III. Books

 

The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America (Legal History Series, University

of North Carolina Press, December, 1996). Winner of the American Historical Association’s Littleton-

Griswold Prize, Best Book in the History of Law and Society.

 

The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History. Edited with Meg Jacobs and

Julian Zelizer (Princeton University Press, 2003).

 

Boundaries of the State in US History. Edited with James T. Sparrow and Stephen W. Sawyer (University of

Chicago Press, 2015).

 

Corporations and American Democracy. Edited with Naomi Lamoreaux (Harvard University Press, 2017).

IV. Articles

 

“Revolutionary State Formation: The Origins of the Strong American State,” with Steven Pincus, in John L.

Brooke, Julia C. Strauss, and Greg Anderson, eds., State Formations: Global Histories and Cultures of

Statehood (Cambridge University Press, 2018), 138-155

 

“Response: The People’s Welfare Redux,” American Journal of Legal History, 57 (2017), 248-255.

 

“The Administrative State in America,” in Max Planck Handbooks in European Public Law, Volume I: The

Administrative State, Armin von Bogdandy, Peter M. Huber, and Sabino Cassese, eds. (Oxford University

Press, 2017), 98-124.

 

“The Public Utility Idea and the Origins of Modern Business Regulation,” in The Corporations and American

Democracy, ed. Naomi Lamoreaux and William J. Novak (Harvard University Press, 2017), 139-176.

 

“Corporations and American Democracy: An Introduction,” with Naomi Lamoreaux, in Corporations and

American Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2017), 1-36.

 

“Putting the ‘Public’ in Public Administration: The Rise of the Public Utility Idea,” in Nicholas R. Parrillo, ed.

Administrative Law from the Inside Out: Essays on Themes in the Work of Jerry L. Mashaw (New York:

Cambridge University Press, 2017), 373-397.

 

“Democratic States of Unexception: Towards a New Genealogy of the American

Political,” with Stephen W. Sawyer and James T. Sparrow, in Ann Shola Orloff and Kimberly Morgan, eds. The

Many Hands of the State: Theorizing Political Authority and Social Control (Cambridge University Press,

2017), 229-257.

 

“The Concept of the State in American History,” in Sparrow, Novak, and Sawyer, eds., Boundaries of the State

in U.S. History (University of Chicago Press, 2015), 325- 350.

 

“Introduction,” with James T. Sparrow and Stephen W. Sawyer, in Sparrow, Novak, and Sawyer, eds.

Boundaries of the State in U.S. History (University of Chicago Press, 2015), 1-16.

 

“Beyond Max Weber: The Need for Democratic (not Aristocratic) Theory of the Modern State,” in The

Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville 36 (2015), 43-91.

 

“Beyond Stateless Democracy,” with Stephen W. Sawyer and James T. Sparrow, in The Tocqueville Review/La

Revue Tocqueville 36 (2015), 21-41.

 

“Emancipation and the Creation of Modern Liberal States in America and France,” with Stephen W. Sawyer,

Journal of the Civil War Era, 3 (2013), 467-500.

 

“A Revisionist History of Regulatory Capture,” in Daniel Carpenter and David Moss, eds., Preventing Capture:

Special Interest Influence and How to Limit It (Cambridge University Press, 2013), 25-48.

 

“Toward a History of the Democratic State,” with Stephen W. Sawyer and James T. Sparrow, The Tocqueville

Review/La revue Tocqueville, 33 (2012), 7-18.

 

“Making the Modern American Legislative State,” in Jeffrey Jenkins and Eric Patashnik,

Living Legislation: Durability, Change, and the Politics of American Lawmaking,

Ch. 2 (University of Chicago Press, 2012), 20-43.

 

“Legal Realism and Human Rights,” History of European Ideas, 37 (2011), 168-174.

“Political History after the Cultural Turn,” with Steven Pincus, American Historical Review Perspectives (May,

2011).

 

“Constitutional Theology: The Return of Whig History to American Public Law,” 2010 Michigan State Law

Review 623 (Actual publication date, 2011).

 

“Law and the Social Control of American Capitalism, 1877-1932,” Emory Law Journal 60 (2010), 377-405.

 

“Long Live the Myth of the Weak State: A Response to Adams, Gerstle, and Witt,” American Historical Review

115 (June 2010), 792-800.

