My essay on the remarkable lawyer, reformer and judge, Anna Moscowitz Kross. legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2026/06/anna...

Anna Moscowitz Kross (1891-1979)

[Long-time readers of LHB know that each year I research and write a biographical essay for my legal history exam.  If you'd like to read pr...

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Brandeis on Humphrey's Executor: "If men on the Federal Trade Commission and similar government agencies are not allowed to exercise their independent judgment we should have in effect a dictatorship or a totalitarian state. What would happen to us if Huey Long were President . . . ?"

Here is a recording of a panel, "Lessons from History," at the symposium "Where Does Administrative Law Go from Here?" held at NYU Law last week. I present, alongside Joanna Grisinger, Julian Davis Mortenson, and Nicholas Parrillo. Noah Rosenblum moderated. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE_y...

Symposium Panel 3: Lessons from History

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My essay on the great twentieth-century immigration lawyer and civil libertarian Carol Weiss King. legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/01/caro...

For some historical perspective on the impending war on the federal bureaucracy, here is my essay on law and policy at the early FDA. legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/01/law-...

Law and Politics at the Bureau of Chemistry

[For the exam in my legal history class , I write an essay about some administrative regime that we did not cover but that developed in way...

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