A3642 2002
Carroll, Mark M. Homesteads Ungovernable: Families, Sex, Race and the Law in Frontier Texas, 1823-1860. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001) HQ536.I5.T4 C37 2001
Chused, Richard H. Private Acts in Public Places: A Social History of Divorce in the Formative Era of American Family Law. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994) KF535.C48 1994
Cott, Nancy F. Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000).HQ536 .C757 2000
Cretney, Stephen. Family Law in the 20th Century: A History. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003). KD750 C693 2003
DiFonzo, Herbie. Beneath the Fault Line: The Popular and Legal Culture of Divorce in 20th Century America. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997) HQ834 D49 1997
Friedman, Lawrence. Private Lives: Families, Individuals and the Law. (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2004)KF505 .F75 2004
Gilfoyle, Timothy J. City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920. (New York: Norton, 1992)HQ146.N7 G55 1992
Gordon, Sarah Barringer. The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in 19th Century America. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2000). KF4783 G67 2002
Grossberg, Michael. Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in 19th Century America. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985). KF 505 .G76 1985
Hall, Timothy L. Separating Church and State: Roger Williams and Religious Liberty. (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1998). KF 4783 H35 1998
Hartog, Hendrik. Man and Wife in America: A History. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000) KF510 .H37 2000
Hartog, Hendrik. Someday All This Will Be Yours: A History of Inheritance and Old Age. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012). KF771.H37 2012
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). KFV2967.S3 P34 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
Riley, Glenda. Divorce: An American Tradition. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991). HQ834 R55
VanBurkleo, Sandra F. Belonging to the World: Women’s Rights and American Constitutional Culture. (New York: Oxford, 2001). KF4758.V36 2001
Zelizer, Viviana A. Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children. (New York: Basic Books, 1985). HQ 792 .U5 Z45 1985
Week 4: (Sept. 19-23): Property/Resource Law/The Frontier
Reading: Friedman, pp. 167-206; 253-278; 309-328
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
Banner, Stuart. American Property: A History of How, Why and What We Own. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011). KF562.B36 2011
Banner, Stuart. How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier.(Cambrdige: Harvard University Press, 2005). E98.L3 B36 2005
Banner, Stuart. Possessing the Pacific: Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008). DU29.B24 2007 Disputes common view that centralized land policies dictated dispositions of local lands.
Bringhurst, Bruce. Antitrust and the Oil Monopoly: The Standard Oil Cases, 1890-1911. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1979). KF1866 S73 B74
Cosens,Barbara and Judith Royster (eds.),The Future of Indians and Federal Reserved Water Rights: The Winters Centennial.(Albuquerque: UNM Press, 2012). KF8210.N37 W56 2008
Ebright, Malcolm. Land Grants and Lawsuits in Northern New Mexico. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994). KFN4055.E27 1994
Fairweather, Joan G. A Common Hunger: Land Rights in Canada and South Africa. (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2006). K738.F35 2006
Ibbetson, D. J. A Historical Introduction to the Law of Obligations. (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999). KD720.I22 1999 Definitive work on the topic.
Hobson, Charles F. The Great Yazoo Lands Sale: The Case of Fletcher v. Peck(Topeka: University Press of Kansas, 2016).
Karsten, Peter. Heart versus Head: Judge-Made Law in 19th Century America. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1997). KF4575.K37 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). HC105.L26 2001
Linklater, Andro. Measuring America: How An Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy. (New York: Plume, 2002) E161.3 L46 2002
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.
McCartney, Laton. The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country. (New York: Random House, 2009). E785.M38 2008
McCurdy, Charles W. The Anti-Rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839-1865. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2001). KFN5145.M33 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). F137 M35
McEvoy, Arthur F. The Fisherman’s Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986). SH222 C3 M36
Miller, M. Catherine. Flooding the Courtrooms: Law and Water in the Far West. (Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1993). KFC162 M54 1993
Nordhauser, Norman. The Quest for Stability: Domestic Oil Regulation, 1917-1935. (New York: Garland, 1979). HD 9566 N67
Reid, John Philip. Law for the Elephant: Property and Social Behavior on the Overland Trail. (San Marino: Huntington Library, 1980). KF366 R43
Pisani, Donald J. Water, Land and Law in the West. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996). HD1695 W4 P57
Rohrbough, Malcolm J. The Land Office Business: The Settlement and Administration of American Public Lands, 1789-1839. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1968). HD216 R68
Salmon, Marylynn. Women and the Law of Property in Early America. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1986). KF524 S24 1986
Taniguchi, Nancy J. Necessary Fraud: Progressive Reform and Utah Coal. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996). HD243.U8 T36 1996
Tyler, Daniel. The Mythical Pueblo Rights Doctrine: Water Administration in Hispanic New Mexico. (El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1990).
