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Recent Publications
Federal Ground (Oxford UP, forthcoming 2021)
Greg Ablavsky’s Federal Ground (Oxford UP, forthcoming 2021) explores how, in the first two federal territories, a minuscule and distrusted national government nonetheless gained authority by arbitrating disputes over property and violence.
The Fight to Save the Town (Simon & Schuster, forthcoming 2021)
Michelle Wilde Anderson’s The Fight to Save the Town (Simon & Schuster, forthcoming 2021) 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 (MIT Press, forthcoming 2021)
Hank Greely’s CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans (MIT Press, forthcoming 2021) inquires what the birth of babies whose embryos have gone through genome editing means—for science and for us.
A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crimes and What It Means for Justice (Harvard UP, forthcoming 2021)
Last but not least, David Sklansky’s A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crimes and What It Means for Justice (Harvard UP, forthcoming 2021) 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.