
David Tanenhaus, Ph.D.
Office: Wright Hall, B 311
Phone: (702) 895-3549
Email: david.tanenhaus@unlv.edu
Website: David Tanenhaus, Ph.D.
- American Legal History
- U.S. Constitutional History
- Children and Society
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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
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