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Vol. 26 , No. 1

Spring 2008



Editorial Staff  

In This Issue vii

Articles

"The Federal Posse Comitatus Doctrine: Slavery, Compulsion, and Statecraft in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America
Gautham Rao 1

Shareholder and Director Liability for Unpaid Workers' Wages in Canada: From Condition of Granting Limited Liability to Exceptional Remedy
Eric Tucker 57


Forum: Consciousness and Culpability on Trial

The Mind of a Moral Agent: Scottish Common Sense and the Problem of Responsibility in Nineteenth-Century American Law
Susanna L. Blumenthal 99

Comment
The Metaphysics of Mind and the Practical Science of the Law
Sarah A. Seo and John Fabian Witt 161
 
Scottish Common Sense and Nineteenth-Century American Law: A Critical Appraisal
John Mikhail 167
 
Response
Metaphysics, Moral Sense, and the Pragmatism of the Law
Susanna L. Blumenthal 177
 


Book Reviews

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law—Michael Gagarin and David Cohen, editors
reviewed by Nicole LeFrancois 187

Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law: Theory and Practice from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Century—Rudolph Peters
reviewed by Christopher Melchert 188

On Common Laws—H. Patrick Glenn
reviewed by Emily Kadens 190

The Theory and Practice of Revolt in Medieval England—Claire Valente
reviewed by Robert C. Stacey 191

The Rise and Fall of the English Ecclesiastical Courts, 1500Æ1860—R. B. Outhwaite
reviewed by Stephen Waddams 193

Law and Authority in Early Modern England: Essays Presented to Thomas Garden Barnes—Buchanan Sharp and Mark Charles Fissel, editors
reviewed by Howard Nenner 195

Crime and Law in England, 1750Æ1840: Remaking Justice from the Margins—Peter King
reviewed by Thomas P. Gallanis 197

The Bar and the Old Bailey, 1750Æ1850—Allyson N. May
reviewed by Wendie Ellen Schneider 198

John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty—Arthur H. Cash
reviewed by Timothy Milford 200

A Jurisprudence of Power: Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law—R. W. Kostal
reviewed by Michael Ashley Stein 201

Reconstructing the Commercial Republic: Constitutional Design after Madison—Stephen L. Elkin
reviewed by Alison L. LaCroix 203

M'Culloch v. Maryland: Securing a Nation—Mark R. Killenbeck
reviewed by Gerard N. Magliocca 205

American Taxation, American Slavery—Robin L. Einhorn
reviewed by Ajay K. Mehrotra 206

The Rescue of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War—H. Robert Baker
reviewed by Albert J. von Frank 208

Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets in Antebellum America: The Bank of the United States in Mississippi, 1831Æ1852—Richard Holcombe Kilbourne, Jr.
reviewed by Jenny Wahl 210

Justice Curtis in the Civil War Era: At the Crossroads of American Constitutionalism—Stuart Streichler
reviewed by George Van Cleve 211

The Limits of Sovereignty: Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War—Daniel W. Hamilton
reviewed by Stephen A. Siegel 213

Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in PostÆCivil War America—Garrett Epps
reviewed by Alexander Tsesis 215

The Abortion Rights Controversy in America: A Legal Reader—N. E. H. Hull, Williamjames Hoffer, and Peter Charles Hoffer, editors
reviewed by Felice Batlan 216

Noble Purposes: Nine Champions of the Rule of Law—Norman Gross, editor
reviewed by Paul D. Carrington 218

The American State Constitutional Tradition—John J. Dinan
reviewed by Robert F. Williams 219

Calculating Promises: The Emergence of Modern American Contract Doctrine—Roy Kreitner
reviewed by A. W. Brian Simpson 221

Governing Through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear—Jonathan Simon
reviewed by Christopher Waldrep 222

Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement—James B. Jacobs
reviewed by Joseph Slater 224


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