After a grueling 9 months on the academic job market, I’m thrilled to announce that on July 1, I will start as an Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School! I’m so excited to bring Native American law and legal history to HLS, and I cannot wait to join the incredible faculty there!
By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond.
Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.
Hard to believe it but MY BOOK EXISTS!?!
@jamellebouie.net sums up the perils of a “colorblind constitution” so perfectly:
“Liberty for those who profit from the cruel legacies of our past, endless struggle for those crushed under their weight.”
This is one of those articles that makes me feel like my scholarship is really "seen" and doing an important thing. 🥹🩷
The University of Chicago Law Review | The Return to Autochthonous Law
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It is publication day for my book, White Power: Policing American Slavery. Here’s the unboxing, with a trip down memory lane. Thanks so much to those who helped make this a reality, esp. my amazing agent Dani Segelbaum, @dgershenowitz.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social @sonyabonczek.bsky.social
Wow! The @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social, continuous since 2006, has its 15,000th post! I wrote post #1 from the kitchen table of my then boyfriend's (now husband's) home in Sharon, MA. The blog is now beautifully curated by @kmtani.bsky.social & @dbqur.bsky.social. Thank you readers! ⚖️ 🗃
You guys. The Legal History Blog @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social has hit 15,000(!) posts! 👏 It's been an honor to help run the blog & to work beside true LHB stalwart Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social. All hail LHB founder & visionary @marydudziak.bsky.social 🙌 #LegalHistory
I have just posted the newest quarterly bibliography of new and forthcoming material in Native American and Indigenous studies. I hope you find it of some value, and if there is something you think I should add to the list, please let me now. Happy Reading!
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I understand the efficiency reasons for having librarians or RAs pull books, but browsing in the library stacks (or in a bookstore) is just one of my favorite all-time activities 📚
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School’s out, and it is time to try to catch up with all the work that has come out over the course of the past few months. This quarterly bibliography includes recent and forthcoming work th…
“It may be that the first step in truly reining in the court is to remember that the republic — and the Constitution that brought it to life — is meant for us. It is ours to interpret and ours to transform.”
You guys. The Legal History Blog @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social has hit 15,000(!) posts! 👏 It's been an honor to help run the blog & to work beside true LHB stalwart Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social. All hail LHB founder & visionary @marydudziak.bsky.social 🙌 #LegalHistory
I pulled a physical book, myself, from the library today. I haven’t done that in a bit because I tend to buy the books I read. Sometimes RAs will pull them for me or they’re online. But there’s an art in finding the book you were after and browsing the nearby titles—spending time lost in the stacks.
