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Michael Willrich

EDUCATION

University of Chicago, Ph.D., 1997

University of Chicago, M.A., 1992

Yale University, A.B., 1987

RESEARCH INTERESTS

U.S. social and legal history, urban history, Progressive Era

CURRENT PROJECTS

Speaking Law to Power: Legal Resistance to the Modern American State

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS

"Urbanism is History: A Review Essay" Connecticut History 2006

Review of "Changing the World...and The Radical Middle Class" Social History (2006)

Criminal Justice Since 1920 2006

Book Review of "Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920" The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2004

"Boyz to Men...And Back Again?: Revisiting a Forgotten Experiment in Juvenile Justice" Judicature 86 (2003): 258-262

Book Review of "Reform and Resistance: Gender, Delinquency, and America's First Juvenile Court" Journal of American History, 89 (2003)

The Case for Courts: Law and Political Development in the Progressive Era" The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History 2003

"Close That Place of Hell: Poor Women and the Cultural Politics of Prohibition" Journal of Urban History 29 (2003)

"Dickering for Justice: Power, Interests and the Plea Bargaining Juggernaut" Reviews in American History 31 (2003)

Book Review of "The Juvenile Court and the Progressives" The Historian (2003)

Cith of Courts: Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago Cambridge University Press, 2003

"Home Slackers: Men, the State, and Welfare in Modern America" Journal of American History 87 (2000): 460-489

"The Two Percent Solution: Eugenic Jurisprudence and the Socialization of American Law, 1900-1930" Law and History Review 16 (1998): 63-111

COURSES OFFERED AT BRANDEIS

USEM 32b: Crime and Punishment in History

HIST 51a: History of the United States: 1607-1877

HIST 160a: American Legal History I

HIST 160b: American Legal History II

HIST 168b: America in the Progressive Era: 1890-1920

HIST 200b: Colloquium in American History

HIST 201a: Major Problems in American Legal History

HIST 205a: Social Politics in the Progressive Era

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