UB Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Research Focus: American Legal and Constitutional History
THE PAPERS OF DANIEL WEBSTER: LEGAL PAPERS (with Andrew J. King, eds.) (1982) vol. 1
THE PAPERS OF DANIEL WEBSTER: LEGAL PAPERS (with Andrew J. King, eds.) (1982) vol. 2
John Henry Schlegel and The Muppet Show, BUFFALO LAW REVIEW vol. 69: 101 (2021)
In This, the Winter of Our Discontent: Legal Practice, Legal Education, and the Culture of Distrust (with Barry Sullivan) BUFFALO LAW REVIEW vol. 62 (2014)
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Justice Jackson's 1946 Nuremberg Reflections at Buffalo: An Introduction (with Tara J. Melish) BUFFALO LAW REVIEW vol. 60: 255 (2012)
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Piety and Profession: Simon Greenleaf and the Case of the Stillborn Bowdoin Law School, 1850–1861, NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY vol. 85(4): 695 (2012)
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Jack Hyman, Student, BUFFALO LAW REVIEW vol. 57: 1155 (2009)
James B. Atleson and the World of Labor Law Scholarship, BUFFALO LAW REVIEW vol. 57: 629 (2009)
The Accidental Legal Historian: Herman Melville and the History of American Law, BUFFALO LAW REVIEW vol. 52: 1179 (2004)
The Voice of Willard Hurst, LAW & HISTORY REVIEW vol. 18: 147 (2000)
Freedom and Interdependence in 20th Century Contract Law: Traynor and hand and Promissory Estoppel, UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI LAW REVIEW vol. 65: 1169 (1997)
The Daughters of Job: Property Rights and Women's Lives in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts (with Dianne Avery) LAW & HISTORY REVIEW vol. 10: 323 (1992)
Law Students with Disabilities: Removing Barriers in the Law School Community (with David Engel), BUFFALO LAW REVIEW vol. 38: 551 (1990)
The Marshall Court and the Writing of Law and History, VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW vol. 66: 160 (1990)
"As Best to Subserve Their Own Interests": Lemuel Shaw, Labor Conspiracy, and Fellow Servants, LAW & HISTORY REVIEW vol. 7: 219 (1989)
How to Read, or at Least Not Misread, Cardozo in the Allegheny College Case, BUFFALO LAW REVIEW vol. 36: 645 (1988)
Law and Culture in Antebellum Boston, STANFORD LAW REVIEW vol. 40: 1119 (1988)
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Histories of American Law Schools, HARVARD LAW REVIEW vol. 95: 833 (1982)
Men of Great and Little Faith: Generations of Constitutional Scholars, BUFFALO LAW REVIEW vol. 30: 365 (1981)
On the Early History of Lower Federal Courts, Judges and the Rule of Law, MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW vol. 79: 645 (1981)
Lawyers' Papers as a Source of Legal History: The 19th Century, LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL vol. 69: 307 (1976)
Karl’s Law School, or the Oven Bird in Buffalo, in INSIDERS, OUTSIDERS, INJURIES AND LAW IN THE 21ST CENTURY: REVISITING “THE OVEN BIRD’S SONG” (Mary Nell Trautner ed., Cambridge University Press 2018) (56-68)
Simon Greenleaf, Boston Elites, and the Social Meaning and Construction of the Charles River Bridge Case, TRANSFORMATIONS IN AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF MORTON J. HORWITZ, vol. 2 (Harvard University Press: 2010) (165-195)
Lemuel Shaw, THE YALE BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN LAW (Yale University Press: 2009)
The Legal Profession: From the Revolution to the Civil War, THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LAW IN AMERICA vol. 2 (Cambridge University Press: 2008) (68-105, 708-715)
The Dartmouth College Case, THE OXFORD COMPANION TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1992)
LAW AND HISTORY REVIEW vol. 17: 187-191 (1999) (reviewing William Novak, THE PEOPLE'S WELFARE: LAW AND REGULATION IN 19TH CENTURY AMERICA (1996))