Professor Mae Ngai was named an honorary fellow of the American Society for Legal History, the highest honor the Society confers, which recognizes distinguished historians whose scholarship has shaped the broad discipline of legal history and influenced the...
Professor Pablo Piccato was interviewed by El País about Mexico’s justice and security system, which he argues was shaped under the PRI to fail by design—favoring corruption, discretion, and political control over real justice. He explains that violence became...
Professor Hannah Farber is 1 of 17 U.S Historians appointed to the Organization of American Historians’ distinguished lectureship program. Read the full...
Professor Kim Phillips-Fein‘s latest article in The Nation, “How the Capitalism of the 1980s Created Donald Trump’s Theory of the State,” examines the historical precedent behind Trump’s political rise, as well as the economic conditions...
Professor Mae Ngai published an article in The New York Review of Books, “The End of Asylum,” which explores how the second Trump administration has eliminated the distinction between political and economic migrants and questions if this distinction was...