Theory and Method in Legal History: A Symposium

Via Al Brophy at the Faculty Lounge, we've learned of the UC Irvine Law Review's recent symposium issue on Theory and Method in Legal History. The collection of legal historians represented here is truly extraordinary. Here are the articles, cribbed directly from Al's post:

Catherine L. Fisk and Robert W. Gordon, Foreword: “Law As . . .”: Theory and Method in Legal History

Steven Wilf, Law/Text/Past

Laura F. Edwards,The Peace: The Meaning and Production of Law in the Post-Revolutionary United States

Kunal M. Parker, Law “In” and “As” History: The Common Law in the American Polity 1790‒1900 

Roger Berkowitz, From Justice to Justification: An Alternative Genealogy of Positive Law

Marianne Constable, Law as Claim to Justice: Legal History and Legal Speech Acts

Christopher W. Schmidt, Conceptions of Law in the Civil Rights Movement

Norman W. Spaulding, The Historical Consciousness of the Resistant Subject

Barbara Young Welke, Owning Hazard, A Tragedy

Peter Goodrich, Specters of Law: Why the History of the Legal Spectacle Has Not Been Written

Shai J. Lavi, Enchanting a Disenchanted Law: On Jewish Ritual and Secular History in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Assaf Likhovski, Chasing Ghosts: On Writing Cultural Histories of Tax Law

John Fabian Witt, The Dismal History of the Laws of War

Paul Frymer, Building an American Empire: Territorial Expansion in the Antebellum Era 

Mariana Valverde, “The Honour of the Crown is at Stake”: Aboriginal Land Claims Litigation and the Epistemology of Sovereignty

Roy Kreitner, Money in the 1890s: The Circulation of Politics, Economics, and Law

Ritu Birla, Law as Economy: Convention, Corporation, Currency

Christopher Tomlins and John Comaroff, “Law As . . .”: Theory and Practice in Legal History

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