Woods, L. Milton Woods, Asmus Boysen and His Dam Problems. (Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, 2013)
Week 5: (Sept. 26-30): Labor Law; Law of Personal Injury, Negligence, Tort, Insurance
Reading: Friedman, pp. 222-225; 350-366; 516-523
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
Bergstrom, Randolph E. Courting Danger: Injury and Law in New York City, 1870-1910. (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1992). KFN5311.B47 1992 Study of personal injury lawsuits and how they were handled in lower courts of New York during the period.
Carlson, Peter. Roughneck: The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood. (New York: Norton, 1983). HD6509 H3 C37 1983 (a sympathetic treatment of the radical labor leader)
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).
Fishback, Price V. and Shawn Everett Kantor. Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers’ Compensation. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006). HD7103.65.U6 F535 2000
Forbath, William E. Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement. (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1991).. HD6510 F67 1991
Hindman, Hugh. Child Labor: An American History. (New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2002) HD6250.U3 H53 2002
Hoffman, Beatrix. The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2001). HG9396 H638 2001
Hunt, Robert S. Law and Locomotives: The Impact of the Railroad on Wisconsin Law in the 19th Century. (Madison: Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1958) KFW2701 H867
Kens, Paul. Judicial Power and Reform Politics: The Anatomy of Lochner v. New York. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1990)KF228.L63 K46 1990
Kens, Paul. Lochner v. New York: Economic Regulation on Trial. (University Press of Kansas, 1998). KF228.L63 K463 1998
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
Novkov, Julie. Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001). KF3555.N68 2001
Papke, David Ray. The Pullman Case: The Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial America. (Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 1999). KF223.D435 P37 1999
Phillips, Michael J. The Lochner Court, Myth and Reality: Substantive Due Process from the 1890s to the 1930s.(Westport: Praeger, 2001). KF4765.P48 2001
Ross, William G. A Muted Fury: Populists, Progressives, and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890-1937. (Princeton Univ. Press, 1993). KF4575 R67 1994
Schmidt, James D. Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010). KF3552.S36 2010
Skocpol, Theda. Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992) HV91 .S56 1992
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). K888.S74 1991
Trattner, Walter I. From Poor Law to Welfare State. 6th rev. ed. (New York: Free Press, 1998). HV91 T7
Welke, Barbara Young. Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920. (Cambridge University Press, 2001). HE2757.W45 2001
White, G. Edward. Tort Law in America. (New York: Oxford, 1980). KF1249 W48 1980 (not in Coe)
Whiteside, James. Regulating Danger: The Struggle for Mine Safety in the Rocky Mountain Coal Industry. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990). TN 295 W43
Wood, Stephen B. Constitutional Politics in the Progressive Era: Child Labor and the Law. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968). KF3552 W66
Week 6: (Oct. 3-7): Corporations and Business; Administrative Law and Regulation
Reading: Friedman, pp. 329-349; 390-433; 503-523
Sarah Gorin, “Wyoming’s Wealth for Wyoming’s People: Ernest Wilkerson and the Severance Tax,” Annals of Wyoming (1988).
Law and the Economy in Early America
Reading: Friedman, pp. 120-139
Balleisen, Edward J. Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2001). Not in Coe.
Banner, Stuart. Anglo-American Securities Regulation: Cultural and Political Roots, 1690-1860. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998). DU 29 B24
Baxter, Maurice. The Steamboat Monopoly: Gibbons v. Ogden. (New York: Knopf, 1972). KF4606 B38 K8
Bodenhorn, Howard. A History of Banking in Antebellum America: Financial Markets and Economic Development in an Era of Nation-Building. (Cambridge University Press, 2000). HG2472 B63 2000
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
Dauber, Michele Landis. The Sympathetic State: Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013). HV91.D348 2013
Ely, James W., Jr. Railroads and American Law. (Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 1999). KF2289 E45 2001
Freyer, Tony A. Harmony and Dissonance: The Swift and Erie Cases in American Federalism, (New York: NYU Press, 1981). KF 5130 .F74
Freyer, Tony A. Anti-Trust and Global Capitalism, 1930-2004. (Cambridge University Press, 2008). K3850.F74 2006
Hartog, Hendrik. Public Property and Private Power: The Corporation of the City of New York in American Law, 1730-1870. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983). KFX2015.H37 1983
Hovenkamp, Herbert. Enterprise and American Law, 1836-1937. (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1991). KF1414.H68 1991
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
Labbe, Ronald M., and Jonathan Lurie. The Slaughterhouse Cases: Reconstruction Politics and the 14th Amendment.(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003) KF228 S545 L33
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
Mann, Bruce H. Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence. (Harvard University Press, 2003). HG3766.M29 2002
McGinty, Brian. Lincoln’s Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge and the Making of America. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2015). KF223.H856 M34 2015
Monroe, Elizabeth Brand. The Wheeling Bridge Case: Its Significance in American Law and Technology. (Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press, 1992). KF5541.W54 M66 1992
Novak, William. The People’s Welfare: Law and Regulation in 19th Century America. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1996)KF366 .N68 1996
Scheiber, Harry N. Ohio Canal Era: A Case Study of Government and the Economy, 1820-1861. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1969). HE395 O47 S3
Seavoy, Ronald F. The Origins of the American Business Corporation, Broadening the Concept of Public Service, 1784-1835. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1982).
