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 2002
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
Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective, Isabel Marcus
Submissions from 1998
John P. Reeder, Jr.'s Killing and Saving: Abortion, Hunger, and War (book review), Elizabeth B. Mensch
Submissions from 1997
Leopold J. Pospisil's Obernberg: A Quantitative Analysis of a Tirolean Peasant Economy, Rebecca R. French
Does Duncan Kennedy Wear Boxers or Briefs? Does Richard Posner Ever Sleep? Writing About Jurisprudence, High Culture and the History of Intellectuals (review essay), John Henry Schlegel
Submissions from 1996
Of Narrative in Law and Anthropology (reviewing three titles), Rebecca Redwood French
The Politics of Human Rights: Beyond the Abolitionist Paradigm in Africa (review essay), Makau wa Mutua
Talkin' Dirty: Twining's Tower and Kalman's Strange Career (reviewing William Twining, Blackstone's Tower (1994) and Laura Kalman, The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism (1996)), John Henry Schlegel
Submissions from 1995
Lawrence Baum's American Courts: Process and Policy (book review), Lynn M. Mather
Goran Hyden & Winston P. Nagan's Human Rights and Governance in Africa, Makau wa Mutua
Putting Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again: The Dilemmas of the Post-Colonial African State (review essay), Makau wa Mutua
Submissions from 1994
Coherence and Conflict in Law: Proceedings of the 3rd Benelux-Scandinavian Symposium in Legal Theory, Brower, et al, eds., David A. Westbrook
Submissions from 1993
The Graying of America: Law and the Elderly Patient (reviewing Marshall B. Kapp, Geriatrics and the Law: Patient Rights and Professional Responsibilities (2nd ed. 1992)), Charles Patrick Ewing
A Tasty Tidbit (review essay), John Henry Schlegel
Solidarité et égalité, à propos de l'ouvrage de Lee Hamilton and Joseph Sanders, Everyday Justice: Responsibility and the Individual in Japan and the United States, David A. Westbrook
Submissions from 1992
June Starr's Law As Metaphor: From Islamic Courts to the Palace of Justice (book review), David M. Engel
Sally Engle Merry's Getting Justice and Getting Even: Legal Consciousness among Working-Class Americans, David M. Engel
Submissions from 1991
Many Realities Many Words: Abortion and the Struggle Over Meaning (review of three titles), Isabel Marcus
Submissions from 1990
Law and Psychiatry: Caveat Lector (reviewing H. Newcomb Morse, Commentary on Legal Psychiatry (1989)), Charles Patrick Ewing
Michael Van Walt's The Status of Tibet: History, Rights and Prospects in International Law, Rebecca Redwood French
Citizenship and Scholarship (review essay), George Kannar
James Lovelock's The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth (book review), David Leacock and David A. Westbrook
A Sexy New Twist: Reproductive Technologies and Feminism (reviewing multiple titles), Isabel Marcus
Jesse L. Jackson's Straight from the Heart, Stephanie L. Phillips
Submissions from 1989
Battered Women: An Interdisciplinary Approach (reviewing Sonkin, Daniel Jay, ed. Domestic Violence on Trial: Psychological and Legal Dimensions of Family Violence (1987)), Charles Patrick Ewing
The Ten Thousand Dollar Question (review essay), John Henry Schlegel
Submissions from 1988
The Nature of Domination and the Nature of Women: Reflections on Feminism Unmodified (review essay), Lucinda M. Finley
Law and Culture in Antebellum Boston (review essay), Alfred S. Konefsky
Submissions from 1987
Choice and Freedom: Elusive Issues in the Search for Gender Justice (review essay), Lucinda M. Finley
Submissions from 1986
Hartog's New York and the Ideology of Public and Private, Elizabeth B. Mensch
Submissions from 1985
M.C. Hoadley and M.B. Hooker's An Introduction to Javanese Law: A Translation of and Commentary on the Agama, David M. Engel
Review of Empirical Theories About Courts, Keith O. Boyum and Lynn Mather, eds., David M. Engel
Theory Falls Apart (review of two titles), George Kannar
Submissions from 1984
Thinking about Statutes: Hurst, Calabresi, Twining and Miers (review essay), Janet S. Lindgren and John Henry Schlegel
Langdell's Legacy: or The Case of the Empty Envelope (review essay), John Henry Schlegel
Submissions from 1982
Representative Egos (review essay), George Kannar
Submissions from 1981
On the Early History of Lower Federal Courts, Judges and the Rule of Law (review of two titles), Alfred S. Konefsky
Freedom of Contract as Ideology, Elizabeth B. Mensch
Submissions from 1980
M.B. Hooker's A Concise Legal History of South-East Asia, David M. Engel
M.B. Hooker's Adat Law in Modern Indonesia, David M. Engel
Submissions from 1979
Anselm Strauss's Negotiations: Varieties, Contexts, Processes, and Social Order (book review), Lynn M. Mather
Plea Bargaining Reexamined (review of Milton Heumann, Plea Bargaining: The Experiences of Prosecutors, Judges, and Defense Attorneys), Lynn M. Mather
Submissions from 1977
Maxwell Bloomfield's American Lawyers in a Changing Society, 1776-1876 (book review), Alfred S. Konefsky
Submissions from 1973
Stanley I. Kutler's Privilege and Creative Destruction: The Charles River Bridge Case and Francis N. Stites, Private Interest and Public Gain: The Dartmouth College Case, 1819, Alfred S. Konefsky
Submissions from 1971
Gerald T. Dunne's Justice Joseph Story and the Rise of the Supreme Court (book review), Alfred S. Konefsky
Submissions from 1969
Walker Lewis's Speak for Yourself, Daniel (book review), Alfred S. Konefsky