A number of other books in which law is important have won lately -- including Stephen Hahn's A Nation Under Our Feet (about Jim Crow) in 2004, David Blight's Race and Reunion (about reconciliation in the wake of the Civil War) in 2001, Linda Gordon's The Great Arizona Orphen Abduction in 2000, Roger Lane's The Roots of Black Violence in 1987 and Kenneth Jackson's Crabgrass Frontiers -- a book I have assigned to my first years in property a couple of times… [read post]

 The California Supreme Court squashed the practice in about 30-days, voiding all the marriage licenses issued as a result of Gavin's project.In a May 2008 change of course, the California Supreme Court decided (4-3) the case known as In Re Marriage Cases, holding that any California laws, "that treat persons differently because of their sexual orientation should be subjected to strict scrutiny... [read post]

Glendon, who became visiting professor of law at Harvard in 1974 and a full professor there in 1986, is an anti-abortion scholar and an opponent of gay marriage who also has written on the effects of divorce and increased litigation on society. [read post]