Conference Papers

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The Birth of Legal Aid: Knightly Attorneys and Damsels in Distress
Felice Batlan, Assistant Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Institute for Law and the Humanities, Chicago-Kent College of Law

After the Raid: Reshaping Religion in the Era of Carceral Control
Joshua Dubler, Columbia University

Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party - Chapter 1
Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party - Chapter 3
Paul Frymer, Associate Professor of Politics, UC Santa Cruz

Whose Rights?: Litigating the Right to Work, 1950-1980
Sophia Lee, Ph.D Cand., Yale Univ. Dept. of History

Lawyers, Guns & Public Monies: The U.S. Treasury, World War One, and the Administration of the Modern Fiscal State
Ajay K. Mehrotra, Associate Professor, School of Law and Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of History, Indiana University, Bloomington

Moving MOVE: Race, Police, and Liberal Politics in 1970s Philadelphia
Peter Pihos, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania

Gender and America's Right Turn
Marjorie J. Spruill, Professor of History, University of South Carolina

Transformative Bureaucracy: Reagan's Lawyers and the Dynamics of Political Investment
Steven M. Teles, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University