In Between and Across

Kenneth W. Mack is the inaugural Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of History at Harvard University. He is also the co-faculty leader of the Harvard Law School Program on Law and History. He has taught at Harvard, Stanford, Georgetown Universities, and the University of Hawai'i. Professor Mack has also served as Senior Visiting Scholar at the Centre for History and Economics, University of Cambridge. In 2020, he received the Harvard Law School Student Government Teaching and Advising Award. In 2016, President Obama appointed him to the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise.Jacob Katz Cogan is the Judge Joseph P. Kinneary Professor of Law at the College of Law and an Affiliate Faculty Member of the Department of History at the University of Cincinnati. Immediately before joining the College of Law, he served as an attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State. Previously, he was a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He has also held visiting appointments at Vanderbilt University Law School and the University of Chicago Law School.

• Introduction: Rewriting the Boundaries of Legal History, Kenneth W. Mack and Jacob Katz Cogan Part I: The Political Economy of Time1. Views from Rathole Mountain: A Lawscape Journey through Old Virginia, Matthew Axtell2. The Rise of Retail Stockholder Litigation and the Creation of the Plaintiff's Bar in American Business Law, 1930-1950, Donna Dennis3. Private Law, Public Welfare, Marital Ideals, and The Gender Binary . . . or, What I Learned at the Socio-Legal Revolution, Felicia Kornbluh4. Power of the Purse: How <"the Philanthropic North> " Has Helped Determine Which Individuals, Groups, and Ideas in the Black Freedom Struggle Will Thrive Nationally, Maribel Morey5. <"Kindred to Treason> ": Conspiracy Laws in the United States, Sarah Seo Part II: Law, Space, and Place in History6. The Case as Episode: Murder and Migration in Colonial Australia, Catherine L. Evans7. The Chain and the Rope: Illuminating Constitutional Traditions, Maeve Glass8. South Asians at the Inns of Court: Empire, Expulsion, and Redemption circa 1900, Mitra Sharafi Part III: Rethinking Method: Law and Everything Else9. <"Our Experiences Make Us Who We Are> ": Lessons from Thomas Ruffin and Dirk Hartog, Jessica K. Lowe10. Debtor Constitutionalism, Farah Peterson11. Roosters and Resistance, Christina D. Ponsa-Kraus12. Law, History, and the Interwar ACLU's Jewish Lawyers, Laura Weinrib

In Between and Across is an interesting collection of 12 essays covering topics from around the world, ranging from murders to cockfighting. Every essay in this collection is good, but summarizing such a collection is difficult