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Recent Publications
The Fight to Save the Town: Reimagining Discarded America
Michelle Wilde Anderson’s The Fight to Save the Town (Simon & Schuster) delves into the fight to save basic public services in high-poverty, post-industrial areas through a series of case studies.
Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
Rich Ford’s Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History furnishes a history of the laws of fashion from the middle ages to the present day, a walk down history’s red carpet to uncover and examine the canons, mores, and customs of clothing—rules that we often take for granted.
CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans
Hank Greely’s CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans (MIT Press) inquires what the birth of babies whose embryos have gone through genome editing means—for science and for us.
Federal Ground: Governing Property and Violence in the First U.S. Territories
Greg Ablavsky’s Federal Ground (Oxford UP) explores how, in the first two federal territories, a minuscule and distrusted national government nonetheless gained authority by arbitrating disputes over property and violence.
A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crimes and What It Means for Justice
Last but not least, David Sklansky’s A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crimes and What It Means for Justice (Harvard UP) traces central failures of criminal justice, including mass incarceration and high rates of police violence, to legal ideas about violence—its definition, its causes, and its moral significance.