Barry Cushman

James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law (1998)

David H. Ibbeken '71 Research Professor of Law

Professor of History

Office: Withers-Brown (Law) 384

Phone: (434) 924-7371

Email: bjc2r (at) virginia.edu

Fields & Specialties

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 Securities Laws and the Mechanics of Legal Change," 95 Va. L. Rev. 927 (2009).

"The Great Depression and the New Deal," in Michael Grossberg & Christopher Tomlins, eds., Cambridge History of Law in America 268 (Cambridge University Press, 2008).

“The Structure of Classical Public Law” (reviewing Duncan Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of Classical Legal Thought), 75 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1917 (2008).

"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).

“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).

"Lost Fidelities," 41 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 95 (1999) (Institute of Bill of Rights Law Symposium, "Fidelity, Economic Liberty, and 1937").

"The Hughes Court and Constitutional Consultation," 1998 J. Sup. Ct. Hist. 79 (1998) (Supreme Court Historical Society Lecture).

"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

Book Review of Shlaes, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, 71 The Historian 383 (2009).

"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.