Sandy Levinson has always taken secession arguments seriously. This is, in my eyes, one of his great virtues. There are very few scholars who would... MORE
It was 1804, and Thomas Ruffin, future Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, was having doubts about slavery. Ruffin was a young student... MORE
About twenty-five years ago, in the introduction to his book Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality, Jerry Cohen described encountering an unfamiliar... MORE
At the University of Virginia School of Law, we have recently commemorated the bicentennial of our founding, the centennial of coeducation and the... MORE
Analysis based on Hohfeld’s analytical system shows that liability rules, as defined by Guido Calabresi and A. Douglas Melamed, are a false category... MORE
Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld is well-known for maintaining that various terms in law – “rights,” most prominently – confusingly designate a number of quite... MORE
After reading “Four Fragments,” I returned to the journal I kept as a requirement of Dirk’s course. There, in the very first entry dated February 6,... MORE
For two surreal days this week, I sat next to the family of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson during hearings on her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.... MORE
In Soccer in American Culture: The Beautiful Game's Struggle for Status, G. Edward White seeks to answer two questions. The first is why the sport of... MORE
This symposium about the future of legal pedagogy could not be more timely. Its four thought-provoking papers raise a constellation of questions... MORE
Tort Law and the Construction of Change studies the interaction of law and social change in American history. Tort law—civil law made by judges, not... MORE
This essay details the efforts of William Henry Trescot, "executive agent" for South Carolina, to secure pardons for the state's lowcountry elite... MORE
This article uses history to explore how prominent international lawyers explain seemingly transgressive state behavior. It begins with the Russian... MORE
This essay, written for a symposium honoring John Henry Schlegel, is part intellectual history, part philosophical polemic. It first briefly compares... MORE
