John H. Schlegel

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UB Distinguished Professor; Floyd H. & Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar

Research Focus: American Legal Realism, Legal History of the American Economy, Corporate Finance, Economic Redevelopment of Rust Belt Cities

Links: Curriculum Vitae

Contact Information

526 O'Brian Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
716-645-2746
schlegel@buffalo.edu

Faculty Assistant: Anita M. Gesel

Biography Publications

Books

WHILE WAITING FOR RAIN: COMMUNITY, ECONOMYAND LAW IN A TIME OF CHANGE (University of Michigan Press, 2022)

American Legal Realism and Empirical Social Science (1995)

Journal Articles

Humor, A Meditation, 26 GREEN BAG 2d 51 (2022)

Meeting Willard Hurst in the Seminar Room: On the Humility in Historical Judgment, THE DOCKET/ LAW AND HISTORY REVIEW (2022)

If the Music Hadn’t Stopped, or Reflections on the Great Kerfuffle: Historicism’s Continuing Grasp for Truth, 31 YALE JOURNAL OF LAW AND HUMANITIES 276 (2021)

Saying Thanks with Some Self-Reflection,69 BUFFALO LAW REVIEW 201, 201-214(2021)

If the Music Hadn’t Stopped, or Reflections on the Great Kerfuffle: Historicism’s Continuing Grasp for Truth, 31 YALE JOURNAL OF LAW AND HUMANITIES 276, 276-296 (2021)

To Dress for Dinner: Teaching Law in a Bureaucratic Age, 66 BUFFALO LAW REVIEW 435, 435-80 (2018).

On Absences as Material for Historical Study, BUFFALO LAW REVIEW vol. 64: 141-59 (2016)

A Response from the River Jordan, TIKKUN (Summer 2015)

Philosophical Inquiry and Social Practice, VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW vol. 101: 1197-1202 (2015)

“The Three Globalizations:” An Essay in Inquiry, LAW AND CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS vol. 78: 19-35 (2015)

Together Again, COMPARATIVE LAW REVIEW (2012) vol. 3 p. 1

American Legal Theory and American Legal Education: A Snake Swallowing Its Tail, GERMAN LAW JOURNAL (2011) vol. 12 p. 67

For Peter, with Love, PEPPERDINE LAW REVIEW (2009) vol. 36 p. 535

On the Many Flavors of Capitalism, or Reflections on Schumpeter's Ghost, BUFFALO LAW REVIEW (2009) vol. 56 p. 965

One Less Note to Answer [Comments], BUFFALO LAW REVIEW (2009) vol. 57 p. 1150

18 or 30, But Not 22, Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. (2008) vol. 43 p. 629-632

Drawing Back from the Abyss, on Lessons Learned from Count von Count, THE CRIT (2008) vol. 1 p. 16

A Damn Hard Thing to Do, VANDERBILT LAW REVIEW (2007) vol. 60 p. 371-384

CLS Wasn't Killed by a Question, ALABAMA LAW REVIEW (2007) vol. 58 p. 967

Unfortunately, White-Collar is the Default Setting: Boys and Higher Education, BUFFALO LAW REVIEW (2005) vol. 53 p. 1035

From High in the Paper Tower, An Essay on von Humboldt's University, BUFFALO LAW REVIEW (2004) vol. 52 p. 865

But Pierre, If We Can't Think Normatively, What Are We Going To Do?, UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI LAW REVIEW  (2003) vol. 57 p. 955

Of Duncan, Peter and Thomas Kuhn, CARDOZO LAW REVIEW (2001) vol. 22 p. 1061

Does Duncan Kennedy Wear Boxers or Briefs? Does Richard Posner Ever Sleep? Writing About Jurisprudence, High Culture and the History of Intellectuals, BUFFALO LAW REVIEW (1997) vol. 45 p. 277

Alan and I:  Of Critical Legal Studies, Community and All That (1996) vol. 44 p. 636

Between the Harvard Founders and the American Legal Realists: The Professionalization of the American Law Professor, JOURNAL OF LEGAL EDUCATION (1985) vol. 35 p. 311

Critical Legal Studies: Notes Toward an Intimate, Opinionated, and Affectionate History of the Conference on Critical Legal Studies, STANFORD LAW REVIEW (1984) vol. 36

Book Chapters

Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld: On the Difficultyof Becoming a Law Professor, in WESLEY HOHFELD ACENTURY LATER:EDITED WORK, SELECT PERSONAL PAPERS, AND ORIGINAL COMMENTARIES (ShyamBalganesh, Ted Sichelman & Henry Smith, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2022)

