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Current & Recent Research at Penn Law

The Penn Law faculty are engaged in a wide array of scholarship in traditional, cross-disciplinary and cutting-edge areas of inquiry. This newly created section of our website, which we will continue to populate in the months ahead, gives you access and the ability to search current and earlier work.

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Blasphemy and Religious Liberty in Antebellum America, AM. Q. 52 (Dec. 2000).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Sarah Barringer Gordon
Subjects: Law and History
Keywords: Free Speech, Law and Literature, Law and Society, Legal History, Religion

CONVICTIONS: MORMON POLYGAMY AND CRIMINAL LAW ENFORCEMENT IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY UTAH, Kathryn Daynes, co-author (forthcoming Univ. Illinois Press)
Date Posted: January 21, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Sarah Barringer Gordon
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice, Law and History
Keywords: Criminal Sentencing, Religion, Sexuality and the Law

Faith as Liberation: The Nation of Islam and Religion in Prison, 1940-1975, LAW & HIST. REV. (forthcoming, 2009).
Date Posted: March 23, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Sarah Barringer Gordon
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice, Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Law Enforcement and Corrections, Religion

Friendship and Scholarship: A Report from the Archives (Utah State Univ. Press 2007).
Date Posted: April 06, 2007
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Sarah Barringer Gordon

Law and Everyday Death: Infanticide and the Hester Vaughn Case, in LIVES IN THE LAW (Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas & Martha Merrill Umphrey eds., Univ. of Michigan Press 2006).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Sarah Barringer Gordon
Subjects: Law and History
Keywords: Gender Studies, Law and Society, Legal History, Women

Law and the Contact of Cultures, in BLACKWELL COMPANION TO THE AMERICAN WEST, William Deverell, ed. (Blackwell Publishers 2004).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Sarah Barringer Gordon
Subjects: Law and History
Keywords: Comparative Law, Law and Society, Legal History

Mormon Polygamy and American History (Conference on Law, Culture and the Humanities, Apr. 2002; Historical Society of Pennsylvania, June 2002).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Sarah Barringer Gordon
Keywords: Family Law, Law and Literature, Law and Society, Legal History, Religion

Religion and Law, 1790-1920, in CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF AMERICAN LAW (Michael Grossberg & Christopher L. Tomlins, eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008).
Date Posted: February 07, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Sarah Barringer Gordon
Subjects: Law and History
Keywords: Law and Society, Legal History, Religion

Religion and Law, 1790-1920, in CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF AMERICAN LAW, eds. Michael Grossberg & Christopher L. Tomlins (Cambridge University Press 2008).
Date Posted: March 23, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Sarah Barringer Gordon
Subjects: Law and History
Keywords: Legal History, Religion

THE MORMON QUESTION: POLYGAMY AND CONSTITUTIONAL CONFLICT IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA (Univ. of North Carolina Press 2002).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Sarah Barringer Gordon
Subjects: Law and History
Keywords: Constitutional Law, Family Law, Law and Literature, Law and Society, Legal History, Religion

THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW: RELIGIOUS VOICES AND THE CONSTITUTION IN MODERN AMERICA (forthcoming, Harvard Univ. Press, 2010).
Date Posted: April 14, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Sarah Barringer Gordon
Subjects: Law and History, Legal Process and Dispute Resolution
Keywords: Constitutional Law, Law and Society, Legal History, Litigation, Religion

The Liberty of Self-Degradation: Antipolygamy, Woman Suffrage and the Law of Marriage and Divorce, J. AM. HIST. 83 (December 1996), reprinted in LAW IN THE WEST (Gordon Bakken & Brenda Farrington eds., Garland Publishing, 2001).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Sarah Barringer Gordon
Subjects: Law and History
Keywords: Family Law, Gender Studies, Law and Society, Legal History, Religion, Women

The Mormon Question and Race in Nineteenth Century America (presented at Mormon History Association, Tucson, May 2002).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Sarah Barringer Gordon
Subjects: Law and History
Keywords: Law and Literature, Law and Society, Legal History, Race Relations, Religion

The New Age and the New Law: Malnak v Yogi and the Definition of Religion in Constitutional Law (forthcoming in Leslie Griffin, ed., RELIGION AND LAW STORIES, Aspen Press 2009)
Date Posted: March 23, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Sarah Barringer Gordon
Subjects: Courts and the Administration of Justice, Law and History
Keywords: Constitutional Law, Courts

The New Age and the New Law: Malnak v. Yogi and the Definition of Religion in Constitutional Law, (forthcoming in Leslie Griffin, ed., RELIGION AND LAW STORIES, Foundation Press 2009)
Date Posted: January 21, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Sarah Barringer Gordon
Subjects: Public Law and the Constitution
Keywords: Constitutional Law, Religion

Where the Action Is: Religion and Law, 18 Religion and American Culture 249 (2008).
Date Posted: January 21, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Sarah Barringer Gordon
Keywords: Religion

“Free” Religion and “Captive” Schools: Catholics, Protestants, and School Funding at Mid-Century, 56 DEPAUL L. REV. 1177 (2007).
Date Posted: April 06, 2007
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Sarah Barringer Gordon
Subjects: Law and History, Public Law and the Constitution
Keywords: Legal History, Religion