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JUDITH KELLEHER SCHAFER, SLAVERY, THE CIVIL LAW, AND THE SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA. BATON ROUGE AND LONDON: LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1994. XIX, 389 PP. $35.00. Thomas D. Russell; 40 Am. J. Legal Hist. 216 American Journal of Legal History April, 1996

NEW HISTORIES OF THE PRIVATE LAW OF SLAVERY Mark Tushnet; 18 Cardozo L. Rev. 301 Cardozo Law Review November, 1996

PROPERTY FIRST, HUMANITY SECOND: THE RECOGNITION OF THE SLAVE'S HUMAN NATURE IN VIRGINIA CIVIL LAW A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. Barbara K. Kopytoff; 50 Ohio St. L.J. 511 Ohio State Law Journal 1989

SLAVERY AND THE FELLOW SERVANT RULE: AN ANTEBELLUM DILEMMA Frederick Wertheim; 61 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1112 New York University Law Review December, 1986

THE SOUTH CONDEMNING ITSELF: HUMANITY AND PROPERTY IN AMERICAN SLAVERY A Review of Andrew Fede, People Without Rights (Garland Press 1992) Ruth Wedgwood; 68 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 1391 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1993


Commercial Law

"LIKE MASTER, LIKE MAN": CONSTRUCTING WHITENESS IN THE COMMERCIAL LAW OF SLAVERY, 1800-1861 Ariela J. Gross; 18 Cardozo L. Rev. 263 Cardozo Law Review November, 1996


Congress

COMPELLING STORY TIES INTO CURRENT FILM Arguing About Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress By William Lee Miller, Alfred A. Knopf (1996), 592 Pp., with Appendix, Bibliography, Sources, Notes and Index ($35) Jon M. Bauman; 41-FEB Advocate (Idaho) 23 Advocate February, 1998


Constitution

BONDAGE, FREEDOM & THE CONSTITUTION: THE NEW SLAVERY SCHOLARSHIP AND ITS IMPACT ON LAW AND LEGAL HISTORIOGRAPHY E. Nathaniel Gates; 17 Cardozo L. Rev. 1685 Cardozo Law Review May, 1996

DESPERATELY DUCKING SLAVERY: DRED SCOTT AND CONTEMPORARY CONSTITUTIONAL THEORY Mark A. Graber; 14 Const. Comment. 271 Constitutional Commentary Summer 1997

DRED SCOTT'S UNWON FREEDOM: THE REDISTRICTING CASES AS BADGES OF SLAVERY James U. Blacksher; 39 How. L.J. 633 Howard Law Journal Spring 1996

ETHICS UNDER SLAVERY'S CONSTITUTION: EDWARD LORING AND WILLIAM WETMORE STORY Ruth Wedgwood; 17 Cardozo L. Rev. 1865 Cardozo Law Review May, 1996

NO CALL TO GLORY: THURGOOD MARSHALL'S THESIS ON THE INTENT OF A PRO- SLAVERY CONSTITUTION Raymond T. Diamond; 42 Vand. L. Rev. 93 Vanderbilt Law Review January, 1989

SLAVERY IN THE CANON OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW Sanford Levinson; 68 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 1087 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1993

THE DRED SCOTT CASE, SLAVERY AND THE POLITICS OF LAW Paul Finkelman; 20 Hamline L. Rev. 1 Hamline Law Review Fall, 1996

THE RULE OF LAW V. THE MISRULE OF IDEOLOGY: THE CONFEDERACY AND CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION Free In the World: American Slavery and Constitutional Failure. By Mark E. Brandon. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 248. $39.50 Marshall L. DeRosa; 77 Tex. L. Rev. 789 Texas Law Review February, 1999

THE UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF SLAVERY Lysander Spooner; 28 Pac. L.J. 1015 Pacific Law Journal Summer, 1997

THE UNLIKELY HERO OF DRED SCOTT: BENJAMIN ROBBINS CURTIS AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW OF SLAVERY Earl M. Maltz; 17 Cardozo L. Rev. 1995 Cardozo Law Review May, 1996

WAS SLAVERY UNCONSTITUTIONAL BEFORE THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT?: LYSANDER SPOONER'S THEORY OF INTERPRETATION Randy E. Barnett; 28 Pac. L.J. 977 Pacific Law Journal Summer, 1997


Criminal Law

"DOUBLY CONDEMNED": ADJUSTMENTS TO THE CRIME AND PUNISHMENT REGIME IN THE LATE SLAVERY PERIOD IN THE BRITISH CARIBBEAN COLONIES Anthony De V. Phillips; 18 Cardozo L. Rev. 699 Cardozo Law Review November, 1996

