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| Studies in the Legal History of the South Paul Finkelman and Timothy S. Huebner, Series Editors | (Finkelman) phone: 518-445-3386 email: pfink@albanylaw.edu (Huebner) | |
| This series explores the ways in which law has affected the development of the southern United States and, in turn,the ways the history of the South has affected the development of American law. Each volume in the series focuseson a specific aspect of the law, such as slave law or civil-rights legislation, or on a broader topic of historical significance to the development of the legal system in the region, such as issues of constitutional history and of lawand society, comparative analyses with other legal systems, and biographical studies of influential southern juristsand lawyers. Paul Finkelman is the President William McKinley Professor of Law and Public Policy and senior fellow in the Government Law Center at Albany Law School. He has published more than twenty books, one hundred articles, and numerous op-eds on the law of American slavery, the First Amendment, American race relations, American legal history, the U.S. Constitution, freedom of religion, and baseball and the law. He is currently writing a history of John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry. Timothy S. Huebner, associate professor of history at Rhodes College in Memphis, specializes in the history of the American South and United States constitutional and legal history. He is the author of The Southern Judicial Tradition: State Judges and Sectional Distinctiveness 1790-1890 and The Taney Court: Justices, Rulings, Legacy. Huebner also serves as director of the Rhodes Institute for Regional Studies. He is currently writing an undergraduate textbook on the Civil War and Reconstruction period. Recently published in the series | ||
| Origins of the Dred Scott Case Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837–1857 Austin Allen "Austin Allen has written an absolutely superb, and original, book that is full of extraordinarily clearly presented insights about the various legal contexts within which the Dred Scott litigation occurred and was decided by the Supreme Court. Anyone interested in the development of American constitutional law and the role of the Supreme Court must read this book." ISBN 978-0-8203-2653-5 $59.95 hardcover |
Double Character Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom Ariela J. Gross "Gross adds depth and complexity to our understanding of slavery's social and cultural framework, and of the tensions and contradictions slavery created in its American setting. . . . She provides valuable insight into the uses of paternalism as a perspective for understanding slavery and even into the professionalization of medicine, as it grew out of the requirements of southern slave law." ISBN 978-0-8203-2860-7 $22.95 paperback | |
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