Alison LaCroix Discusses America’s Forgotten Constitutional Era

The Interbellum Constitution

Spotify episode description: In this episode, I sit down with Alison LaCroix, the Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, to discuss her recent book: The Interbellum Constitution (2024). It looks at the period between the end of the War of 1812 and the Civil War and tells a very different story about Constitutional meaning and change. One that brings in different characters and gives us a new way to understand the role between history and law.

 

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