John Fabian Witt
@johnfabianwitt.bsky.social
Duffy Prof @YaleLawSch, legal history. Germantown born and bred. Fisherman, orchardist, baseball. Profile photo sitdowners park in Flint. The Radical Fund is out from Simon & Schuster.
Two biggies: the famous Brown v. Board of Ed (1954) and the lesser-known but huge Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad (1944). Also Moore v. Dempsey, Ossian Sweet, the Scottsboro Nine, Missouri ex rel Gaines, and more . . . .
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Two biggies: the famous Brown v. Board of Ed (1954) and the lesser-known but huge Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad (1944). Also Moore v. Dempsey, Ossian Sweet, the Scottsboro Nine, Missouri ex rel Gaines, and more . . . .
chapter 1 tried to bring an end to periodic Wilson rehabilitation efforts, once and for all. But the professor class loves the most professorial of the founders . . . . 🤷
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Patriots and Cosmopolitans — Harvard University Press
Ranging widely from the founding era to Reconstruction, from the making of the modern state to its post-New Deal limits, John Fabian Witt illuminates the legal and constitutional foundations of Americ...
www.hup.harvard.edu
October 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
chapter 1 tried to bring an end to periodic Wilson rehabilitation efforts, once and for all. But the professor class loves the most professorial of the founders . . . . 🤷
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Wilson is not your guy. A narcissist & a windbag! Philly lawyers rolled their eyes and called him "given to repellant learning." JQA called him "ridiculous." Not to mention his astonishing conflict of interest (and failed opinion) in Chisholm v. Georgia. Find another costume. 😘
October 31, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Wilson is not your guy. A narcissist & a windbag! Philly lawyers rolled their eyes and called him "given to repellant learning." JQA called him "ridiculous." Not to mention his astonishing conflict of interest (and failed opinion) in Chisholm v. Georgia. Find another costume. 😘
Oh wow, I hope you like it!
October 20, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Oh wow, I hope you like it!
Thanks! New Mexico connections—the mother of the donor in my book lived out in Santa Fe and played host to Georgia O’Keefe. The donor’s youngest son lived out there until passing away just a few years ago.
October 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Thanks! New Mexico connections—the mother of the donor in my book lived out in Santa Fe and played host to Georgia O’Keefe. The donor’s youngest son lived out there until passing away just a few years ago.