Publications

Author/Title Research Type Related Fields
Michael McCann, “Law and Social Movements: Old Themes and New Directions for Research.” Forthcoming in edited book on The Uses of Law by Social Movements, Julie Ringelheim, ed. 2020 Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Activism, Civil Rights, Class, Comparative Law, Justice, Litigation, Social Welfare, West European
“How States Justify Internment: The Case of Northern Ireland.” Sarah Dreier, Emily Gade, and Michael McCann. Funded by NSF grant. Planned submission to Law & Society Review, summer 2020. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Activism, Civil Rights, Comparative Law, Crime and Criminality, Critical Theory, Incarceration, Justice, Punishment
Michael McCann, “A. Philip Randolph: Radicalizing Rights at the Intersection of Race and Class,” in Melvin L. Rogers and Chip Turner, eds., African American Political Thought: A Collected History. Forthcoming, University of Chicago Press. 2020. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Activism, African American, Civil Rights, Class, Human Rights, Justice, Labor, Race and Ethnicity
Michael McCann, with George I. Lovell. Union by Law: Filipino American Labor Activists, Rights Radicalism, and Racial Capitalism. With George Lovell. University of Chicago Press. 512 pp. In cloth and paper, April, 2020.  Publications, Books Activism, Civil Rights, Class, Critical Theory, Human Rights, Labor, Political Economy, Race and Ethnicity
Michael McCann, “Listening for the Songs of Others: Insiders, Outsiders, and the Legal Marginalization of the Laboring Underclass in America.” In Mary Nell Trautner, ed., Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, & Law: Revisiting "The Oven Bird’s Song." New York: Cambridge University Press. 2018 Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Access and Inclusion, American, Civil Rights, Class, Culture, Labor, Law, Race and Ethnicity
Angelina Godoy. 2015. "God Alone Was With Us: the Santa Cruz Massacre", UW Center for Human Rights, (also published in Spanish as Solo Dios Con Nosotros: La Masacre de Santa Cruz).  Publications, Reports Civil Rights, Human Rights, Latino/a Studies
Michael McCann. 2014. "The Personal is Political: On Twentieth Century Activist Lawyers for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties." Tulsa Law Review Vol 49, Number 2. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Civil Rights, Law
Michael McCann. 2014. "Money, Sex, and Power: Gender Discrimination and the Thwarted Legacy of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.”  Keynote Address for Symposium, “Revisiting Sex: Gender and Sex Discrimination Fifty Years after the Civil Rights Act."  University of Denver Law Review Vol 91 (4):779-802. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Civil Rights, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
George Lovell. 2012. “The Myth of the Myth of Rights.” Studies in Law, Politics and Society 59 (1-30). Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Civil Rights, Human Rights, Law, Social Justice
George I. Lovell. 2012. This is Not Civil Rights: Discovering Rights Talk in 1939 America. University of Chicago Press. Publications, Books Civil Rights, Law, Social Justice
Jamie Mayerfeld. 2011.“The High Price of American Exceptionalism: Comparing Torture by the United States and Europe after 9/11.” In Michael Goodhart and Anja Mihr, eds., Human Rights in the 21st  Century: Continuity and Change since 9/11, Palgrave/Macmillan, pp. 107-30.    Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Civil Rights, Human Rights, Law, Sociology, West European
Carolyn Pinedo Turnovsky. 2006. “A la parada: the Social Practices of Men on a Street Corner”. Social Text, Vol.24, No. 88, Fall 2006. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Civil Rights, Ethnography, Immigration, Labor, Latino/a Studies, Poverty, Race and Ethnicity
Michael McCann. 2004. Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis. University of Chicago Press. [with William Haltom] Publications, Books Civil Rights, Law, Litigation, Political Science, Popular Culture