 

“Public-Private Governance: A History,” in Martha Minow and Jody Freeman, eds., Government by Contract:

Outsourcing and American Democracy. (Harvard University Press, 2009), 23-40.

 

“The Myth of the ‘Weak’ American State,” American Historical Review 113 (June 2008), 752-772.

 

“A State of Legislatures,” Polity 40 (2008), 340-347.

 

“Police Power and the Transformation of the American State,” in Markus Dubber and Mariana Valverde, eds.,

Police and the Liberal State (Stanford University Press, 2008), 54-73.

 

“The Not-So-Strange Birth of the Modern American State,” Law and History Review 24 (2006), 193-200.

 

“The Legal Transformation of Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century America,” in Meg Jacobs, William J. Novak,

and Julian Zelizer, eds., The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History (Princeton

University Press, 2003), 85-119.

 

“The Pluralist State: The Convergence of Public and Private Power in America,” in Wendy Gamber, Michael

Grossberg, and Hendrik Hartog, eds., American Public Life and the Historical Imagination (University of Notre

Dame Press, 2003), 27- 48.

 

“Private Wealth and Public Health: A Critique of Richard Epstein’s Defense of the ‘Old’ Public Health,”

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 46 (Summer, 2003 Supplement), S176-S198.

 

“The Legal Origins of the Modern American State,” in Bryant Garth, Robert Kagan, and Austin Sarat, eds.,

Looking Back at Law’s Century: Time, Memory, Change (Cornell University Press, 2002), 249-283.

 

“The American Law of Association: The Legal-Political Construction of Civil Society,” Studies in American

Political Development 15 (2001), 163-188; reprinted in American Bar Foundation, Analyzing Law’s Reach:

Empirical Research on Law and Society (ABA, 2008), 493-539.

 

“Law, Capitalism, and the Liberal State: The Historical Sociology of James Willard Hurst,” Law and History

Review, 18 (2000), 97-145.

 

"Common Regulation: The Legal Origins of State Power in America," Hastings Law Journal 45 (1994),

1061-1097.

 

"Public Economy and the Well-Ordered Market: Law and Economic Regulation in Nineteenth-Century

America," Law and Social Inquiry 18 (1993), 1-32. Reprinted in James W. Ely, Jr., ed., Property Rights in

American History: From the Colonial Era to the Present (6 vols., New York, 1997), I, 233-264.

 

"John Marshall," in Richard Fox and James Kloppenberg, eds., A Companion to American Thought (Blackwell,

1995).

 

"Intellectual Origins of the State Police Power: The Common Law Vision of a Well- Regulated Society,"

Institute for Legal Studies Working Paper, Legal History Series (June, 1989).

 

Book Reviews in Business History Review (David A. Moss, When All Else Fails, 2003) Journal of American

History (Gregory Alexander, Commodity and Propriety, 2000; James R. Stoner, Common Law and Liberal

Theory, 1993; Herbert Hovenkamp, Enterprise and American Law, 1992; Paul Kens, Judicial Power and Reform

Politics, 1992); Law and History Review (William James Booth, Households: On the Moral Architecture of the

Economy, 1996); Journal of Interdisciplinary History (David J. Bodenhamer, Fair Trial, 1994); American

Journal of Legal History (Paul and Dickman, Liberty, Property, and Government, 1990).

 

V. Honors and Grants

 

University of Michigan Law School, Visiting Professorship (Fall 2007)

 

New York University Law School, Visiting Professorship (Fall 2004)

 

American Bar Foundation, Visiting Research Fellowship (1999-2000)

 

Littleton-Griswold Prize, Best Book on the History of American Law and Society, American Historical

Association (1996-97).

 

J. David Greenstone Memorial Grant, University of Chicago Social Sciences Division (1997-98).

 

William H. Donner Foundation Development Grant for Center for Comparative Legal History (1994-98,

#94-0277)

 

John M. Olin Faculty Fellowship in Political Thought and History (1993-94, #6-34822).

 

Social Sciences Divisional Research Grant, The University of Chicago (1992-93).

 

Legal History Fellowship, Institute for Legal Studies, UW-Law School (1988-1991).

 

Rose Crown Fellowship in the History of American Civilization at Brandeis (1984-1988).

 

Julia Edwards Graduate Fellowship in History at CWRU (1983).

 

Phi Beta Kappa (1983).

 

Clarence Cramer and John Hall Stewart Awards in History at CWRU (1982 & 1983).

 

Peter Witt Scholarship (1982).