Kristin A. Collins

Boston University School of Law

Professor of Law

765 Commonwealth Avenue

Boston, MA 02215

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

7

DOWNLOADS

960

SSRN CITATIONS

6

CROSSREF CITATIONS

3

Scholarly Papers (7)

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Illegitimate Borders: Jus Sanguinis Citizenship and the Legal Construction of Family, Race, and Nation

123 Yale Law Journal 2134 (2014), Boston Univ. School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 14-36
Number of pages: 103 Posted: 02 Jul 2014
Kristin A. Collins
Boston University School of Law
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citizenship, immigration, jus sanguinis, derivative citizenship, race, family law, nation, domestic relations, marriage, illegitimacy, unwed, exclusion act, gender, sex discrimination, children, equal protection, bureaucracy, administrative state, polygamy, nativist, birthright citizenship

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'A Considerable Surgical Operation': Article III, Equity, and Judge-Made Law in the Federal Courts

Duke Law Journal, Vol. 60, No. 2, p. 249, November 2010, Boston University School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 11-23
Number of pages: 96 Posted: 04 Jun 2011
Kristin A. Collins
Boston University School of Law
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Judge-made law, federal courts’ equity powers, federal courts, Federal Equity Rules of 1822 and 1842, history of federal equity power, Article III, nineteenth century federal courts, 19th century legal history

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'Petitions Without Number': Widows' Petitions and the Early Nineteenth-Century Origins of Marriage-Based Entitlements

Law & History Review, Vol. 31, No. 1, February 2013, pp. 1-60., Boston Univ. School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 11-27
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 21 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2014
Kristin A. Collins
Boston University School of Law
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entitlements, pensions, marriage-based entitlements, early nineteenth century, femnist legal history, gender, military pensions, widows' pensions, petitions, Congress

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Administering Marriage: Marriage-Based Entitlements, Bureaucracy, and the Legal Construction of the Family

Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 62, No. 4, 2009, Boston Univ. School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 11-25
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 07 Jun 2011
Kristin A. Collins
Boston University School of Law
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legal history, marrige-based entitlements, nineteenth-century federal military pensions, nineteenth-century land grants, women's dependency

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A Short History of Sex and Citizenship: The Historians' Amicus Brief in Flores-Villar v. United States

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 61, p. 1485 (2011), Boston Univ. School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 11-61
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 29 Jun 2014
Kristin A. Collins
Boston University School of Law
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legal history, constitutional law, equal protection, citizenship, immigration, gender and law, Supreme Court, sex equality, amicus, historians, feminist legal history, illegitimacy, children, anti-subordination, unwed fathers, fathers’ rights, parental rights

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Representing Injustice: Justice as an Icon of Woman Suffrage

24 Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 191 (2012), Boston Univ. School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 12-57
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 28 Jun 2014
Kristin A. Collins
Boston University School of Law
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justice, legal history, suffragists, constitutional law, the figure of justice, symbolic tools, social change, aesthetics and the law

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Go West, Young Woman! The Mercer Girls and Legal Historiography

63 Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc 77 (2010), Boston Univ. School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 10-48
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 29 Jun 2014
Kristin A. Collins
Boston University School of Law
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legal history, colonialism, expansion, American west, immigration, settler, women's travel, gender and law, consensus, Willard Hurst, historiography, race, law and society