John Henry Schlegel UB DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR F L OY D H . A N D H I L D A L . H U R S T F A C U LT Y S C H O L A R JD, University of Chicago Law School BA, Northwestern University
(716) 645-2746
schlegel@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
CHAPTERS
AMERICAN LEGAL REALISM
Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld: On the
LEGAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY
Difficulty of Becoming a Law Professor,
CORPORATE FINANCE
Edited Work, Select Personal
ECONOMIC REDEVELOPMENT OF RUST BELT CITIES
I continue to work on a book
Papers, and Original Commentaries
about law and economy in the
(Shyam Balganesh, Ted Sichelman
1950s. What fascinates about
BOOKS
& Henry Smith, eds., Cambridge
this now long-passed time is
While Waiting for Rain:
University Press, forthcoming 2022).
that its understanding of what
Community, Economy and Law in
Sez Who?: Critical Legal History
makes up a ‘good economy’ is so
a Time of Change (University of
without a Privileged Position, in The
Michigan Press, forthcoming 2022).
Oxford Handbook of Historical
in Wesley Hohfeld A Century Later:
unlike our own, and yet, that lost understanding structures so much of the debate about
Legal Research 561 (Chris
the economy ever since. Such
ARTICLES
Tomlins & Markus Dubber, eds.,
If the Music Hadn’t Stopped, or
Oxford University Press, 2018).
nostalgia for an unrecoverable
BOOK REVIEWS
may be a theme here. Most of my
Reflections on the Great Kerfuffle: Historicism’s Continuing Grasp for Truth, 31 Yale Journal of Law and Humanities 276 (2021). Saying Thanks with Some Self-Reflection, 69 Buffalo Law Review 201 (2021). To Dress for Dinner: Teaching Law in a Bureaucratic Age, 66 Buffalo Law Review 435 (2018).
past is pathological, but there
Book Review, Law & History
earlier work is directed toward
Review 615 (2021) (reviewing Susan
recovering pasts that have been
Bartie, Free Hands, Free Minds:
pathologically distorted in our
Pioneering Australian Legal
presents. And I’ve begun to
Scholars (Hart Publishing, 2019)).
return to another such topic –
Book Review, 84 Modern Law Review
American Legal Realism.”
946 (2021) (reviewing Bruce A. Kimball & Daniel Coquillette, Intellectual Sword: Harvard Law School: The Second Century (Belknap Press, 2020)).
A Seriously Fun Look at Law and Society A recent issue of the Buffalo Law Review (vol. 69, 2021) devotes itself to the teaching, scholarship and unique personality of UB School of Law’s longest-serving active faculty member, John Henry Schlegel. “Serious Fun – A conference with & around Schlegel” collects nine original essays by colleagues and interlocutors of the UB Distinguished Professor, a foreword, and a closing reflection by Schlegel himself. Schlegel joined the UB Law faculty in 1973. His scholarship has had significant influence on the way we view two critical moments in the U.S. legal academy – American Legal Realism and Critical Legal Studies. Generations of UB Law students have experienced his broadly informed yet intensely personal engagement with how law works in our society and have come away challenged to look in new ways at the law and its practice.
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