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Raquel Casas
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David Wrobel

 

 David Tanenhaus, Ph.D.
David Tanenhaus, Ph.D.

Office: Wright Hall, B 311
Phone: (702) 895-3549
Email: david.tanenhaus@unlv.edu

  • American Legal History
  • U.S. Constitutional History
  • Children and Society

David S. Tanenhaus is Associate Professor of History and the James E. Rogers Professor of History and Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law.

He is a graduate of Grinnell College and received his M.A. and Ph.D. in U.S. History from the University of Chicago. Since coming to UNLV in 1997, he has taught courses on American legal and constitutional history, the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, children and society, and introductory surveys of U.S. History.

He has written extensively about children and the law, including Juvenile Justice in the Making (Oxford University Press, 2004) and co-edited, with Margaret K. Rosenheim, Franklin E. Zimring, and Bernardine Dohrn, A Century of Juvenile Justice (University of Chicago, 2002). He is currently working on the origins and development of federal juvenile justice policy.

During 2000-2001, he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Newberry Library. In 2004, the American Society for Legal History appointed him to a five-year term as the Editor of Law and History Review: http://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/lhr.html