Articles from American Journal of Legal History

As part of the re-launch of the American Journal of Legal History, Oxford University Press is posting a dozen articles from the journal that illustrate the breadth and quality of work it has published.  My co-editor Stefan Vogenauer and I selected these articles -- hence they're called the "editors' choice collection."  They are (in alphabetical order of the authors):

James W. Ely, Jr., That Due Satisfaction May Be Made: The Fifth Amendment and the Origins of the Compensation Principle, 36 Am. J. Legal Hist. 1-18 (1992);

James W. Fox, Jr., The Law of Many Faces: Antebellum Contract Law Background of Reconstruction-Era Freedom of Contract, 49 Am. J.L. Hist. 61 (2006);

Karen Newman Gross, Marie Stefanin, Denise Campbell, Ladies in Red: Learning from America's First Female Bankrupts, 40 Am. J. Legal Hist. 1-40 (1996);

Michael Hoeflich, John Austin and Joseph Story: Two Nineteenth Century Perspectives on the Utility of the Civil Law for the Common Lawyer, 29 Am. J. Legal Hist. 36 (1985);

Michael Hoeflich, Law & Geometry: Legal Science from Leibniz to Langdell, 30 Am. J.L. Hist. 95 (1986);

 Morton J. Horwitz, The Conservative Tradition in the Writing of American Legal History, 17 Am. J. Legal Hist. (1973);

 Morton J. Horwitz, The Rise of Legal Formalism, 19 Am. J. Legal Hist. 251-264 (1975);

 Paul Kens, The Source of a Myth: Powers of the States and Laissez Faire Constitutionalism, 1900-1937, 35 Am. J. Legal Hist. 70-98 (1995);

Jayanth K. Krishnan, Professor Kingsfield Goes to Delhi: American Academics, the Ford Foundation, and the Development of Legal Education in India, 46 Am. J. Legal Hist. 447 (2004);

John H. Langbein, The Origins of Public Prosecution at Common Law, 17 Am. J.  Legal Hist. 313-335 (1973);

Adriaan Lanni, Precedent and Legal Reasoning in Classical Athenian Courts: A Noble Lie?, 43 Am. J.L. Hist. 27 (1999);

Stephen A. Siegel, The Origin of the Compelling State Interest Test and Strict Scrutiny, 48 Am. J. Legal Hist. 355-407 (2006).

I'm excited that all of these outstanding pieces are available to illustrate the journal's distinguished history.  I am even more excited about what's coming soon.  Our inaugural issue will be out around the end of April.  It has twenty essays by distinguished legal historians talking about what they see as the future of the field.

Comments

[Eric Muller]

Congratulations!!!

[Captain Hruska Carswell, Continuance King]

This is not your father's John Grisham.

[Bob]

The article listed as: Michael Hoeflich, John Austin and Joseph Story: Two Nineteenth Century Perspectives on the Utility of the Civil Law for the Common Lawyer, 29 Am. J. Legal Hist. 36 (1985);
... actually brings up an article by Langbein.

Someone should fix that error.

[Al Brophy]

Thanks for pointing that out, Bob. The link is fixed now.