Mass. High Court Says Pedestrians Could Challenge Arrests for Racial Bias
Gerald F. Leonard appears on a radio show.
A Place for Everyone
Did Assistant Dean Samuel Bennett know, when he welcomed Owen Young into the Class of 1896, that his student would go on to make history? Probably not. It’s hard to know how the future will reflect on the present once it becomes the past.
The Loophole: When an Acquittal Isn’t Really an Acquittal
Gerald Leonard interviewed.
Theory and Practice in the US Criminal System
BU Law students pair externships with doctrine for a broad view of the US criminal system.
A Broken System
The FIRST STEP Act is a move toward criminal justice reform, but BU Law faculty say true change needs to go much further.
The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders’ Constitution
Professor Gerald F. Leonard and distinguished scholars discuss his new book about constitutionalism in the founding era.
How Did the Constitution Become the Basis for Exclusionary Politics?
In a new book, Professor Gerald Leonard, a leading historian of US constitutionalism, explores the “whitening” of democracy in the early 19th century.
Gerald F. Leonard
Gerald Leonard is a leading historian of American constitutionalism. He is the author of two books that helped launch and extend the “constitutional politics,” or “popular constitutionalism,” approach to American constitutional history: The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders’ Constitution, 1780s-1830s (Cambridge University Press, 2019) (with Saul Cornell), and The Invention of Party […]