My co-editor Ken Kersch and I are pleased to announce that
the fifth annual book review issue of the Tulsa Law Review (our second as
co-editors) is now available online and in print. This issue (Volume 50, Issue 2, 2014)
includes twenty-seven reviews of sixty-six books. In keeping with the vision of founding
editors Sandy Levinson and Mark Graber,
our roster of reviewers reflects several disciplines: predominantly law and political science, but
also history, sociology, and women’s and gender studies. The authors of the books reviewed are
similarly diverse in their disciplinary fields and their approaches. The books
themselves cover a wide range of topics, including substantive areas of law,
legal history, and political institutions and actors. It is fitting as we have recently reached the 50th
anniversary of landmark civil rights legislation that several reviews address
books on civil rights, dissent, and social movements. Along those lines, one notable
feature of this issue is that it includes not just one, but two review essays
on Bruce Ackerman’s important new book We
the People, Volume III: The Civil Rights
Revolution, the latest installment in Ackerman’s We the People project. These
reviews start from two quite different perspectives, with the first by
political scientist --and leading social movement scholar -- Sidney Tarrow
(Cornell University), and the second by
law professor – and leading constitutional theorist – James E. Fleming
(Boston University School of Law). We
hope readers will enjoy this issue.