The DC@UB Law Faculty Book Review collection includes book reviews published by all current and emeritus University at Buffalo School of Law faculty members in law reviews, interdisciplinary journals, and online publications. The full text or a link to freely-available full text is included wherever possible.
Submissions from 2024
The Attorney-Client Privilege Goes to Washington, Christine P. Bartholomew
Submissions from 2023
Speaking for the Dying: Life-and-Death Decisions in Intensive Care by Susan Shapiro, David M. Engel
The Burdens of Love and Time, Paul Linden-Retek
Submissions from 2022
A Post Minimum Contacts World, Christine P. Bartholomew
Refashioning Old Tools for Modern Society, Christine P. Bartholomew
Can Liberal Constitutionalism Survive the Rise of the Megacity?, James A. Gardner
Europe and the Federal Conceit, Paul Linden-Retek
Submissions from 2021
The Reality of Class-Action Appeals, Christine P. Bartholomew
Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature and Literary Obscenities: U.S. Case Law and Naturalism after Modernism, Guyora Binder
Review of Philosophical Foundations of Labour Law, edited by Hugh Collins, Gillian Lester, and Virginia Mantouvalou, Matthew Dimick
Seth Donnelly's The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation, Matthew Dimick
Bruce A. Kimball and Daniel R. Coquillete's The Intellectual Sword – Harvard Law School, the Second Century, John Henry Schlegel
Susan Bartie, Free Hands and Minds: Pioneering Australian Legal Scholars, John Henry Schlegel
Edward A. Purcell, Antonin Scalia and American Constitutionalism: The Historical Significance of a Judicial Icon, Matthew J. Steilen
Submissions from 2020
Lawrence Friedman's Crime Without Punishment: Aspects of the History of Homicide, Guyora Binder
Social Planning in a Physical World, Joel E. Black and Ruth L. Steiner
Submissions from 2019
William Beinart, Peter Delius and Michelle Hay, Rights to Land: a guide to tenure upgrading and restitution in South Africa (book review), Mekkonen Firew Ayano
New Frontiers in Empirical Labour Law Research, Edited by Amy Ludlow and Alysia Blackham, Matthew Dimick
The Anthropology of Religion and Law, Rebecca Redwood French
Submissions from 2018
What Don’t You Know and How Will You Learn It?, Elizabeth G. Adelman
The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America. By Sarah Igo, Samantha Barbas
Planning for the Social City?, Joel E. Black
Francesco Palermo & Karl Kössler's Comparative Federalism: Constitutional Arrangements and Case Law (book review), James A. Gardner
A History of Law and Lawyers in the GATT/WTO. Edited by Gabrielle Marceau., Meredith Kolsky Lewis
City of Debtors: A Century of Fringe Finance, John Henry Schlegel
Submissions from 2017
Toward a Universal Understanding of the Value of Legal Research Education, Elizabeth G. Adelman
Susanna Blumenthal's Law and the Modern Mind, Guyora Binder
United States Migrant Interdiction and the Detention of Refugees in Guantánamo Bay, John Harland Giammatteo
The Paradigm Sways: Macroeconomics Turns to History (reviewing three titles), David A. Westbrook
Submissions from 2016
After Legal Equality: Family, Sex, Kinship, edited by Robert Leckey, Michael Boucai
Pet Subjects (reviewing Jessica Pierce, Run, Spot, Run (2016)), Irus Braverman
Wild Life: An Ethnography [Author's Response to Reviews], Irus Braverman
Zootopia (reviewing David Grazian, American Zoo (2015)), Irus Braverman
Kathleen Thelen's Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity, Matthew Dimick
Herbert Hovenkamp. The Opening of American Law: Neoclassical Legal Thought, 1870–1970., John Henry Schlegel
On the Battlefield of Merit: Harvard Law School, the First Century, by Daniel R. Coquillette and Bruce A. Kimball, John Henry Schlegel
Submissions from 2015
The Open Access Advantage in Legal Education’s Age of Assessment, Elizabeth G. Adelman
Submissions from 2014
Child Labor in America: A History by Chaim M. Rosenberg, Joel E. Black
Vicki Eaklor's Queer America: A People's History of the United States (book review), Michael Boucai
Review of Constitutional Dynamics in Federal Systems: Sub-National Perspectives, edited by Michael Burgess and G. Alan Tarr, James A. Gardner
Review of Federal Dynamics: Continuity, Change, and the Varieties of Federalism, Arthur Benz and Jorg Broscheck, eds. (2013), James A. Gardner
Conveying Titles Clearly: Thoughts on the Fifth Edition of the ALWD GUIDE TO LEGAL CITATION (book review), Stephen Paskey
Submissions from 2013
Jeremy Horder's Homicide and The Politics of Law Reform, Guyora Binder
Conversations Across Our America: Talking About Immigration and the Latinoization of the United States, John Harland Giammatteo
Cross-Border Torts, Canadian-U.S. Litigation Strategies, by Wyatt Pickett, Tanya J. Monestier
Submissions from 2012
Looking South: Race, Gender, and the Transformation of Labor from Reconstruction to Globalization by Mary E. Frederickson, Joel E. Black
Michael S. Greve's The Upside-Down Constitution (book review), James A. Gardner
Border Watch: Cultures of Immigration, Detention, and Control, John Harland Giammatteo