A LEGACY OF SLAVERY AND LYNCHING: THE DEATH PENALTY AS A TOOL OF SOCIAL CONTROL William S. McFeely; 21-NOV Champion 30 Champion November, 1997

BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG: WHY THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT AND THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY PROSCRIBE THE RESURGENCE OF CHAIN GANGS Tessa M. Gorman; 85 Calif. L. Rev. 441 California Law Review March, 1997

CONDEMNED BY SUBSTANCE AND PROCESS: A COMMENT ON "DOUBLY CONDEMNED": ADJUSTMENTS TO THE CRIME AND PUNISHMENT REGIME IN THE LATE SLAVERY PERIOD IN THE BRITISH CARIBBEAN COLONIES AND "UNDER THE PRESENT MODE OF TRIAL, IMPROPER VERDICTS ARE VERY OFTEN GIVEN": CRIMINAL PROCEDURE IN THE TRIALS OF ... Raymond T. Diamond; 18 Cardozo L. Rev. 753 Cardozo Law Review November, 1996

OUTLAWING OUTCASTS: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON THE DIFFERING FUNCTIONS OF THE CRIMINAL LAW OF SLAVERY IN THE AMERICAS Robert J. Cottrol ; 18 Cardozo L. Rev. 717 Cardozo Law Review November, 1996


Emancipation

COMMENT ON GUYORA BINDER, "THE SLAVERY OF EMANCIPATION" Michael Les Benedict; 17 Cardozo L. Rev. 2103 Cardozo Law Review May, 1996

ROMAN ROOTS OF THE LOUISIANA LAW OF SLAVERY: EMANCIPATION IN AMERICAN LOUISIANA, 1803-1857 Judith Kelleher Schafer; 56 La. L. Rev. 409 Louisiana Law Review Winter, 1995

THE SLAVERY OF EMANCIPATION Guyora Binder; 17 Cardozo L. Rev. 2063 Cardozo Law Review May, 1996


Gender

GENDER IN THE LAW OF SLAVERY IN THE ANTEBELLUM UNITED STATES Andrew T. Fede ; 18 Cardozo L. Rev. 411 Cardozo Law Review November, 1996


Health Care

SLAVERY, SEGREGATION AND RACISM: TRUSTING THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM AIN'T ALWAYS EASY! AN AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE ON BIOETHICS Vernellia R. Randall; 15 St. Louis U. Pub. L. Rev. 191 Saint Louis University Public Law Review 1996


Law of Slavery (Other)

IDEOLOGY AND IMAGERY IN THE LAW OF SLAVERY William W. Fisher, III; 68 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 1051 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1993

INCONSISTENCY, CONTRADICTION, AND COMPLETE CONFUSION: THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE LAW OF SLAVERY Walter Johnson; 22 Law & Soc. Inquiry 405 Law and Social Inquiry Spring, 1997

JUSTICE STORY, SLAVERY, AND THE NATURAL LAW FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONALISM Christopher L.M. Eisgruber; 55 U. Chi. L. Rev. 273 University of Chicago Law Review Winter, 1988

LORDS OF LASH, LOOM, AND LAW: JUSTICE STORY, SLAVERY, AND PRIGG V. PENNSYLVANIA Barbara Holden-Smith; 78 Cornell L. Rev. 1086 Cornell Law Review September, 1993

METHODOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS AND THE SLAVERY CASES; OR, NIGHT-THOUGHTS OF A LEGAL REALIST Louise Weinberg; 56 Md. L. Rev. 1316 Maryland Law Review 1997

NEW JERSEY SLAVERY AND THE LAW Gary K. Wolinetz; 50 Rutgers L. Rev. 2227 Rutgers Law Review Summer, 1998

SLAVE LAW: HISTORY & IDEOLOGY The American Law of Slavery, 1810-1860: Considerations of Humanity and Interest. By Mark Tushnet. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981. Pp. 262. $20.00 (paper, $9.50). Alan Watson; 91 Yale L.J. 1034 Yale Law Journal April, 1982

SLAVERY AND THE ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT L. Scott Stafford; 19 U. Ark. Little Rock L.J. 413 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Journal May, 1997

THE AMERICAN LAW OF SLAVERY, 1810-1860: CONSIDERATIONS OF HUMANITY AND INTEREST. MARK V. TUSHNET. PRINCETON: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS. 1981. PP. 262. $20.00 (CLOTH), $9.50 (PAPER). Russell K. Osgood; 67 Cornell L. Rev. 428 Cornell Law Review January, 1982

