Margaret M. Russell

Books

The First Amendment. Freedom of Assembly and Petition: Its Constitutional History and the Contemporary Debate. Prometheus Books (2010)

Chapters

Law and Racial Reelism: Black Women as Celluloid "Legal" Heroines in Feminism, Media, and the Law. Fineman and McCluskey, editors. Oxford University Press (1997)

Rewriting History with Lightning: Race, Myth, and Hollywood in the Legal Pantheon in Legal Reelism: Movies as Legal Texts. Denvir, editor. University of Illinois Press (1996) | Link to Library Catalog

Race and the Dominant Gaze: Narratives of Law and Inequality in Popular Film in Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge. Delgado, editor. Temple University Press (1995) (Originally published as Race and the Dominant Gaze: Narratives of Law and Inequality in Popular Film, 15 Journal of Legal Studies Forum 243-254 (1991)) | Link to Library Catalog

Articles

Reopening the Emmett Till Case: Lessons and Challenges for Critical Race Practice, 73 Fordham Law Review 2101-2132 (2005) | Link to Digital Commons

Cleansing Moments and Retrospective Justice, 101 Michigan Law Review 1225-1268 (2003) | Link to Digital Commons

Foreword: Expanding the Debate on Race, Poverty, Social Justice, and the Law, 1 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 1-9 (2003) | Link to Digital Commons

McLaurin's Seat: The Need for Racial Inclusion in Legal Education, 70 Fordham Law Review 1825-1830 (2002) | Link to Digital Commons

Beyond "Sellouts" and "Race Cards": Black Attorneys and the Straightjacket of Legal Practice, (Symposium: Representing Race), 95 Michigan Law Review 766-794 (1997) | Link to Digital Commons

Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Rights and "The Civil Rights Agenda", 1 African-American Law and Policy Report 33-78 (1994) | Link to Digital Commons

Beginner's Resolve: An Essay on Collaboration, Clinical Innovation, and the First-Year Core Curriculum, 1 Clinical Law Review 135-156 (1994) | Link to Digital Commons

Entering Great America: Reflections on Race and the Convergence of Progressive Legal Theory and Practice, 43 Hastings Law Journal 749-767 (1992) | Link to Digital Commons

Race and the Dominant Gaze: Narratives of Law and Inequality in Popular Film, 15 Legal Studies Forum 243-254 (1991) (Reprinted in Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge (1995)) | Link to Digital Commons

Book Reviews

The Right to Vote, (review of Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy), 33 California Lawyer 32 (May 2013) | Link to Library Catalog

The Roots of Resistance, (review of At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance - a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power), 31 California Lawyer 34 (January 2011) | Link to Library Catalog

On the Frontier of Freedom, (review of Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier), 30 California Lawyer 30 (July 2010) | Link to Library Catalog

How Free is Free?: The Long Death of Jim Crow, 29 California Lawyer 39 (November 2009) | Link to Library Catalog

The Struggle for Justice, (review of On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation), 29 California Lawyer 35-36 (January 2009) | Link to Library Catalog

By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans, 23 Journal of American Ethnic History 115-116 (2003) | Link to Library Catalog | Link to Full Text

Speaking for Herself, (review of An American Story), 18 The Women's Review of Books 11-12 (Jan. 2001) | Link to Library Catalog | Link to Full Text

Fighting Back, (reviews of Black and Blue; Render Up the Body; and the blue place), 15 Women's Review of Books 22-23 (July 1998) | Link to Library Catalog | Link to Library Catalog | Link to Library Catalog | Link to Full Text

Unpacking the Knapsack, (review of Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Undermines America), 14 The Women's Review of Books 15 (April 1997) | Link to Library Catalog | Link to Full Text

A Vanished World, (review of Tumbling), 13 The Women's Review of Books 33 (July 1996) | Link to Library Catalog | Link to Full Text

Retracing the Watershed, (reviews of African American Women Speak out on Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas; and Race, Gender and Power in America: The Legacy of the Hill-Thomas Hearings), 13 The Women's Review of Books 5-6 (March 1996) | Link to Library Catalog | Link to Library Catalog | Link to Full Text

