Issue: Volume 3, Issue 3

When I was in graduate school at the University of Maryland, I worked as an intern with the Federal Judicial History Office at the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C.  Then, after completing my Ph.D. in 2008, I held a one-year position as an assistant historian in that office.  The projects I worked on broadened…

Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow, ed., Suffrage at 100: Women in American Politics Since 1920 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020). Review by Cathleen D. Cahill, Penn State University. This exciting collection is well-timed and well-done. It is part of the rich body of scholarship inspired by the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment as scholars…

In 2019 William Twining and Harry Arthurs, academic lawyers whose careers peaked during the second half of the twentieth century, published memoirs revealing the central motivations and forces underlying their intellectual endeavour.[1]  Their books are a source of great nourishment, provoking readers to think deeply about the central challenges of the discipline and what might…

This issue of The Docket offers original research articles, interviews and commentaries. We want to thank Jack Del Nunzio, a remarkable MA student in Public History at American University, for his help in commissioning and editing the great majority of this issue. Thanks also goes to Professor Eric Lohr and Dean Max Paul Friedman of…

Every year, the American Society for Legal History awards the Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars Prize to one or more scholars “at the beginning of their careers” to acknowledge significant, original research “on any topic in legal, institutional and/or constitutional history.” The prize includes an honorarium to reimburse costs of attending the annual ASLH annual meeting….

Every year, the American Society for Legal History awards the Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars Prize to one or more scholars “at the beginning of their careers” to acknowledge significant, original research “on any topic in legal, institutional and/or constitutional history.” The prize includes an honorarium to reimburse costs of attending the annual ASLH annual meeting….

In August, 2020, The Docket had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Julia Rose Kraut about her new book, Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States, which was published by Harvard University Press (2020). The Docket [TD]: For those who are unfamiliar, could you please describe what you…

Roscoe Pound (1870-1964) was a professor and dean of Harvard Law School from 1916 to 1936.  Pound taught jurisprudence and met Hans Kelsen at a 1936 congress celebrating the 300th anniversary of Harvard University.  Kelsen, a Jewish jurist born in Austria (1881-1973), was considered by many to be the greatest theorist of law in the…