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Steven Wilf - Scholarship

Books

• The Law before the Law (Rowan & Littlefield, 2008).

Journal Articles

• The Making of the Post-War Paradigm in American Intellectual Property Law, 31 Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts (2008).
• The Invention of Legal Primitivism, 9 Theoretical Inquiries in the Law (2008).
• The Ten Commandments Cases: The View from Within, 41 Connecticut Law Review (2008).
• Trade Secrets, Property, and Social Relations, 34 Connecticut Law Review 787 (2002).
• What is Property's Fourth Estate? Cultural Property and the Fiduciary Ideal, 16 Connecticut Journal of International Law 177 (2001).
• The First Republican Revival: Virtue, Judging, and Rhetoric in the Early Republic, 32 Connecticut Law Review 1675 (2000).
• Placing Blame: Criminal Law and Constitutional Narratives in Revolutionary Boston, 4 Crime, Histoire, & Societes 31 (2000).
• Who Authors Trademarks?, 17 Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 7 (1999).
• Imagining Justice: Aesthetics and Public Executions in Late 18th Century England, 5 Yale Journal of Law & Humanities 51 (1993).
• Anatomy & Punishment in Late 18th Century New York, 22 Journal of Social History 507 (1989).

Reviews

• Book Review, Choice (1992) (reviewing Robert B. Shoemaker, Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex (1991)).
• Book Review, International Labor and Working Class History (1990) (reviewing Sharon V. Salinger, To Serve Well and Faithfully@: Labor and Indentured Servants in Pennsylvania (1987)).
• Book Review, Journal of Social History (1990) (reviewing Louis P. Masur, Rites of Execution: Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture (1989)).