Studies in the Legal History of the South
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 focuses on 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 law and society, comparative analyses with other legal systems, and biographical studies of influential southern jurists and 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, L. Palmer Brown Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities and Chair of the Department of History at Rhodes College, 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. He is coeditor, with Kermit Hall, of Major Problems in American Constitutional History: Documents and Essays, second edition. He is currently writing an undergraduate textbook on the Civil War and Reconstruction period.
Books in this series
Craftsmanship and Character
A History of the Vinson & Elkins Law Firm of Houston, 1917–1997
Harold M. Hyman
Defending Constitutional Rights
Frank M. Johnson
Edited by Tony A. Freyer
Double Character
Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom
Ariela J. Gross
Elbert Parr Tuttle
Chief Jurist of the Civil Rights Revolution
Anne Emanuel
Fathers of Conscience
Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South
Bernie D. Jones
Federal Law and Southern Order
Racial Violence and Constitutional Conflict in the Post-Brown South
Michal R. Belknap
Free to Work
Labor Law, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, 1815–1880
James D. Schmidt
From Maverick to Mainstream
Cumberland School of Law, 1847–1997
David J. Langum and Howard P. Walthall
Gateway to Justice
The Juvenile Court and Progressive Child Welfare in a Southern City
Jennifer Trost
The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871–1872
Lou Falkner Williams
An Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery in the United States of America
Thomas R. R. Cobb
Introduction by Paul Finkelman
Jury Discrimination
The Supreme Court, Public Opinion, and a Grassroots Fight for Racial Equality in Mississippi
Christopher Waldrep
The Legal Ideology of Removal
The Southern Judiciary and the Sovereignty of Native American Nations
Tim Alan Garrison
Local Matters
Race, Crime, and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century South
Edited by Christopher Waldrep and Donald G. Nieman
Origins of the Dred Scott Case
Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837–1857
Austin Allen
The Reconstruction of Southern Debtors
Bankruptcy after the Civil War
Elizabeth Lee Thompson
The Rise of Judicial Management in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1955–2000
Steven Harmon Wilson
Slave Laws in Virginia
Philip J. Schwarz
The Southern Judicial Tradition
State Judges and Sectional Distinctiveness, 1790–1890
Timothy S. Huebner
States’ Laws on Race and Color
Pauli Murray
Introduction by Davison M. Douglas
The Trial of Democracy
Black Suffrage and Northern Republicans, 1860–1910
Xi Wang
Series Editors
Paul Finkelman
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