Contents

Editorial Staff
In This Issue		v

Articles

Judicial Reform and the Role of Medical Expertise in Late Imperial Russian Courts
	Elisa M. Becker		1
The People versus Zephyr Davis: Law and Popular Justice in Late Nineteenth-Century Chicago
	Elizabeth Dale		27
Forum. That Impecunious Introvert from New Hampshire: Re-Imagining Langdell
"Warn Students That I Entertain Heretical Opinions, Which They Are Not to Take as Law": The Inception of Case Method Teaching in the Classrooms of the Early C. C. Langdell, 1870–1883
	Bruce A. Kimball		57
	Comments
	Langdell Laughs
		William P. LaPiana	141
	"Langdell, We Hardly Knew Ye"
		Howard Schweber	145
	Langdell's Auto-da-fé
		John Henry Schlegel	149
	Response
	The Life of Langdell Has Not Been Logic; It Has Been Experience
		Bruce A. Kimball	155
Notes and Commentary
	The Scottish Case That Led to Hardwicke's Marriage Act
		Leah Leneman	161

Book Reviews

Inquests and Indictments from Late Fourteenth Century Buckinghamshire—Lesley Boatwright, editor
	reviewed by Roger D. Groot	171
Courts, Counties, and the Capital in the Later Middle Ages—Diana E. S. Dunn, editor
	reviewed by Daniel Klerman	173
The Law of Evidence in Victorian England—Christopher J. W. Allen
	reviewed by Jennifer L. Mnookin	174
Russian Corporate Capitalism from Peter the Great to Perestroika—Thomas C. Owen
	reviewed by Jonathan Grant	177
The Birth of the Penitentiary in Latin America: Essays on Criminology, Prison Reform, and Social Control,1830–1940—Ricardo D. Salvatore and Carlos Aguirre, editors
	reviewed by Alexandra Stern	179
The Legal Culture of Northern New Spain, 1700–1810—Charles R. Cutter
	reviewed by Susan Scafidi	182
The Political and Legal Philosophy of James Wilson, 1742–1798—Mark David Hall
	reviewed by Eduardo A. Velásquez	184
The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America—William J. Novak
	reviewed by Alfred S. Konefsky	187
Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction—Laura F. Edwards
	reviewed by Jane Dailey	191
The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871–1872—Lou Faulkner Williams
	reviewed by Michael W. Fitzgerald	193
Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law—Lucy E. Salyer
	reviewed by Linda Przybyszewskireviewed by Roger Daniels	195
Fighting Organized Crime: Politics, Justice, and the Legacy of Thomas E. Dewey—Mary M. Stolberg
	reviewed by Michael Willrich	197
Creating a National Home: Building the Veterans' Welfare State, 1860–1900—Patrick J. Kelly
	reviewed by Kathleen Frydl	200
Origins of Law and Economics: The Economists' New Science of Law, 1830–1930—Heath Pearson
	reviewed by Herbert Hovenkamp	201
My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin—John Hope Franklin and John Whittington Franklin, editors
	reviewed by J. Clay Smith, Jr.	203
Division and Discord: The Supreme Court under Stone and Vinson, 1941–1953—Melvin I. Urofsky
	reviewed by Dennis Hutchinson	205
The H-Law Resource Page		207

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