Skeel, David A., Jr. Debt’s Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America. (Princeton University Press, 2001). KF1526.S59 2001
Sklar, Martin J. The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916. (Cambridge University Press, 1988).E741 .S55 1992
Stites, Francis N. Private Interest and Public Gain: The Dartmouth College Case, 1819. (Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1972). KF4608 S75
Walterscheid, Edward C. To Promote the Progress of Useful Arts: American Patent Law and Administration, 1789-1836. (Fred B. Rothman and Co., 1998). KF3114.W35 1998
White, Richard. Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2012). HE2751.W55 2011
Administrative Law and Regulation
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.
Cortner, Richard. The Jones and Laughlin Case. (New York: Knopf, 1970). KF3408 C67
Ernst, Daniel R. Tocqueville’s Nightmare: The Administrative State Emerges in America, 1900-1940. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014). JK411.E76 2014
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).
Freyer, Tony. Anti-Trust and Global Capitalism, 1930-2004. (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Hawley, Ellis. The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966). HD3616 U46 H33
Hovenkamp, Herbert. Anti-Trust Enterprise: Principle and Execution.. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005)HF1414 .H68 2005
Lerner, Michael. Dry Manhattan. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007). Prohibition.
Parrish, Michael. Securities Regulation and the New Deal. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970). KF1439 P37 1970
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
Progressive Reform:
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.
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.
Hoogenboom, Ari and Olive. A History of the ICC: From Panacea to Palliative. (New York: Norton, 1976) HE2757 1976 .H66
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.
Week 7: (Oct. 10-12): Criminal Law
Reading: Friedman, pp. 207-222; 434-462
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
Conforti, Joseph A. Lizzie Borden on Trial: Murder, Ethnicity and Gender. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015). KF223.B6 C66 2015
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 The author, a Wyoming lawyer, writes about the last sheep-cattle dispute in Wyoming.
Davis, John W. The Trial of Tom Horn. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016). KF223.H63 D38 2016 This is one of a plethora of books about the legendary gunman, but it concentrates on telling the story through the trial.
Denham, James M. “A Rogue’s Paradise”: Crime and Punishment in Antebellum Florida, 1821-1861. (University of Alabama Press, 2005). HV6793.F6 D46
Fisher, George. Plea Bargaining’s Triumph: A History of Plea-Bargaining in America. (Stanford University Press, 2003). KF9654.F57 2003
Friedman, Lawrence M. The Big Trial: Law as Public Spectacle. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015). KF220.F75 2015
Fyson, Donald. Magistrates, Police and People: Everyday Criminal Justice in Quebec and Lower Canada, 1764-1837. (University of Toronto Press, 2006)
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
Howell, James C. A History of Street Gangs in the United States: Their Origins and Transformations. (New York: Lexington Books, 2015). HV6439.U5 H6794 2015
Hunt, William R. Distant Justice: Policing the Alaskan Frontier. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987). HV 9955 A4 H86
Huseas, Marion McMillan. Legacy of Fear: Mark Hopkinson and the Bridger Valley Murders. (Cheyenne: Marimac Publishing, 2006). HV6533.W8 H87 2006
Lebsock, Suzanne. A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial. (New York: Norton, 2003). HV6533.V8 L43 2003
McKanna, Clare V., Jr. Homicide, Race, and Justice in the American West, 1880-1920. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1997). HV6533 W46 M34
Metz, Jerred. The Last Eleven Days of Earl Durand. (Glendo: High Plains Press, 2005), HV6653.D8 M48 2005
Metz, Leon C. Pat Garrett: The Story of a Western Lawman. (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1974). F801 G3 M47
Mullen, Kevin J. Dangerous Strangers: Minority Newcomers and Criminal Violence in the Urban West, 1850-2000. (New York: Palgrave, 2005). HV6534.S3 M85 2005
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). HM886 P474
Reid, John Philip. Patterns of Vengeance: Crosscultural Homicide in the North American Fur Trade. (Pasadena: 9thJudicial Circuit Historical Society, 1999). F880 R45
Reid, John Philip. Policing the Elephant: Crime, Punishment and Social Behavior on the Overland Trail. (San Marino: Huntington Library, 1997). HV9955 W4 R45
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).
Stevenson, Brenda. The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender and the Origins of the L. A. Riots. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). KF224.D8 S74 2013
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