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R. Kent Newmyer - Scholarship
Contact Information:
R. Kent Newmyer
Professor of Law and History
Hosmer 301
Hosmer 301
860-570-5380
E-mail R. Kent Newmyer
Books
- John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court (LSU Press, 2001).
- Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic (Chapel Hill, 1985).
- The Supreme Court Under Marshall and Taney (New York, 1968).
Book Chapters
- Essays on John Marshall, Joseph Story, and selected Supreme Court decisions, in The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States (Kermit Hall, ed., 1992).
- Essays on the Taney Court, Justices Barbour, Baldwin, McLean, Trimble and McKinley, in Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (Levy & K.Karst, eds., 1986).
- Essays on Justice Story and Chief Justices Marshall and Taney, in Encyclopedia of World Biography.
Journal Articles
- A Judge for all Seasons, 43 William and Mary Law Review 1463 (2002).
- The Lost Legal World of Joseph Story, 4 Constitution 58 (1992).
- Harvard Law School, New England Legal Culture, and the Antebellum Origins of American Jurisprudence, 74 Journal of American History 814 (1987).
- Daniel Webster and the Modernization of American Law, 32 Buffalo Law Review 819 (1983) [review essay].
- Justice Joseph Story's Doctrine of >Public and Private Corporations= and the Rise of the American Business Corporation, 25 DePaul Law Review 825 (1976).
- History Over Law: The Taney Court, 27 Stanford Law Review 1373 (1975).
- Justice Joseph Story, the Charles River Bridge Case and the Crisis of Republicanism, 17 American Journal of Legal History 232 (1973).
- Justice Joseph Story on Circuit and a Neglected Phase of American Legal History, 14 American Journal of Legal History 112 (1970).
- On Assessing the Court in History, 21 Stanford Law Review 540 (1969).
- Daniel Webster as Tocqueville's Lawyer, 11 American Journal of Legal History 127 (1967).
- Joseph Story and the War of 1812: A Judicial Nationalist, 26 The Historian 486 (1964).
- A Note on the Whig Politics of Justice Joseph Story, 68 Mississippi Valley History Review 480 (1961).