John Fabian Witt
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Fabian Witt is Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He is the author of Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History, which won the 2013 Bancroft Prize in history of the Americas and, in 2020, American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19.
John Fabian Witt's Published Works
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- Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History (2012) (34)
- The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law (2004) (32)
- Patriots and Cosmopolitans: Hidden Histories of American Law (2007) (28)
- Form and Substance in the Law of Counterinsurgency Damages (2008) (13)
- Speedy Fred Taylor and the Ironies of Enterprise Liability (2003) (11)
- Toward a new History of American Accident Law: Classical Tort Law and the Cooperative First-Party Insurance Movement (2001) (11)
- Rethinking the Nineteenth-Century Employment Contract, Again (2000) (10)
- The Inevitability of Aggregate Settlement: An Institutional Account of American Tort Law (2004) (10)
- From Loss of Services to Loss of Support: The Wrongful Death Statutes, the Origins of Modern Tort Law, and the Making of the Nineteenth-Century Family (2000) (9)
- The transformation of work and the law of workplace accidents, 1842-1910. (1998) (9)
- Law and War in American History (2010) (7)
- Anglo-American Empire and the Crisis of the Legal Frame (Will the Real British Empire Please Stand Up?) (2007) (7)
- Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America/republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence/debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America (2003) (5)
- Strategy & Entailments: The Enduring Role of Law in the U.S. Armed Forces (2017) (5)
- Bureaucratic Legalism, American Style: Private Bureaucratic Legalism and the Governance of the Tort System (2007) (5)
- Two Conceptions of Suffering in War (2012) (5)
- Crystal Eastman and the Internationalist Beginnings of American Civil Liberties (2004) (4)
- American Contagions (2020) (3)
- Making the Fifth: The Constitutionalization of American Self-Incrimination Doctrine, 1791-1903 (1999) (3)
- Intrastatutory Federalism and Statutory Interpretation: State Implementation of Federal Law in Health Reform and Beyond (2012) (3)
- Law As . . . " : Theory and Method in Legal History Article 9 9-2011 Conceptions of Law in the Civil Rights Movement (2018) (3)
- The Accidental Republic (2004) (3)
- International Law in the U.S. Supreme Court: A Social History of International Law: Historical Commentary, 1861–1900 (2011) (2)
- Movement Capture or Movement Strategy? A Critical Race History Exchange on the Beginnings of Brown v. Board (2020) (2)
- Inventing the War Crime: An Internal Theory (2019) (2)
- The Political Economy of Pain (2013) (2)
- The Metaphysics of Mind and the Practical Science of the Law (2008) (2)
- A Lost Theory of American Emergency Constitutionalism (2018) (2)
- The Long History of State Constitutions and American Tort Law (2005) (1)
- Kal Raustiala, Does the Constitution Follow the Flag? The Evolution of Territoriality in American Law , Oxford University Press. 2009. Pp. 352. $29.95 (ISBN 978-0-19-530459-6). (2010) (1)
- The Dismal History of the Laws of War (2011) (1)
- The Internationalist Beginnings of American Civil Liberties (2004) (1)
- Civil War Historians and the Laws of War (2014) (1)
- The Secret History of the Chief Justice’s Obamacare Decision (2013) (1)
- The Czar and the Slaves: Two Puzzles in the History of International Arbitration (2019) (1)
- Tort As Private Administration (2019) (1)
- For Bob Gordon (2018) (1)
- Elias Hill's Exodus (2007) (1)
- The Fourteenth Amendment as an Ending: Constitutional Beginnings and the Demise of the War Power (2020) (1)
- Ives and MacPherson: Judicial Process in the Regulatory State (2016) (0)
- Shifting the Scope: How Taking School Demographics into Account in College Admissions Could Reduce K-12 Segregation Nationwide (2018) (0)
- Introduction: Constraint, Authority, and the Rule of Law in a Federal Circuit Court of Appeals (2016) (0)
- Fold pattern for an inflatable seat belt (2015) (0)
- The Hands Lecture: Adjudication in the Age of Disagreement (2016) (0)
- The Jury in Lincoln's America (2014) (0)
- Modernism and Antimodernism in the Federal Courts: Reflections on the Federal District Court for the District of Connecticut on the 100th Anniversary of Its New Haven Courthouse Feature (2015) (0)
- Book review -- Caught in the machinery: workplace accidents and injured workers in nineteenth‐century Britain - by Jamie L. Bronstein (2011) (0)
- State Constitutions and American Tort Law: A History (2004) (0)
- Weaponized from the Beginning (2022) (0)
- Introduction: The Features of American Nationhood (2007) (0)
- Radical Histories versus Liberal Histories in Work Injury Law: Nate Holdren, Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and the Law in the Progressive Era (2020) (0)
- An Answer to Scientific Racism (2018) (0)
- Immoral Purposes: Marriage and the Genus of Illicit Sex (2020) (0)
- The Fourteenth Amendment as an Ending: From Bayonet Justice to Paper Rights (2019) (0)
- Physical and Analytical General Session 5 (2018) (0)
- Workmen's Compensation and the Logics of Social Insurance (2002) (0)
- On Adopting a Posture of Moral Neutrality (2014) (0)
- The Passion of William Werner (2003) (0)
- Yale Law School Global Constitutionalism Seminar, E-Book Volumes 1-5, 2016 (2016) (0)
- Kenneth S. Abraham, The Liability Century: Insurance and Tort Law from the Progressive Era to 9/11 , Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. 274. $45.00 (ISBN 978-0-674-02768-8). (2009) (0)
- The Klan on Trial (1997) (0)
- The Law of Salus Populi (2020) (0)
- Epilogue: Law and the National Frame (2007) (0)
- The Pyramid and the Machine: Founding Visions of the Nation in the Life of James Wilson (2007) (0)
- The Partisan Transformation of American Public Health Law, 1918 to 2020. (2021) (0)
- Adjudication in the Age of Disagreement (2017) (0)
- CPR: ABC or CAB (2019) (0)
- A Duty to Capture (2014) (0)
- Sally H. Clarke, Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 296. $56.00 (ISBN 978-0-521-86878-5). (2009) (0)
- Final Remarks For Bob Gordon (2018) (0)
- The View from the U.S. Leviathan: Histories of International Law in the Hegemon (2022) (0)
- The King and the Dean: Melvin Belli, Roscoe Pound, and the Common Law Nation (2007) (0)
- Garland's Million; or, the Tragedy and Triumph of Legal History: American Society for Legal History Plenary Lecture, New Orleans, 2021 – CORRIGENDUM (2022) (0)
- Contingency, Immanence, and Inevitability in the Law of Accidents (2007) (0)
- Radical Histories / Liberal Histories in Work Injury Law (2020) (0)
- Weapons of Truth : Money, Propaganda, and Civil Liberties in World War I America (2016) (0)
- Two Humanitarianisms in Ambrose Bierce's 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' (2018) (0)
- Internationalism and the Dilemmas of Strategic Patriotism (2006) (0)
- Jennifer Egan's Dive for the Inarticulate (2019) (0)
- Two Humanitarianisms in Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (0)
- Contract’s Revenge: The Waiver Society and the Death of Tort (2019) (0)
- Narrating Bankruptcy / Narrating Risk (2004) (0)
- Garland's Million; or, the Tragedy and Triumph of Legal History: American Society for Legal History Plenary Lecture, New Orleans, 2021 (2022) (0)
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