Barry Cushman
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Percy Brown, Jr., Professor of Law and History (1998)
F.D.G. Ribble Research Professor of Law
American Legal and Constitutional History
Education
B.A., Amherst College, 1982
M.A., University of Virginia, 1986
J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 1986
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1995
Publications, Awards, and Activities
Book
Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution (Oxford University Press, 1998).
Articles
"The Great Depression and the New Deal," in Tomlins & Grossberg, eds., The Cambridge History of Law in America (2008), available at http://law.bepress.com/uvalwps/uva_publiclaw/art23 .
"Regime Theory and Unenumerated Rights: A Cautionary Note," 9 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 263 (2006) (Symposium, "The Future of Unenumerated Rights").
"Some Varieties and Vicissitudes of Lochnerism," 85 B. U. L. Rev. 881 (2005) (Symposium, Lochner Centennial Conference), available at http://law.bepress.com/uvalwps/uva_publiclaw/art22.
“Clerking for Scrooge” (reviewing David J. Garrow & Dennis Hutchinson, eds., The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR’s Washington) 70 U. Chi. L. Rev. 721 (2003).
“Continuity and Change in Commerce Clause Jurisprudence,” 55 Ark. L. Rev. 1009 (2003) (Symposium, "The Commerce Clause: Past, Present, and Future").
“Small Differences?,” 55 Ark. L. Rev. 1097 (2003) (Symposium, "The Commerce Clause: Past, Present, and Future")."Mr. Dooley and Mr. Gallup: Public Opinion and Constitutional Change in the 1930s," 50 Buff. Law R. (2002) (Mitchell Lecture).
"Lochner, Liquor and Longshoremen: A Puzzle in Progressive Era Federalism," 32 J. Mar. L. & Com. 1 (2001).
"Formalism and Realism in Commerce Clause Jurisprudence," 67 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1089 (2000), available on-line from SSRN.
"Lost Fidelities," 41 William & Mary L. Rev. 95 (1999).
"The Hughes Court and Constitutional Consultation," 1998 J. Sup. Ct. Hist. 79 (1998).
"The Secret Lives of the Four Horsemen," 83 Va. L. Rev. 559 (1997).
"Rethinking the New Deal Court," 80 Va. L. Rev. 201 (1994).
"Doctrinal Synergies and Liberal Dilemmas: The Case of the Yellow-Dog Contract," 1992 Sup. Ct. Rev. 235 (1993).
"A Stream of Legal Consciousness: The Current of Commerce Doctrine from Swift to Jones & Laughlin," 61 Fordham. L. Rev. 105 (1992).
"Intestate Succession in a Polygamous Society," 23 Conn. L. Rev. 281 (1991).
Essays and Short Reviews
"The Supreme Court Encounters the New Deal," Insights on Law & Society, Fall 2004 at 7.
“The Supreme Court,” in McElvaine, et al., eds., Encyclopedia of the Great Depression (Macmillan, 2004).
“The Supreme Court ‘Packing’ Controversy,” in McElvaine, et al., eds., Encyclopedia of the Great Depression (Macmillan, 2004).
“Homer Cummings,” in McElvaine, et al., eds., Encyclopedia of the Great Depression (Macmillan, 2004).
"The New Deal's Constitutional Significance," in Levy, Karst & Winkler, eds., Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (2d. ed.) (Macmillan, 2000).
"Edward Terry Sanford," in American National Biography (Oxford University Press, 1999).
"The Commerce Clause: The New Deal," in The Constitution and Its Amendments (Macmillan, 1999).
"John Hessin Clarke," in Urofsky, ed., The Supreme Court Justices: A Biographical Dictionary (Garland, 1994).
"Mahlon Pitney," in Urofsky, ed., The Supreme Court Justices: A Biographical Dictionary (Garland, 1994).
"Edward Terry Sanford," in Urofsky, ed., The Supreme Court Justices: A Biographical Dictionary (Garland, 1994).
Awards
All-University Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Virginia, 2003
American Historical Association's Littleton-Griswold Prize, 1998, for Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution.
Student Bar Association Teacher of the Year Award, St. Louis University School of Law, 1993, 1995
Thompson Coburn Faculty Scholarship Award, St. Louis University School of Law, 1995
Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History at New York University School of Law, 1990-1991
Current research
Early 20th century constitutional development.
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