Selected Articles and Essays Articles, Book Chapters and Review Essays “The Case of ‘Death for a Dollar-Ninety-Five’: Finding America in American Injustice,” in Charles Ogletree and Austin Sarat, eds., Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice (forthcoming, New York University Press). "Making Law, Making War, Making America," in Christopher Tomlins and Michael Grossberg, eds., The Cambridge History of Law in America (Cambridge University Press,forthcoming 2008). "Working Toward Democracy: Thurgood Marshall and the Constitution of Kenya," 56 Duke Law Journal 721 (December, 2006). "The 1963 March on Washington, At Home and Abroad," Revue Franaise d'tudes Amricaines (special issue on Foreign Policy and Civil Society)(March 2006). Discrimination and Diplomacy: Recovering the Fuller National Stake in 1960s Civil Rights Reform," in Rights and Realities: Legal and Social Scientific Approaches to Employment Discrimination (Laura Beth Nielsen and Robert Nelson, eds.) (Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2005). "Law and Social Context in Civil Rights History," Review essay, Michael J. Klarman, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality (Oxford University Press, 2004), 72 Chicago Law Review 429 (Winter 2005). "Brown as a Cold War Case," 91 Journal of American History 32 (June 2004). "Brown and the Idea of Progress in American Legal History: A Comment on William Nelson," 48 St. Louis University Law Journal 851 (symposium issue) (2004). "Who Cares about Courts? Creating a Constituency for Judicial Independence in Africa: A Review of Jennifer Widner, Building the Rule of Law: Francis Nyalali and the Road to Judicial Independence in Africa (2001)," 101 Michigan Law Review 1622 (2003) (review essay). "Birmingham, Addis Ababa and the Image of America: International Influence on U.S. Civil Rights Policy during the Kennedy Years," in Brenda Gayle Plummer, ed., Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988 (University of North Carolina Press, 2003). "The Politics of ‘The Least Dangerous Branch’: The Court, the Constitution and Constitutional Politics Since 1945," in Jean-Christophe Agnew and Roy Rosenzweig, eds., A Companion to Post-1945 America (Blackwell Press, 2002). "The Little Rock Crisis and Foreign Affairs: Race, Resistance and the Image of American Democracy," 70 Southern California Law Review 1641 (1997). "The Supreme Court and Racial Equality During World War II," 1996 Journal of Supreme Court History 35. "The Courts," in Stanley Kutler, et al., eds., An Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century (Charles Scribner’s Sons 1996). "Josephine Baker, Racial Protest and the Cold War," 81 Journal of American History 543 (1994), reprinted in Michael L. Krenn, ed., The African American Voice in U.S. Foreign Policy since World War II (Garland Press, 1998), and Adrien K. Wing, ed., Critical Race Feminism: Global Issues (New York University Press, 2000). "Just Say No: Birth Control in the Connecticut Supreme Court Before Griswold v. Connecticut," in P. Finkelman and S. Gottlieb, eds., Toward a Usable Past: Liberty Under State Constitutions (Georgia University Press 1991), reprinted 75 Iowa Law Review 915 (1990). For links to some articles and essays, go to: Social Science Research Network Page BE Press "Selected Works" Page
| Articles, Book Chapters and Review Essays (continued) "Desegregation as a Cold War Imperative," 41 Stanford Law Review 61 (1988), reprinted in Richard Delgado, ed., Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge (1995) and Michael L. Krenn, ed., Race and U.S. Foreign Policy during the Cold War (Garland Press, 1998). "The Limits of Good Faith: Desegregation in Topeka, Kansas, 1950-1956," 5 Law and History Review 351 (1987), reprinted in Rita G. Napier, ed., Kansas and the West: New Perspectives (University Press of Kansas, 2003). "Oliver Wendell Holmes as a Eugenic Reformer: Rhetoric in the Writing of Constitutional Law," 71 Iowa Law Review 833 (1986). Short Essays and Reviews “A Bill of Rights for Kenya: Marshall’s Role,” in Justice for All: The Legacy of Thurgood Marshall (U.S. State Department on-line publication). “Civil Rights, Cold War,” in William A. Darby, ed., International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2d ed. (Macmillan, 2008).
Review of Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education, The University of Michigan Digital Archive: Brown v. Board of Education, Brown @ 50: Fulfilling the Promise (websites on Brown v. Board of Education), Journal of American History (forthcoming December 2006). "Historicizing the War on Terror," Insights on Law and Society (March 2006). "On Using U.S. Diplomatic Records for Research on African Constitutions: A Guide to the Archives," Newsletter of the Africa Section of the Association of American Law Schools (2002), on-line at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=319700. "American Law as a Sojourner," review of Eileen P. Scully, Bargaining with the State from Afar: American Citizenship in Treaty Port China, 1844-1942 (Columbia University Press, 2001), on H-Law, http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=101791013016475. Other Works "Interchange: History in Professional Schools," Journal of American History (September 2005)(roundtable conversation on the nature of historical research and teaching in professional schools). Op-eds |