Professor Robert W. Gordon is the author of dozens of books and articles. The following is only a selective bibliography. Readers will find a complete list of his publications on his curriculum vitae, available on his Stanford Law School faculty page. BOOKS Taming the Past: Essays on Law in History and History in Law. Cambridge…
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Leaving the Fortress of Legal History Behind
“As we all know well, Gordon has done a tremendous amount to bring historiography, and particularly critical historicism, into the fortress of law and legal history….. But Gordon has also played a key role in sending traffic out of the fortress and across the moat, in bringing legal sophistication to ‘general historiography’.”
“I Recommend They Study Bob”
For more than a generation, students have learned what legal history is or can be by reading the essays of Bob Gordon.
The Loyal Critic
In this “toast,” I’d like to say a few words about two of the three words in this panel’s title: Bob Gordon as mensch and Bob Gordon as theoretician. If you’re an untidy character like me, your email inbox probably has many years’ worth of mail in it. One great advantage of this is that…
Wordsmith, Theoretician, Mensch
Editor’s Note: This is an edited transcript of remarks prepared and delivered at Stanford University’s Center for Law and History on January 12, 2008. Lawrence Friedman: Good afternoon. As you know from your program, this is obviously going to be the deepest and most philosophical of the sessions, “Wordsmith, Theoretician, Mensch.” So my task is…
Toasting Robert Gordon
Editor’s Note: Several scholars offered tributes to Robert Gordon outside of the formal program; we present them here. Bob Gordon and the Field Guide to Dragons, Their Varieties and Habitats Richard J. Ross and Steven Wilf We are meeting to celebrate Bob Gordon, his storied career, and the issuing of a collection of his essays, entitled,…
Robert W. Gordon in Conversation with David Sugarman
Here is Bob in his own words, adding a more personal reflection and commentary to his more formal publications and presentations…. illuminating the ideas and biography of one of the most influential and much-loved legal historians of the last fifty years…. Hopefully, it conveys the spirit of our dialogue, and, among other things, what a good time we were having.
Conversation: Katherine Turk, Chelsea del Rio and Nicholas Syrett discuss Alison Lefkovitz’ Strange Bedfellows
One of the most highly anticipated new works in postwar American legal history is Alison Lefkovitz’ Strange Bedfellows: Marriage in the Era of Women’s Liberation. As the book’s publisher puts it, “Examining the effects of law and politics on the intimate space of the home, Strange Bedfellows recounts how the marriage revolution at once instituted formal legal…
Deja Vu and the Gendered Origins of the Practice of Immigration Law: The Immigrants’ Protective League, 1907-1940
Felice Batlan is Professor of Law, Director of the Institute for Compliance, and Co-Director of the Institute for Law and the Humanities at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. She was previously an Associate Editor of Law and History Review. She is the author of several major works, including Women and Justice for the Poor: A History…
A Happy Couple: The Docket and Law and History Review
What exactly is a ‘Bobfest’!? Here’s a quick preview of what’s to come at The Docket and Law and History Review! *** All academics know that the term ‘summer break’ is silly. If anything, we get busier in the summer as we use a brief reprieve from teaching and other campus-based responsibilities to dive into…