Thomas Cottier and Panagiotis Delimatsis's The Prospects of International Trade Regulation: From Fragmentation to Coherence, Meredith Kolsky Lewis
Theorizing American Freedom (reviewing Aziz Rana, The Two Faces of American Freedom (2010)), Anthony O'Rourke
Submissions from 2011
David Streckfuss's Truth on Trial in Thailand: Defamation, Treason, and Lèse-Majesté, David M. Engel
Reason, the Common Law, and the Living Constitution (review of The Living Constitution by David Strauss), Matthew J. Steilen
Submissions from 2010
Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War One by Adriane Lentz-Smith, Joel E. Black
Book Review, Margot Canaday, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America, Michael Boucai
Fred Fejes' Gay Rights and Moral Panic: The Origins of America's Debate on Homosexuality (book review), Michael Boucai
Jeremy I. Levitt's Africa: Mapping New Boundaries in International Law, Makau wa Mutua
Philip Hamburger's Law and Judicial Duty: The Origins of Judicial Review, Robert J. Steinfeld
Paul Rabinow and George E. Marcus's Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary, David A. Westbrook, James D. Faubion, and Tobias Rees
Submissions from 2009
Jenna Bednar's The Robust Federation: Principles of Design (book review), James A. Gardner
Rosalee A. Clawson and Eric N. Waltenburg's Legacy and Legitimacy: Black Americans and the Supreme Court (2009), Athena D. Mutua
An Apology for a Pathological Brute (reviewing Tim Jeal, Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer (2007)), Makau wa Mutua
Mary L. Dudziak's Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall’s African Journey, Makau wa Mutua
Roger K. Newman's The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law (book review), John Henry Schlegel
Jamie L. Bronstein's Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Robert J. Steinfeld
Submissions from 2008
Lawrence M. Friedman's Guarding Life's Dark Secrets : Legal and Social Controls Over Reputation, Propriety, and Privacy (book review), James A. Gardner
James Dawes's That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity (book review), Makau wa Mutua
Austin Sarat and Christian Boulanger's The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment: Comparative Perspectives, Mateo Taussig-Rubbo
Submissions from 2007
Stephen M. Best's The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession (book review), Guyora Binder
Oscar G. Chase's Law, Culture, and Ritual: Disputing Systems in Cross-Cultural Context, David M. Engel
Christopher F. Zurn's Deliberative Democracy and the Institutions of Judicial Review (book review), James A. Gardner
Understanding Buffalo's Economic Development (review essay), Thomas E. Headrick and John Henry Schlegel
Rafiqul Islam's International Trade Law of the WTO (book review), Meredith Kolsky Lewis
Thinking With Wolves: Left legal Theory After the Right's Rise (review essay), Martha T. McCluskey
Tim Jeal's Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer, Makau Mutua
Douglas Hay and Paul Craven's Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and The Empire, 1562–1955, Robert J. Steinfeld
Mark Curthoys' Governments, Labour, and the Law in Mid-Victorian Britain: The Trade Union Legislation of the 1870s, Robert J. Steinfeld
Submissions from 2006
Maria Isabel Casablanca & Gloria Roa Bodin's Immigration Law for Paralegals, Elizabeth G. Adelman
Robert Asher, Lawrence B. Goodheart & Alan Rogers, Murder on Trial, 1620-2002, Guyora Binder
A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Cold War America by Lizabeth Cohen, Joel E. Black
A Review of Price, Principle, and the Environment, by Mark Sagoff, Matthew J. Steilen
Daniel J. Hulsebosch's Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664–1830, Robert J. Steinfeld
Submissions from 2005
Allyson N. May's The Bar and the Old Bailey, 1750-1850, Guyora Binder
Submissions from 2003
Terrorism and Business: The Impact of September 11, 2001 (reviewing Dean C. Alexander & Yonah Alexander, Terrorism and Business: The Impact of September 11, 2001), Elizabeth G. Adelman
Bruce H. Mann's Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence, Robert J. Steinfeld
Gunther Peck's Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880–1930, Robert J. Steinfeld
Submissions from 2002
Identity Theft: What You Need to Know, Elizabeth G. Adelman
Terry Thomason, Timothy P. Schmidle, and John F. Burton Jr.'s Workers’ Compensation: Benefits, Costs, and Safety under Alternative Insurance Arrangements (book review), Martha T. McCluskey
Gary Minda's Boycott in America: How Imagination and Ideology Shape the Legal Mind (book review), Robert J. Steinfeld
Submissions from 2001
J. Shand Watson's Theory and Reality in the International Protection of Human Rights, Makau wa Mutua
Submissions from 2000
Meaning and Motive in the Law of Homicide (reviewing Samuel H. Pillsbury, Judging Evil: Rethinking the Law of Murder and Manslaughter), Guyora Binder
Joanne Pope Melish's Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780–1860, Robert J. Steinfeld
Submissions from 1999
William J. Novak's The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in 19th Century America (book review), Alfred S. Konefsky