Books

Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States, 5 volumes (Macmillan Reference USA, 2008) [Editor-in-Chief].Juvenile Justice in the Making (Oxford University Press, 2004).

A Century of Juvenile Justice, ed. by Margaret K. Rosenheim, Franklin E. Zimring, David S.Tanenhaus, and Bernardine Dohrn (University of Chicago Press, 2002).

Book Chapters and Articles

“Toward a History of Children as Witnesses,” with William Bush, Indiana Law Journal 82: 4 (Fall 2007): 1059-1075.

“Between Dependency and Liberty:  The Conundrum of Children’s Rights in the Gilded Age,” Law and History Review 23:2 (Summer 2005): 351-385.

“Degrees of Discretion:  The First Juvenile Court and the Problem of Difference in the EarlyTwentieth Century,” in Darnell F. Hawkins and Kimberly Kempf-Leonard, eds. Our Children,Their Children:  Confronting Race and Ethnic Difference in American Juvenile Justice (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), 105-121.

“Before the Doors Closed:  A Historical Perspective on Public Access,” Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal Symposium (Fall 2004): 1-7.

“‘Owing to the extreme youth of the accused’:  The Changing Legal Response to Juvenile Homicide,” with Steven A. Drizin, The Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 92 (2002): 641-706.

“The Evolution of Juvenile Courts in the Early Twentieth Century:  Beyond the Myth of

Immaculate Construction,” in Margaret K. Rosenheim, Franklin E. Zimring, David S.

Tanenhaus, and Bernardine Dohrn, eds., A Century of Juvenile Justice (Chicago: University ofChicago Press, 2002), 42-73.

“Growing Up Dependent:  Family Preservation in Early Twentieth-Century Chicago,” Law and History Review 19 (Fall 2001): 547-582.

“The Evolution of Transfer out of the Juvenile Court,” in Jeffrey Fagan and Franklin E. Zimring, eds., The Changing Borders of Juvenile Justice:  Transfer of Adolescents to the Criminal Court (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 13-43.

“Rotten to the Core:  The Juvenile Court and the Problem of Legitimacy in the Progressive Era,” in Gwen Hoerr McNamee, ed., A Noble Social Experiment?  The First 100 Years of the Cook County Juvenile Court, 1899-1999 (Chicago: The Chicago Bar Association, 1999), 24-28.

“Justice for the Child:  The Beginnings of the Juvenile Court in Chicago,” Chicago History 27 (Winter 1998-1999): 4-19.

Book Reviews and Essays

“Transforming a Field:  The Critical Tradition in American Legal History,” a review of

Transformations in American Legal History:  Essays in Honor of Professor Morton J. Horwitz, ed. by Daniel W. Hamilton and Alfred L. Brophy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009), Reviews in American History, 37 (forthcoming June, 2010). 

“Free to be Us,” a review of Matthew W. Finkin and Robert C. Post, For the Common Good: Principles of Academic Freedom (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), in the Journal of Legal Education, forthcoming 2010.

Heather Cox Richardson, West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War New Haven:  Yale University Press, 2007) and Jeffrey S. Adler, First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt: Homicide in Chicago, 1875-1920 Cambridge, Massachusetts:  Harvard University Press, 2006), in Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (forthcoming). 

Tamara Myers, Caught:  Montreal’s Modern Girls and the Law, 1869-1945 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006), in American Historical Review 113 (forthcoming October, 2009). 

“Childhood in History, Literature, and Law:  Confronting Authority, Illegitimacy, Myth, and Rights,” Journal of Women’s History 20 (Summer 2008): 183-191. 

Stephen Robertson, Crimes against Children:  Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880-1960 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005), in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2007).

David Wolcott, Cops and Kids:  Policing Juvenile Delinquency in Urban America, 1890-1940 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2005), in The Journal of American History (2005).

Michael Willrich, City of Courts:  Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003), in Social Service Review (2004).

Victoria Getis, The Juvenile Court & the Progressives (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000), in Law and History Review (2003). 

Scott Christianson, With Liberty for Some:  500 Years of Imprisonment in America (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998), in Law and History Review (2001). 

“Welfare, History, and the Framing of Twenty-First-Century Social Policy,” Social Service Review 74 (September 2000): 474-481. 

Estelle B. Freedman, Maternal Justice:  Miriam Van Waters and the Female Reform Tradition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), in Law and History Review (1999).

Christopher P. Manfredi, The Supreme Court and Juvenile Justice (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1997), in Law and History Review (1999).

Kriste Lindenmeyer, “A Right to Childhood”: The U.S. Children’s Bureau and Child Welfare, 1912-46” (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997), in Journal of Policy History (1999). 

Wayne N. Welsh, Counties in Court:  Jail Overcrowding and Court-Ordered Reform (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995), in Journal of Policy Analysis & Management (1997).

