Michael Willrich
EDUCATION
University of Chicago, Ph.D., 1997 |
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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