THE BIFURCATED ROMANIST TRADITION OF SLAVERY IN LOUISIANA Hans W. Baade; 70 Tul. L. Rev. 1481 Tulane Law Review May, 1996

THE INDIANA SUPREME COURT AND THE STRUGGLE AGAINST SLAVERY Sandra Boyd Williams; 30 Ind. L. Rev. 305 Indiana Law Review 1997

THOMAS D. MORRIS, SOUTHERN SLAVERY AND THE LAW, 1619-1860. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996. x, 575 pp. $49.95. Andrew T. Fede; 41 Am. J. Legal Hist. 406 American Journal of Legal History July, 1997


Origins and Precepts of Slavery

THE TEN PRECEPTS OF AMERICAN SLAVERY JURISPRUDENCE: CHIEF JUSTICE ROGER TANEY'S DEFENSE AND JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL'S CONDEMNATION OF THE PRECEPT OF BLACK INFERIORITY A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.; 17 Cardozo L. Rev. 1695 Cardozo Law Review May, 1996

THE ORIGINS OF THE LAW OF SLAVERY IN BRITISH NORTH AMERICA William M. Wiecek; 17 Cardozo L. Rev. 1711 Cardozo Law Review May, 1996

Reparations

BLACK AFRICAN REPARATIONS: MAKING A CLAIM FOR ENSLAVEMENT AND SYSTEMATIC DE JURE SEGREGATION AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION UNDER AMERICAN AND INTERNATIONAL LAW; 25 S.U. L. Rev. 1 Southern University Law Review Fall, 1997

CHANGES, ANTICIPATIONS, AND REPARATIONS Saul Levmore; 99 Colum. L. Rev. 1657 Columbia Law Review November, 1999

IF THE SHOE FITS, WEAR IT: AN ANALYSIS OF REPARATIONS TO AFRICAN AMERICANS Vincene Verdun; 67 Tul. L. Rev. 597 Tulane Law Review February, 1993

LOOKING TO THE BOTTOM: CRITICAL LEGAL STUDIES AND REPARATIONS Mari J. Matsuda; 22 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 323 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review Spring, 1987

MANY BILLIONS GONE: IS IT TIME TO RECONSIDER THE CASE FOR BLACK REPARATIONS? Robert Westley; 40 B.C. L. Rev. 429 Boston College Law Review December, 1998

RACIAL REPARATIONS: JAPANESE AMERICAN REDRESS AND AFRICAN AMERICAN CLAIMS Eric K. Yamamoto; 19 B.C. Third World L.J. 477 Boston College Third World Law Journal Fall, 1998

RACIAL REPARATIONS: JAPANESE AMERICAN REDRESS AND AFRICAN AMERICAN CLAIMS Eric K. Yamamoto; 40 B.C. L. Rev. 477 Boston College Law Review December, 1998

REFUGEES, RACISM, AND REPARATIONS: A CRITIQUE OF THE UNITED STATES' HAITIAN IMMIGRATION POLICY Malissia Lennox; 45 Stan. L. Rev. 687 Stanford Law Review February, 1993

REPARATIONS FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS Irma Jacqueline Ozer; 41 How. L.J. 479 Howard Law Journal Spring, 1998

REPARATIONS FOR FORMER COMFORT WOMEN OF WORLD WAR II Tong Yu; 36 Harv. Int'l L.J. 528 Harvard International Law Journal Spring, 1995

REPARATIONS IN THE INTER-AMERICAN SYSTEM FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS Victor M. Rodriguez Rescia; 5 ILSA J. Int'l & Comp. L. 583 ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law Summer, 1999

SWEEP AROUND YOUR OWN FRONT DOOR: EXAMINING THE ARGUMENT FOR LEGISLATIVE AFRICAN AMERICAN REPARATIONS Tuneen E. Chisolm ; 147 U. Pa. L. Rev. 677 University of

THE MASTER'S TOOLS, FROM THE BOTTOM UP: [FNa1] RESPONSES TO AFRICAN- AMERICAN REPARATIONS THEORY IN MAINSTREAM AND OUTSIDER REMEDIES DISCOURSE Rhonda V. Magee; 79 Va. L. Rev. 863 Virginia Law Review May, 1993

THE CONTINUING QUEST OF AFRICAN AMERICANS TO OBTAIN REPARATION FOR SLAVERY Calvin J. Allen, Esq.; 9-JUN NBA Nat'l B.A. Mag. 33 NBA National Bar Association Magazine May/June, 1995


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