R. Kent Newmyer

Kent Newmyer, Professor of Law and History. Professor Newmyer regularly offers two seminars in American constitutional and legal history. One focuses on select themes in constitutional history (and varies from semester). The second, Main Currents in American Legal History, treats major historical changes in American law, starting with the early national period and ending with Critical Legal Studies. Before coming to the Law School, Newmyer taught American history at the University of Connecticut. He was designated University Alumni Professor in 1988 and became emeritus in 1997. Newmyer’s publications have appeared in a wide range of historical and legal periodicals. His books include The Supreme Court Under Marshall and Taney, John Marshall & the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court and Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic. The latter received the Littleton-Griswold Award from the American Historical Association in 1985 for the best book on law and society, also a Certificate of Merit from the American Bar Association.