The latest video in my series about Austrian concepts of law and the Austrian experience of landscape is called “Preservation Waltz.” Rare books, forests, and domestic architecture. Sustainability is the key principle:
I discuss the video in this guest post on Environment, Law and History.
In 2004, I published a book called Black Trials, a history of African Americans and the law from the colonial era to the present. The book grew from an undergraduate seminar which I taught in the American Studies program at Stanford in 1999, though its interpretive frame goes back to a doctoral dissertation about anthropology, jurisprudence, and American state development which I later published as Americans without Law.
The basic interpretive frame of Black Trials is the idea that the African American struggle for civic inclusion in the United States has involved a struggle to be viewed as a “people of law”—a struggle which also has involved a conflict about the nature of American law itself.
I discussed that idea in a talk I gave in 2005 at Syracuse University, where I also considered the meaning of the epigram of the book, taken from a poem by Walt Whitman. The talk can be found here.
Worlds of Law 