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16 Feb 2009, 8:02 am
to my post on his Slate essay:... [read post]
1 Nov 2019, 9:30 pm by ernst
ICYMI: John Fabian Witt reviews Eric Foner’s Second Founding in WaPo. [read post]
26 Dec 2013, 9:00 am by Karen Tani
Masur, Lincoln’s Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union (The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2012); Harold Holzer, Emancipating Lincoln: The Proclamation in Text, Context, and Memory (Harvard University Press, 2012); and John Fabian Witt, Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History (Free Press, 2012).In "The Hemings War," Henry Wiencek (independent scholar and author of the controversial Master of the Mountain)… [read post]
3 Aug 2018, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
In an op-ed in the Washington Post, Ian Ayres (Yale Law School) and John Fabian Witt (Yale Law School) offer Democrats a "Plan B" for the Supreme Court. [read post]
27 Dec 2015, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
 In The Wall Street Journal, John Fabian Witt reviews Lisa McGirr's The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State (Norton).The Los Angeles Review of Books has a review of Andrew Cornell's Unruly Equality: U.S. [read post]
10 Jun 2022, 9:30 pm by ernst
Over at Balkinization, John Fabian Witt weighs in. [read post]
1 Nov 2020, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
Novak 5 To Save the Country: Reason and Necessity in Constitutional Emergencies John Fabian Witt 6 Powers of War in Times of Peace: Emergency Powers in the United States after the End of the Civil War Gregory P. [read post]
6 Sep 2019, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
  John Fabian Witt on Tony Kronman on renaming Yale's Calhoun College and Kronman's response (Yale Daily News). [read post]
25 Jan 2019, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
This is a cool one: a senior history major--Denton Ong--made it into the Washington Post's "Made by History" section, with this op-ed on President Trump's authority to declare a national emergency in order to build a border wall.John Fabian Witt, Yale Law School, reviews Richard Brookhiser’s new biography of John Marshall in the New Republic  "The Operative: How John Marshall built the Supreme Court around his political… [read post]
5 Dec 2022, 9:30 pm by ernst
  Articles published in a journal issue that first became available to subscribers or to the public in the year 2022 are eligible for the 2022 prize.To select the winning article, the Foundation has appointed a committee of legal scholars chaired by Cromwell trustee and Yale law professor John Fabian Witt. [read post]
3 Jan 2018, 4:00 am by Karen Tani
  Participants include Amalia Kessler (Stanford Law), Norman Spaulding (Stanford Law), Sarah Barringer Gordon (Penn Law), John Fabian Witt (Yale Law), Laura Kalman (UC Santa Barbara History Dept.), Kenneth W. [read post]
3 Mar 2021, 6:30 am by ernst
Drafting the Preamble to the Irish Constitution     Christopher McCrudden From Disputation Hall to High Office: Swedish Students’ Legal Dissertations at German and Dutch Universities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries     Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen Book Reviews The Historical Logics of Work Accident Law: Nate Holdren, Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and the Law in the Progressive Era    … [read post]
30 Oct 2020, 9:30 pm by ernst
  John Fabian Witt's American Contagions reviews (NYT). [read post]
3 Jun 2022, 9:30 pm by ernst
James Oakes's review in the New York Review of Books of Noah Feldman's The Broken Constitution has brought a reply from Feldman, a response from Oakes--both here--and a comment from John Fabian Witt (Balkinization). [read post]
14 Mar 2014, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
  John Fabian Witt's is due up on March 17.Another former guest blogger, Elizabeth Dale (University of Florida), is currently blogging over at the Faculty Lounge on the theme of "teaching legal history as applied legal history." [read post]
24 Jun 2020, 9:50 am by ernst
  (John Fabian Witt’s short lectures on the legal history of contagious disease in the United States would be an example.) [read post]
19 Mar 2021, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Magdalene Zier (JD/PhD candidate, Stanford University) and John Fabian Witt (Yale Law School) on how, "For 100 years, the filibuster has been used to deny Black rights"; historian Rebecca DeWolf on why "2021 could finally be the moment for the Equal Rights Amendment"; Harrison Diskin (PhD candidate, University of Southern California) and Keith Pluymers (Illinois State University) on… [read post]
11 May 2018, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
The final schedule for the Policy History Conference is here.Over at Balkinization, John Fabian Witt (Yale Law School) reflects on history and the Haspel nomination.ICYMI: The law of spreading false news in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. [read post]
20 Nov 2020, 9:30 pm by ernst
"Ben Ferencz profiled here, and if you don’t know who he is, you should.Over at Yale's Law and Political Economy Project blog: Vanessa Ogle on decolonization and tax haven law.Catch these two new audio interviews at the New Books Network: Nurfadzilah Yahaya here (New Books in the Indian Ocean World) and Sam Childs Fury Daly here (New Books in African Studies).A notice of John Fabian Witt’s American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to… [read post]