UGA Press-Series

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, 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. He coedited, with Kermit Hall, the second edition of Major Problems in American Constitutional History: Documents and Essays. 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.

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

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