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Deer in England, Fallen Wood in Germany, Pigs in New York:

Karl Marx, E. P. Thompson, and Hendrik Hartog on Custom, Law, and the Poor * Basak Kus is Professor of Government at Wesleyan University, where she teaches historical and comparative political economy, public policy, and law. She is the author of Disembedded: Regulation, Crisis, and Democracy in the Age of Finance (Oxford University Press), and numerous articles...

Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: An Interview with Anna O. Law

Anna O. Law is an associate professor of political science and the Herbert Kurz Chair of Constitutional Rights at CUNY Brooklyn College. Editor’s Note: In March 2026, Oxford University Press published Anna O. Law’s long-awaited book Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship. It sold out its first run and The Docket staff was able...