Encyclopedia Entries

“Juvenile Justice,” Encyclopedia of Legal History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).

“Juvenile Court,” with Steven L. Schlossman, Chicago Companion to the Child (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009).

“Julian W. Mack,” The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 

“Burger Court; Dennis v. United States; In Re Gault; and Sex Discrimination,” Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (Detroit, MI: MacMillan Reference USA, 2008).

“Juvenile Justice,” Social Issues: An Encyclopedia of Controversies, Histories, and Debates (New York : ME Sharp, 2006).

“Juvenile Court,” Encyclopedia of Chicago History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004). 

“Juvenile Courts,” Boyhood in America: An Encyclopedia (New York: ABC-CLIO, 2001).

Forwards

“The Original Intent of the Fourteenth Amendment: A Conversation with Eric Foner,” 6 Nevada Law Journal (2005-2006): 425-446. 

“In This Issue,” Law and History Review, vol. 24 – (2006 -)

Opinion-Editorial

“Barack, Bill and Me,” Slate, October 10, 2008.

“From a Second-Chance Kid to a Hero,” Los Angeles Times, May 4, 2004.

Works in Progress

In Re Gault:  Children, Crime, and the Pursuit of Justice (under contract with University Press of Kansas Landmark Law Cases and American Society Series).

“Origins and Contemporary History of Juvenile Court,” in Barry C. Feld and Donna M. Bishop, eds. Oxford Handbook on Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice (New York: Oxford University Press).

PRIZES AND AWARDS

UNLV nominee for CASE/Carnegie Foundation Professor of the Year.

Charles E. Payne Honor Scholarship for Outstanding Rising Senior in History at Grinnell College.

Boyd School of Law Summer Research Grant.

Mellon Foundation-University of Chicago Dissertation-Year Fellowship.

“Do Children Have Constitutional Rights?”  UNLV Constitution Day Public Lectureship,

Las Vegas, NV (September 2009)

“Gerald’s Story:  Children, Crime, and the Pursuit of Justice,” NYU Legal

History Workshop, New York, NY (April 2008).

“Can the Nation Be a Parent?  Delinquency, Federalism and the Limits of Progressive Juvenile Justice,” University of Virginia Legal History Workshop, Charlottesville, VA (October 2005).

Book Colloquium, Juvenile Justice in the Making, Program on Legal and Constitutional History, University of Virginia Law School, Charlottesville, VA (October 2005).

 “Before the Doors Closed:  Public Access to the First Juvenile Court,” University of

Connecticut’s Law School’s Annual Symposium: “Public Access to Juvenile Court Child

Protection Proceedings:  Should the Doors be Open or Closed?” Hartford, CT (November 2004).

Panelist for “Youth, Justice, and the Leopold and Loeb Legacy,” Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, IL (June 2004). 

“The History of Juvenile Justice,” CBS’s Judging Amy, Hollywood, CA (June 2004). 

Book Colloquium, Juvenile Justice in the Making, Northwestern University Law School, Chicago, IL (April 2004). 

Book Colloquium, A Century of Juvenile Justice, Northwestern University Law School, Chicago, IL (October 2002).

“The Evolution of Juvenile Courts in the Early Twentieth Century:  Beyond the Myth of

Immaculate Conception,” John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice, Network Core Group Meetings, San Diego, CA (February 2001). 

“Unraveling Juvenile Homicide at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century,” with Steven A. Drizin, Meeting of the Advisory Board of the Children and Family Justice Center, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, IL (January 2001).

“The Evolution of Juvenile Justice,” 2000-2001 Fellows’ Seminar, The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL (November 2000).

“Diversity and Discretion:  Juvenile Justice and the Problem of Difference in the Early Twentieth Century,” John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice Authors’ Meeting, Chicago, IL (October 2000). 

“The Beginning of Juvenile Justice,” Juvenile Court Centennial Initiative, Washington, D.C. (June 2000). 

“Lawyers in American History,” Introduction to Law Week, William S. Boyd School of Law, Las Vegas, NV (August 1999).

“Law and Governance in Progressive America,” Alumni-Scholars Lecture, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA (April 1999).

“From Songs of Innocence to Songs of Experience:  The Historical Roots and Growth of American Juvenile Justice, 1850-1950,” Authors’ Meeting, A Century of Juvenile Justice, Chicago, IL (March 1999).

“Contested Justice:  The Cook County (Chicago) Juvenile Court in the Progressive Era,

Children’s Court Centennial Speakers’ Series, Chicago, IL (October 1998).

“The Evolution of Waiver in the Juvenile Court,” Chapter Authors and Reviewers Meeting, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice, Coral Gables, FL (November 1998). 

“What’s the State to do?” Comparative Legal History Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (April 1993).

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND COMMENTS