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.

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Submissions from 1999

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Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective, Isabel Marcus

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Silencing the Guns in Haiti, Elizabeth Mensch

Submissions from 1998

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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

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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

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Of Narrative in Law and Anthropology (reviewing three titles), Rebecca Redwood French

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Many Realities Many Words: Abortion and the Struggle Over Meaning (review of three titles), Isabel Marcus

Submissions from 1990

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Law and Psychiatry: Caveat Lector (reviewing H. Newcomb Morse, Commentary on Legal Psychiatry (1989)), Charles Patrick Ewing

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Michael Van Walt's The Status of Tibet: History, Rights and Prospects in International Law, Rebecca Redwood French

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Citizenship and Scholarship (review essay), George Kannar

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The Marshall Court and the Writing of Law and History (review of G. Edward White, The Marshall Court and Cultural Change, 1815-35, Vols. 3 and 4. The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States), Alfred S. Konefsky

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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

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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

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The Ten Thousand Dollar Question (review essay), John Henry Schlegel

Submissions from 1988

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The Nature of Domination and the Nature of Women: Reflections on Feminism Unmodified (review essay), Lucinda M. Finley

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Law and Culture in Antebellum Boston (review essay), Alfred S. Konefsky

Submissions from 1987

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Choice and Freedom: Elusive Issues in the Search for Gender Justice (review essay), Lucinda M. Finley

Submissions from 1986

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Crisis Intervention: Two Very Different Approaches (reviewing James E. Hendricks, Crisis Intervention: Contemporary Issues for On-Site Interveners (1985) and Lee Ann Hoff, People in Crisis: Understanding and Helping (2nd ed. 1984)), Charles Patrick Ewing

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Hartog's New York and the Ideology of Public and Private, Elizabeth B. Mensch

Submissions from 1985

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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

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Langdell's Legacy: or The Case of the Empty Envelope (review essay), John Henry Schlegel

Submissions from 1982

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Representative Egos (review essay), George Kannar

Submissions from 1981

Penal Reform and Progressive Ideology (reviewing David J. Rothman, Conscience and Convenience: The Asylum and its Alternatives in Progressive America (1980)), Guyora Binder

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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

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Plea Bargaining Reexamined (review of Milton Heumann, Plea Bargaining: The Experiences of Prosecutors, Judges, and Defense Attorneys), Lynn M. Mather

Submissions from 1977

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Maxwell Bloomfield's American Lawyers in a Changing Society, 1776-1876 (book review), Alfred S. Konefsky

Submissions from 1973

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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

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Gerald T. Dunne's Justice Joseph Story and the Rise of the Supreme Court (book review), Alfred S. Konefsky

Submissions from 1969

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Walker Lewis's Speak for Yourself, Daniel (book review), Alfred S. Konefsky