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Read "Liquidity: Water and Investment in Mandate Palestine" by Cristina Violante in LSI 47 (2). Violante was the 2020 winner of LSI's Graduate Student Paper Competition. bit.ly/3r2Pxan

Reflections on 'real change' and history made by first Black woman to the Supreme Court dlvr.it/SNkXtM

In a new issue, Law & Social Inquiry features B. Schonthal’s “The Case for Religious Constitutions”. By focusing on Sri Lanka, the article argues for scholars to view religion and constitutional law as homologous forms of social ordering. Read here: bit.ly/3u5mEwn

In “Lawfare and Security Labor”, published in LSI’s recent issue, B. Jauregui uses ethnographic observations, interviews, and archival documents from India to learn which labor rights police workers have and how they are legally delimited. More here: bit.ly/3x5Hy02

“Sex Ambiguity in Early Modern Common Law” by M. Sudai, from LSI’s newest issue, tells the story of the regulation of cases of doubtful sex (people then referred to as hermaphrodites) between 1629 and 1787 in England and Colonial America. More here: bit.ly/3u390cQ

In the freshly released article, “Competing Allies”, Sagnik Dutta 🌈 explores the modalities of interaction among nonstate actors who adjudicate Muslim personal law in India and delineates how gendered agency is shaped in these interactions. Read here: bit.ly/3qYVrZY

Read about "The Coevolution of Public and Private Security in Nineteenth-Century Chicago" by Jonathan Obert for historical context. Open Access Article available here: bit.ly/PublicPrivateS…

In “Liquidity: Water and Investment in Mandate Palestine”, featured in the LSI’s most recent issue, Cristina Violante examines two legalized methods of exclusion through which Zionist settlers appropriated water in Mandate Palestine. More here: bit.ly/3r2Pxan

My new article “Long-Term Contractual Commitments and Our Future Selves”, co-authored with Tamar Kricheli-Katz 🟣, is now available in the Law & Social Inquiry’s FirstView at doi.org/10.1017/lsi.20….

In the newly published article “How Civility Matters in Civil Matters”, Stanisław Burdziej et al. consider whether distributive justice and the effectiveness of authorities are more important in civil courts and post-transition societies. Read here: bit.ly/3x1E9Q0

In the newly published article, “Punishment by Association”, Erin Eife and Beth Richie bridge literatures between secondary prisonization and procedural punishment to show how legal bystanders experience punishment when attending bond court. More here: bit.ly/37fVwSl

Christopher W. Schmidt Christopher Schmidt, Using the Past legalhist.jotwell.com/using-the-past/ reviewing Sarah A. Seo, A User’s Guide to History, in Research Handbook on Modern Legal Realism (Shauhin Talesh, Elizabeth Mertz, & Heinz Klug eds., 2021), available at SSRN.

Schmidt on Brown, History, and the Fourteenth Amendment Christopher Schmidt Chicago-Kent Law Nᴏᴛʀᴇ Dᴀᴍᴇ L. Rᴇᴠ. (Notre Dame Law Review) – Hedgehogs and Foxes hedgehogsandfoxes.org/index.php/2022… via HedgehogsandFoxes

My last 1L "Critical Legal Thought" class today, teaching Christopher Schmidt's "Conceptions of Law in the Civil Rts Mvt". I break class into 3 gps, folk-ways, state-ways, & radical activists re ss marriage & abortion, & they apply Christopher Schmidt's analysis. Thanks for this article! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Christopher W. Schmidt Christopher Schmidt, Felix Frankfurter Reconsidered legalhist.jotwell.com/felix-frankfur… reviewing Brad Snyder, Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment (2022).

Sharing an opportunity from our friends at ASLH/Legal History Blog for scholars who have finished a PhD and are working to publish a first book in legal history. 📚 Apply by 7/14 to work w/ senior scholars as you develop a proposal and learn about publishing. aslh.net/award/wallace-…

Law & Social Inquiry Editor Christopher Schmidt (Christopher Schmidt) discussing "Publishing in Socio-Legal Friendly Journals: Meet the Editors and Get Advice on Publishing" on a professional development panel at #LSASanJuan. #LSA2023 Law and Society

Although interracial marriages had been legal in Illinois since 1870, this article reveals how Progressive Era judges and police officers in Chicago separated moral and immoral relationships along racial lines. #FirstView Cambridge University Press cambridge.org/core/journals/…

The 2022 winners of LSI's Graduate Student Paper Competition, Ryan Goehrung and Rachel Castellano of UW Polisci Seattle, are now published! Read "Misrecognitions of Victimhood" here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

🎉🍾PUBLICATION DAY! 🎉🥳 After years, my University of California Press (is on Bluesky) book, Rᴏᴛ ᴀɴᴅ Rᴇᴠɪᴠᴀʟ: Tʜᴇ Hɪsᴛᴏʀʏ ᴏғ Cᴏɴsᴛɪᴛᴜᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ Lᴀᴡ ɪɴ Aᴍᴇʀɪᴄᴀɴ Pᴏʟɪᴛɪᴄᴀʟ Dᴇᴠᴇʟᴏᴘᴍᴇɴᴛ, is out in the world! So grateful for all the support that made it possible. amazon.com/dp/0520394194?…