Sara Mayeux
Biographic Data
| ID | 5201455 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Mayeux |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Mayeux |
| SIGNATURE | MAYEUX S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Defender
“Lawyers are a notoriously difficult bunch to study,” the legal historian Lawrence Friedman has observed. “They do not like to be examined too closely. They also insist that everything they do for their clients is confidential. They have a point, of course; but this also provides much useful cover.”1 Friedman’s observations ring doubly true of public defenders, who provide legal representation for indigent criminal defendants. Their archives are …
“Make All the Laws You Want”
How has American Catholicism interacted with American legal culture? Legal scholars have often examined this question in the context of contraception and abortion debates. This article focuses instead on the so-called Catholic left that emerged in protest against the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, and thereby seeks to bring the rich history of Catholic radicalism and peace activism into closer conversation with legal history. Drawing on both prim…
An Honest But Fearless Fighter”
Early one Sunday in 1948, Frederic Vercoe set out from his home in San Marino, California, for a speaking engagement in downtown Los Angeles. Perhaps he took the Arroyo Seco Parkway, which had opened for drivers 8 years before, linking the city more tightly with its “vast agglomerate of suburbs.” Although the roads may have changed, Vercoe had been making some version of this commute for decades. He had recently retired after a long career with t…
Federalism Anew
One of the most remarked-upon events of the recent past is the August 2014 death of a black teenager, Michael Brown, at the hands of a white police officer, Darren Wilson, in Ferguson, Missouri. Attention initially focused on individual actions and local circumstances, but quickly expanded to a broader set of injustices. Brown died just days before he was scheduled to start college, a significant accomplishment in his local context. His school di…
Federalism Anew
One of the most remarked-upon events of the recent past is the August 2014 death of a black teenager, Michael Brown, at the hands of a white police officer, Darren Wilson, in Ferguson, Missouri. Attention initially focused on individual actions and local circumstances, but quickly expanded to a broader set of injustices. Brown died just days before he was scheduled to start college, a significant accomplishment in his local context. His school di…
Federalism Anew
One of the most remarked-upon events of the recent past is the August 2014 death of a black teenager, Michael Brown, at the hands of a white police officer, Darren Wilson, in Ferguson, Missouri. Attention initially focused on individual actions and local circumstances, but quickly expanded to a broader set of injustices. Brown died just days before he was scheduled to start college, a significant accomplishment in his local context. His school di…
An Honest But Fearless Fighter”
Early one Sunday in 1948, Frederic Vercoe set out from his home in San Marino, California, for a speaking engagement in downtown Los Angeles. Perhaps he took the Arroyo Seco Parkway, which had opened for drivers 8 years before, linking the city more tightly with its “vast agglomerate of suburbs.” Although the roads may have changed, Vercoe had been making some version of this commute for decades. He had recently retired after a long career with t…
The Defender
“Lawyers are a notoriously difficult bunch to study,” the legal historian Lawrence Friedman has observed. “They do not like to be examined too closely. They also insist that everything they do for their clients is confidential. They have a point, of course; but this also provides much useful cover.”1 Friedman’s observations ring doubly true of public defenders, who provide legal representation for indigent criminal defendants. Their archives are …
“Make All the Laws You Want”
How has American Catholicism interacted with American legal culture? Legal scholars have often examined this question in the context of contraception and abortion debates. This article focuses instead on the so-called Catholic left that emerged in protest against the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, and thereby seeks to bring the rich history of Catholic radicalism and peace activism into closer conversation with legal history. Drawing on both prim…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Alienation (1 work) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · American History and Culture (1 work) · American Political and Social Dynamics (1 work)