Frank G Colella

April 04, 2022 | New York Law Journal

A Look Back at the Global History of Law Across the Centuries

The stories related in this expansive treatment span from the earliest chiseled tablets that announced "laws" in Mesopotamia to our modern international rules of nations.

By Frank G. Colella

11 minute read

January 20, 2022 | New York Law Journal

A Look Back at the Words That Made Our Constitution

The book is a welcome trip back to revisit the large, and sometimes obscure, cases that populate a first-year law student's Constitutional Law course.

By Frank G. Colella

11 minute read

May 11, 2021 | New York Law Journal

A Look Back at the Global Certainty of Taxation Across the Centuries

There will likely be a tax-related anecdote (or two) that speaks to you directly in Keen and Slemrod's wonderfully comprehensive walk through the annals of taxation.

By Frank G. Colella

9 minute read

January 26, 2021 | New York Law Journal

A Look Back at the Clear and Present Danger of Free Speech During the First World War

Eric T. Chester's "Free Speech and the Suppression of Dissent During World War I," published in 2020, examines the Supreme Court's wartime free speech jurisprudence and Justice Holmes' role in its formulation. Chester also examines how the executive and legislative branches mobilized the country for war and, as an integral part of that preparation, aggressively suppressed any anti-war activism that could have detracted from the war effort.

By Frank G. Colella

9 minute read

August 26, 2019 | New York Law Journal

Looking Back on the Allen Ginsberg Obscenity Trial 62 Years Later

That we can celebrate the victory of 'Howl' over the censors today was by no means a forgone conclusion when the obscenity charges were brought.

By Frank G. Colella

8 minute read

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