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21 Mar 2023, 7:01 am
Here are this year's 5 recent books: James Fleming, Constructing Basic Liberties: A Defense of Substantive Due Process (2022) Paul Moreno, How the Court Became Supreme: The Origins of American Juristocracy (2022) Vincent Philip Munoz, Religious Liberty and the American Founding (2022) Justin Dyer & Kody Cooper, The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics (2022) Kermit Roosevelt, The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story (2022) I select books I… [read post]
17 Feb 2023, 9:30 pm
On Monday, February. 20, Paul Finkelman will present the 2022-23 Rydell Professorship Public Lecture, Thomas Jefferson: Apostle of Liberty or Father of American Racism? [read post]
11 Jan 2023, 6:30 am
Paul Finkelman, Making Constitutional and Legal Sense of Secession and the Problem of Crybaby Losers of a Legitimate Election4. [read post]
8 Jan 2023, 6:30 am
Another old friend, Paul Finkelman, appears to agree, inasmuch as he presents an eloquent brief on behalf of the suppression of Southern independence. [read post]
3 Jan 2023, 6:30 am
Paul Finkelman Some political theorists, constitutional scholars, and historians argue secession was legitimate, legal, or at least constitutionally permissible. [read post]
2 Jan 2023, 6:00 am
The roundtable includes essays from Erin Delaney (Northwestern University), Paul Finkelman (Gustavus Adolphus College), Alison LaCroix (University of Chicago), Cynthia Nicoletti (University of Virginia), and Rebecca Zietlow (University of Toledo), as well as a response from Sandy Levinson (University of Texas at Austin). [read post]
24 Jun 2022, 6:30 am
Sanford Levinson This post was prepared for a roundtable on Law, Literature, and Other Performing Arts, convened as part of LevinsonFest 2022. [read post]
14 Jun 2022, 2:29 pm
Maryland (2019) 2020: Paul Finkelman, Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation's Highest Court (2017) Eric Segall, Originalism as Faith (2018) Greg Weiner, The Political Constitution: The Case Against Judicial Supremacy (2019) Robert Ross, The Framers' Intentions: The Myth of the Nonpartisan Constitution (2019) Jack Balkin, The Cycles of Constitutional Time (2020) 2019: Neal Devins, The Company They Keep: How Partisan… [read post]
3 Jun 2022, 10:15 am
Feldman takes up the cudgel wielded in recent years by scholars like Paul Finkelman and activist-journalists like Nikole Hannah-Jones. [read post]
22 Sep 2021, 7:00 am
Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Myra Bradwell, Leaving Our Foremothers to Rely on White Knights”Paul Finkelman, Chancellor- Gratz College- “The First Civil Rights Movement: Deconstructing Chief Justice Taney's Misunderstanding About Slavery, Race, and the American Founding”Amanda Frost, Professor of Law and Government, American University Washington College of Law- “Seizing Citizenship: Lydia Hamilton Smith, Thaddeus Stevens, and the Pathway… [read post]
19 Jun 2021, 4:21 am
From the Atlantic here. [read post]
18 Jun 2021, 10:21 am
America’s ‘Great Chief Justice’ Was an Unrepentant Slaveholder By Paul Finkelman, President, Gratz College Paul Finkelman writes that John Marshall, the Chief Justice in the early 1800s, owned many slaves, consistently ruled in favor of slaveholders while on the Supreme Court, and authored racist opinions about Native Americans—and argues we must honestly confront these aspects of Marshall’s legacy. [read post]
15 Jun 2021, 7:34 am
Here’s the Tuesday morning read: Race, Drugs And Sentencing At the Supreme Court (Nina Totenberg, NPR) Why The Supreme Court May Be Poised To Deliver The Religious Right A Big Victory (Kimberly Winston, FiveThirtyEight) America’s ‘Great Chief Justice’ Was an Unrepentant Slaveholder (Paul Finkelman, The Atlantic) The Supreme Court shouldn’t take up the Harvard affirmative action case (Editorial, Los Angeles Times) DOJ asks Supreme Court to reinstate… [read post]
17 May 2021, 1:01 am
As Paul Finkelman writes in “Remembering the Negro Leagues,” an essay for the Oxford African American Studies Center, “Before 1900 [only] a few black players could be found in the major leagues. [read post]
9 May 2021, 9:30 pm
It appears in the series Southern Legal Studies, edited by Paul Finkelman and Timothy S. [read post]
13 Apr 2021, 6:30 am
Gabriel Jackson Chin, University of California, Davis School of Law, and Paul Finkelman, Gratz College, have posted Birthright Citizenship, Slave Trade Legislation, and the Origins of Federal Immigration Regulation, which is forthcoming in volume 54 of the UC Davis Law Review (2021):In accord with the traditional restriction of citizenship of nonwhites, for decades some conservative lawmakers and scholars have urged Congress to deny citizenship to U.S.- born children of… [read post]
9 Apr 2021, 12:30 pm
Please join us on Zoom from 12 – 2 pm ET for an event commemorating this momentous occasion and featuring scholars and litigators including Paul Finkelman, Fred Smith, Kelsi Brown Corkran, and Victor Fleitas. [read post]
22 Feb 2021, 4:25 pm
Edited by legal historian Paul Finkelman, this collection has statutes, cases, scholarly articles, books (from University of North Carolina Press), and an extensive bibliography. [read post]
9 Nov 2020, 10:30 am
Legal historian Paul Finkelman has observed that Marshall bought and sold many slaves throughout his life, freed virtually none of them upon his death, and repeatedly ruled in favor of slaveowners — including overruling a prior decision against international slave trade in the 1825 case known as The Antelope (which took its name from the ship at issue in the case). [read post]
1 Oct 2020, 2:50 pm
" Paul Finkelman takes the opposite perspective: Before any institution decides to part ways with the Marshall name, Finkelman recommends they have a large, public dialogue about the man—both his contributions to the court and the actions he took outside its walls. [read post]
