Faculty & Staff
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Elizabeth
Dale Affiliate Professor of Law Associate Professor, U.S. Legal History Box 117320 / Gainesville, Florida 32611 e-mail: edale@history.ufl.edu 352.392.0271 ext 2265 |
Publications
Note: Complete detailed list in
vita.Current Books
- THE RULE OF JUSTICE: THE PEOPLE OF CHICAGO VERSUS ZEPHYR DAVIS. History of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Series (Ohio State University Press, 2001)
- DEBATING – AND CREATING – AUTHORITY: THE FAILURE OF A CONSTITUTIONAL IDEAL, MASSACHUSSETTS BAY, 1629-1649. Law, Justice and Power Series (Ashgate Publishing, Ltd (England), 2001)
Representative Law Reviews/Articles
- Death or Transformation? Educational Autonomy in the Roberts Court in the 2006-2007 Supreme Court Review, guest editor Erwin Chermerinsky, 43 TULSA LAW REVIEW (forthcoming Fall 2008)
- People v. Coughlin and the Criminal Jury in Late Nineteenth-Century Chicago, 28 NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW (forthcoming, Summer 2008)
- Employee Speech & Management Rights: A Counterintuitive Reading of Garcetti v. Ceballos, 29 BERKELEY JOURNAL OF EMPLOYMENT & LABOR LAW (forthcoming, June 2008)
- It Makes Nothing Happen: Reasons for Studying the History of Law, 3 JOURNAL OF LAW, CULTURE, AND HUMANITIES (forthcoming, 2008)
- Criminal Justice in the United States, 1780-1920: A Government of Laws or Men? CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LAW IN AMERICA, volume 2: 133 (Christopher Tomlins and Michael Grossberg, eds.) (2008)
- Getting Away with Murder, 111 AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 95 (2006)
- A Government of Men, Not Laws: Criminal Law in America, 1790-1920. Forthcoming, Cambridge History of American Law, Christopher Tomlins and Michael Grossman, editors.
- A Different Sort of Justice: The Informal Courts of Public Opinion in Antebellum South Carolina. 54 South Carolina Law Review 627 (2003).
- Not Simply Black and White: Jury Power and Law in Late Nineteenth-Century Chicago. 25 Social Science History 7 (Spring 2001)
- The People versus Zephyr Davis: Law and Popular Justice in late Nineteenth-Century Chicago. 17 Law and History Review 27 (January 1999)
