Sabeel Rahman, Brooklyn Law, “Transcending the New Deal Idea of the State:Managerialism, Neoliberalism, and Participatory Democracy in the Regulatory State”William Novak, University of Michigan Law School, “Beyond the Idea of the NewDeal State”New Perspectives on New Deal Social Politics Elizabeth Shermer, Loyola University of Chicago, “Indentured Students and MassHigher Education”Mark Santow, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, “Castles… [read post]

"--Gary Gerstle, Vanderbilt University and author of American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century "By dint of creative and exhaustive research, Mary Dudziak has written an excellent book about a facet of Thurgood Marshall's career that has never before received substantial attention. [read post]

  Other confirmed participants include former acting Solicitor General of the United States Walter Dellinger, New York Times immigration reporter Marc Lacey,  14th Amendment experts Peter Schuck (Yale Law School), Garrett Epps (University of Baltimore Law School), and Mark Graber (University of Maryland Law School); noted historians Gary Gerstle (Vanderbilt), David Gutierrez (UCSD), Linda Kerber (Iowa), Heather Cox Richardson (Boston College), Mae Ngai (Columbia), and… [read post]