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