Alison L. LaCroix

University of Chicago Law School

Professor of Law

1111 E. 60th St.

Chicago, IL 60637

United States

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1.

Rhetoric and Reality in Early American Legal History: A Reply to Gordon Wood

U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 356
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 06 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2011
Alison L. LaCroix
University of Chicago Law School
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The New Wheel in the Federal Machine: From Sovereignty to Jurisdiction in the Early Republic

Supreme Court Review, 2007, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 197
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 20 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2009
Alison L. LaCroix
University of Chicago Law School
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federalism, federal courts, federal jurisdiction, Judiciary Act of 1789, Judiciary Act of 1801, Federalist party, concurrent jurisdiction, judicial power

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Federalists, Federalism, and Federal Jurisdiction

Law and History Review, Vol. 30, 2012, University of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 297
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 28 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 08 Nov 2012
Alison L. LaCroix
University of Chicago Law School
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The Interbellum Constitution: Federalism in the Long Founding Moment

Stanford Law Review, Forthcoming, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 420
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 05 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2015
Alison L. LaCroix
University of Chicago Law School
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Temporal Imperialism

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 158, 2010, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 308
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 04 May 2010
Alison L. LaCroix
University of Chicago Law School
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retroactivity, time, temporal effect, judicial review, prospectivity, legislative review

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A Man for All Treasons: Crimes by and Against the Tudor State in the Novels of Hilary Mantel

Martha C. Nussbaum, Richard H. McAdams and Alison L. LaCroix, eds., Fatal Fictions: Crime in Law and Literature, Forthcoming, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 511
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 01 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2015
Alison L. LaCroix
University of Chicago Law School
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Continuity in Secession: The Case of the Confederate Constitution

U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 512
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 01 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2015
Alison L. LaCroix
University of Chicago Law School
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What If Madison Had Won? Imagining a Constitutional World of Legislative Supremacy

Indiana Law Review, Vol. 45, p. 41, 2011, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 411
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 17 Nov 2012
Alison L. LaCroix
University of Chicago Law School
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The Shadow Powers of Article I

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 123, 2014, pp. 2044-2093, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 457
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 19 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2014
Alison L. LaCroix
University of Chicago Law School
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A Singular and Awkward War: The Transatlantic Context of the Hartford Convention

American Nineteenth Century History, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2005
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 02 Aug 2006
Alison L. LaCroix
University of Chicago Law School
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Hartford Convention, War of 1812, Massachusetts, Federalist party, disunion, secession

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The Lawyer's Library in the Early American Republic

Subversion and Sympathy: Gender, Law, and the British Novel in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Martha C. Nussbaum and Alison L. LaCroix, eds., Oxford University Press, 2013, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 408
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 17 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 20 Nov 2012
Alison L. LaCroix
University of Chicago Law School
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Historical Gloss: A Primer

Harvard Law Review Forum, Vol. 126, p. 75, 2012, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 413
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 19 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2013
Alison L. LaCroix
University of Chicago Law School
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To Gain the Whole World and Lose His Own Soul: Nineteenth-Century American Dueling as Public Law and Private Code

Hofstra Law Review, Vol. 33, 2004
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 28 Sep 2006
Alison L. LaCroix
University of Chicago Law School
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dueling, public, private, nineteenth century, honor, reputation

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Bound Fast and Brought Under the Yoke: John Adams and the Regulation of Privacy at the Founding

Fordham Law Review, Vol. 72, p. 2331, 2004
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 25 Sep 2006
Alison L. LaCroix
University of Chicago Law School
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privacy, private, public, John Adams, founding, eighteenth century, legal history, constitutional history

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Eavesdropping on the Vox Populi

Tulsa Law Review, Vol. 99, 2011, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 409
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 17 Nov 2012
Alison L. LaCroix
University of Chicago Law School
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On Being 'Bound Thereby'

Symposium on Rewriting the U.S. Constitution, 27 Constitututional Commentary, 101, 2011, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 410
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 17 Nov 2012
Alison L. LaCroix
University of Chicago Law School
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