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Dan Ernst

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Legal historian. Recovering ironist.

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Cheer Up: I pointed my law students to your "Hebrews are appearing in Court" article earlier this semester, so that's something.

23.02.2026 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cheeky!

11.02.2026 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lawyers against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism (Working Class in American History) Lawyers against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism (Working Class in American History) [Ernst, Daniel R.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Lawyers against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism (Working Class in American History)

Kudos for noting the anniversary. With respect, I found the story to be more complicated, in part by the penetration of a national, competitive, and geographically dispersed market (for soft hats) into a local, protected but declining market (for stiff hats). www.amazon.com/Lawyers-agai...

03.02.2026 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Balkinization: In the Shadow of Oliver Wendell Holmes A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

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23.01.2026 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The Loft Presents: Danez Smith "Let America Be America Again"
YouTube video by The Loft Literary Center The Loft Presents: Danez Smith "Let America Be America Again"

In my courses on law and liberal democracy in early twentieth century America, I regularly assign this reading: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6Im...

22.01.2026 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They never prosper.

17.01.2026 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Re you "dissing" Frances Perkins: Frances Perkins to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., April 21, 1959, Schlesinger MSS, JFK Library
On her oral history: β€œI have hardly any recollection of it now, but I know that it was very informal, very indiscreet, and possibly inaccurate in places.”

15.01.2026 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Kind the same ones, just a little later on

12.01.2026 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You hadn’t wrung everything out of it?

24.12.2025 03:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats!

24.12.2025 02:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Stan Kutler told me that Truman used to do this at HST library.

22.12.2025 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

ASLH's "Docket"? But do let me know wherever it appears.

10.12.2025 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Where are those unpublished papers to which Sunstein refers, one wonders

08.12.2025 12:49 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My son once asked why chips and beer were a good treat to have in church. The explanation was more complicated than he was expecting.

07.12.2025 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This strikes me as a fruitful approach to the 250th. Stress the austerity of Founding-Era republicanism at every opportunity and let the contrast speak for itself.

04.12.2025 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Strong agree

22.11.2025 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"Thanks for getting over there this AM to supervise"

27.10.2025 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Here's a coincidence: I'll be quoting from Olmsted, Vaux & Co.'s 1868 prospectus for Riverside in my Property class today.

22.10.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Play today's NYT Daily for them and ask again

29.09.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Heroes?

12.08.2025 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Let me know when you have a post able draft for Legal History Blog

11.08.2025 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Nope. I am.

29.07.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Um, marginalia?

27.07.2025 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As was sometimes sung to each other by siblings in a friend’s family: β€œI’m so glad you got in trouble!”

23.07.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So happy to hear that Mary Kelley was celebrated. Her teaching at Dartmouth a major reason why I’m a historian.

20.07.2025 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

True Grit. That first sentence.

09.07.2025 12:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats, Taisu

25.06.2025 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Brian Regan-You Too and Stuff
YouTube video by OreosRock555 Brian Regan-You Too and Stuff

The standup Brian Regan has a joke about this: m.youtube.com/watch?v=euGL...

05.06.2025 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve assumed but can’t demonstrate that concern about administering the Securities Act of 1933 was the proximate cause of FDR’s decision to dismiss Humphrey. Landis, a drafter of the act, was consulted on the holding of Myers.

22.05.2025 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So glad you shared this good news!

18.05.2025 11:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0