Book Review: The Editor, the Bluenose, and the Prostitute: H.L. Mencken\u27s History of the Hatrack Censorship Case. Edited by Carl Bode.

Book review: The Editor, the Bluenose, and the Prostitute: H.L. Mencken\u27s History of the Hatrack Censorship Case. Edited by Carl Bode. Niwot, Colorado: Roberts, Rinehart, Inc. 1988. Pp. 174. Reviewed by: Norman L. Rosenberg

Constitutional Scholarship: What Next?

Part of Symposium "Constitutional Scholarship: What Next?

Book Review: Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution. by Forrest McDonald.

Book review: Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution. By Forrest McDonald. Lawrence, Kan.: Kansas University Press. 1985. Pp. xiii, 293. Reviewed by: Norman L. Rosenberg

Book Review: Transforming Free Speech: The Ambiguous Legacy of Civil Libertarianism. by Mark A. Graber.

Book review: Transforming Free Speech: The Ambiguous Legacy of Civil Libertarianism. By Mark A. Graber. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. 1991. Pp. xi, 336. Reviewed by: Norman L. Rosenberg

Book Review: A Worthy Tradition: Freedom of Speech in America. by Harry Kalven, Jr. Edited by Jaime Kalven.

Book review: A Worthy Tradition: Freedom of Speech in America. By Harry Kalven, Jr. Edited by Jaime Kalven. New York: Harper & Row. 1988. Pp. 698. Reviewed by: Norman L. Rosenberg

Another History of Free Speech: The 1920s and the 1940s

Helen I. Kelly Awar

Thomas M. Cooley, Liberal Jurisprudence, and the Law of Libel, 1868-1884

During the past two decades, and especially since 1970, there has been a steadily growing interest in American legal history, including the work of nineteenth-century legal figures, including Thomas M.Cooley. Most scholars once dismissed Cooley as a simplistic apologist for laissez faire economics and late nineteenth-century capitalism. Recently, however, legal and constitutional historians have realized that his legal thought was much more complex. In part, this article seeks to extend recent work on Cooley and to examine his ideas and judicial opinions on freedom of expression and the law of libel. Cooley\u27s views about free expression, defamation law, and American journalism are excellent examples of the development and transformation of liberal ideas in the mid-to-late-nineteenth-century legal community. In addition, Cooley\u27s attempts to resolve the problems raised by some of the earliest mass media libel cases offer some historical perspective on recent efforts to sort out the conflicting issues and interests in political and public libel cases

Book Review: Transforming Free Speech: The Ambiguous Legacy of Civil Libertarianism. by Mark A. Graber.

Book review: Transforming Free Speech: The Ambiguous Legacy of Civil Libertarianism. By Mark A. Graber. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. 1991. Pp. xi, 336. Reviewed by: Norman L. Rosenberg

Another History of Free Speech: The 1920s and the 1940s

Helen I. Kelly Awar

Book Review: Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution. by Forrest McDonald.

Book review: Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution. By Forrest McDonald. Lawrence, Kan.: Kansas University Press. 1985. Pp. xiii, 293. Reviewed by: Norman L. Rosenberg