Joel Black
Undergraduate Lecturer
Research Focus: Legal History, Law and Inequality, Common Law, Legal Reasoning
Links: Curriculum Vitae
Contact Information
423 O'Brian Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
716-645-5675
joelblac@buffalo.edu
Books
STRUCTURING POVERTY IN THE WINDY CITY: AUTONOMY, VIRTUE, AND ISOLATION IN POST-FIRE CHICAGO (University Press of Kansas, 2019).
Journal Articles
Inspired Filth: Working Blue in Vaudeville America (with William Mercer), 53 THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS LAW REVIEW (2022)
Where Illness Takes Us: Vernaculars of Pain on New York’s Lower East Side with Erin Cunningham, JOURNAL OF URBAN HISTORY (2021).
Citizen Kane: The Everyday Ordeals and Self-Fashioned Citizenship of Wisconsin’s ‘Lady Lawyer,’ LAW AND HISTORY REVIEW, 33 (2015).
A Theory of African-American Citizenship: Richard Westbrooks, The Great Migration, and the Chicago Defender's Legal Helps, 46 JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY (2013).
Space and Status in Chicago's Legal Landscapes, 12 JOURNAL OF PLANNING HISTORY 12 (2013).
Ferlinghetti on Trial: The Howl Court Case and Juvenile Delinquency, 2 BOOM: A JOURNAL OF CALIFORNIA (2012).
A Crime to Live Without Work: Free Labor and Marginal Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1870-1920, 36 MICHIGAN HISTORICAL REVIEW (Fall 2010).