Sez Who?: Critical Legal History without a Privileged Position, in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF HISTORICAL LEGAL RESEARCH 561, 561-76 (Chris Tomlins & M. Dubber, eds., Oxford University Press 2018)

Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld: On the Di&culty of Becoming a Law Professor, in THE LEGACY OF WESLEY HOHFELD: EDITED MAJOR WORKS, SELECT PERSONAL PAPERS, AND ORIGINAL COMMENTARIES (Shyam Balganesh, Ted Sichelman & Henry Smith, eds., Cambridge University Press 2018)

. . . and Law?, in CONTEMPORARY LEGAL THOUGHT 348, 348-62 (Chris Tomlins & Justin Desautels-Stein, eds., Cambridge University Press 2017)

Legal Realism, INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES (James D. Wright, ed.) (Elsevier: 2015) p. 772

Critical Legal Studies, BLACKWELL COMPANION ON AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY (A. Trophy and S. Hadden, editors) (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) (524-542)

On a Possible Instance of the Transmigration of Souls: From American Regal Legalism to American Legal Realism and Back Again, GLOBALIZATION AND THE U.S. LAW SCHOOL: COMPARATIVE AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES 1906-2006 (S. Hicks & K. Modéer, editors) (Lund University Press, 2010) (77-92)

Academics, OXFORD INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LEGAL HISTORY (Oxford University Press:   2009) p. 11

Conflating the Good with the Public Good, PRIVATE LAWYERS AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST: THE EVOLVING ROLE OF PRO BONO IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION (Oxford University Press:   2009) p. 279-293

Law and Economic Change During the Short Twentieth Century, CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LAW IN AMERICA (Cambridge University Press:   2008) p. 563-612

Critical Legal Studies, THE OXFORD COMPANION TO AMERICAN LAW (K. Hall, ed.) (Oxford University Press:   2002) p. 202-204

Legal Realism, THE OXFORD COMPANION TO AMERICAN LAW (K. Hall, ed.) (Oxford University:   2002) p. 501-503

Legal Realism, INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES (N. Smelzer and P. Bates, ed.) (ScienceDirect:   2001) p. 8667-8670

Words from a Largely Forgotten Man, THE FUNDAMENTAL INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND PROPERTY (The Economics of Legal Relationships series) (N. Mercuro & W.J. Samuels, ed.) (JAI Press:   1999) p. 223

Reports, Papers & Other Scholarship

Preface (Prefácio em inglês), Ensino jurídico e teoria do direito nos EUA (Ferreira, Daniel Brantes) (Juruá Editora:   2012) p. 13-14

More Crab, Still No Barrel (2008)
Website     

Like Crabs in a Barrel: Economy, History and Redevelopment in Buffalo, Center Working Papers (University at Buffalo's Center for Studies in American Culture:   2005)

Book Reviews

LAW & HISTORY REVIEW 2021) (reviewing Susan Bartie, FREE HANDS, FREE MINDS: PIONEERING AUSTRALIAN LEGAL SCHOLARS (Hart Publishing 2019))

84 MODERN LAW REVIEW 946, 946-951(2021) (reviewing Bruce A. Kimball & Daniel Coquillette, INTELLECTUAL SWORD: HARVARD LAW SCHOOL: THE SECOND CENTURY (Belknap Press 2020))

Review of Newman, Roger, editor, THE YALE BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN LAW (Yale University Press, 2009),  JOURNAL OF LEGAL EDUCATION (2010) vol. 59 p. 305

Those Weren't "The Good Old Days," Just the Old Days (Reviewing L. Kalman, YALE LAW SCHOOL AND THE SIXTIES: REVOLT AND REVERBERATIONS (2005)), LAW & SOCIAL INQUIRY (2007) vol. 32 p. 841

Understanding Buffalo's Economic Development (reviewing Diana Dillaway, POWER FAILURE: POLITICS, PATRONAGE, AND THE ECONOMIC FUTURE OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK (2006)), BUFFALO LAW REVIEW (with Thomas E. Headrick) (2007) vol. 54 p. 1537

Talkin' Dirty (reviewing W. Twining, BLACKSTONE'S TOWER (1994) and L. Kalman, The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism (1996)), LAW & SOCIAL INQUIRY (1996) vol. 21 p. 981

A Tasty Tidbit (reviewing M. Horwitz, THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN LAW: 1870-1960 (1992)), BUFFALO LAW REVIEW (1993) vol. 41 p. 1045