De Jure Revolution?, (reviews of Failed Revolutions: Social Reform and the Limits of Legal Imagination and Crusaders in the Courts: How a Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil Rights Revolution), 93 Michigan Law Review 1173-1195 (1995) | Link to Digital Commons | Link to Library Catalog | Link to Library Catalog

Race Matters: A Plea to Move from Rhetoric to Reality, 1994 Et Al.: The Magazine of Santa Clara University School of Law 32 (Fall 1994) | Link to Library Catalog

"A New Scholarly Song": Race, Storytelling, and the Law, (reviews of Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism; and The Alchemy of Race and Rights), 33 Santa Clara Law Review 1057-1063 (1993) | Link to Digital Commons | Link to Library Catalog | Link to Library Catalog

Other Articles

Justice Delayed: Reopening the Emmett Till Case, 47 Santa Clara Magazine 18-23 (Spring 2006) | Link to Full Text

A Tribute to Professor Herman M. Levy, 45 Santa Clara Law Review 797-805 (2005) | Link to Digital Commons

The Supreme Court on Educational Diversity, 2004 Et Al.: The Magazine of Santa Clara University School of Law 36 (Winter/Spring 2004)

Civil Liberties in the U.S.: Why They Matter in a Post 9/11 World, 7 Explore 11 (Fall 2003)

After Words: Lessons of Liberties and Rights in the Post 9/11 World, 45 Santa Clara Magazine 32 (Fall 2003)

Prime Time Law , 2000 Et Al.: The Magazine of Santa Clara University School of Law 6-11 (Winter/Spring 2000) (Table of Contents lists article as Lawyers in Pop Culture)

Single-Sex Schools: Can We Have Separate but Equal?, 1998 Et Al.: The Magazine of Santa Clara University School of Law 35-36 (Spring/Summer 1998)

Foreword: Law in Living Color, 5 Asian Law Journal 1-6 (1998) | Link to Digital Commons

Confronting the Scars of Centuries, 39 Santa Clara Magazine 19-23 (April 1997)

In the View of This Court, (A Brief Synopsis of Supreme Court Rulings on Affirmative Action Reveals Some Threshhold Principles), 39 Santa Clara Magazine 24-25 (April 1997)

Her Time to Die, 1997 Et Al.: The Magazine of Santa Clara University School of Law 14-17 (Spring/Summer 1997)

Privacy and IVHS: A Diversity of Viewpoints, 11 Santa Clara Computer and High-Technology Law Journal 145-147 (1995) | Link to Digital Commons

Legal Justice, [Commentary], 36 Santa Clara Magazine 47 (Fall 1994)

Quayle's Call: An Overview of the Agenda for Civil Justice Reform, 5 California Litigation 40-44 (Spring 1992) | Link to Library Catalog

Toward Democracy in South Africa, 6 Law Alumni Newsletter (Santa Clara, Calif.) 16-17 (Fall 1991)

Toward Democracy in South Africa, 23 The Advocate Santa Clara Law (Fall 1991)

Other

Benjamin Robbins Curtis, entry in Biographical Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court: The Lives and Legal Philosophies of the Justices. Urofsky, editor. CQ Press (2006) | Link to Library Catalog

Stephen Johnson Field, entry in Biographical Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court: The Lives and Legal Philosophies of the Justices. Urofsky, editor. CQ Press (2006) | Link to Library Catalog

Robert Cooper Grier, entry in Biographical Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court: The Lives and Legal Philosophies of the Justices. Urofsky, editor. CQ Press (2006) | Link to Library Catalog

James Moore Wayne, entry in Biographical Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court: The Lives and Legal Philosophies of the Justices. Urofsky, editor. CQ Press (2006) | Link to Library Catalog

African-American Women and Reproductive Rights, entry in Historical and Multicultural Encyclopedia of Women's Reproductive Rights in the United States. Baer, editor. Greenwood Press (2002) | Link to Library Catalog