Kurt Lash (University of Richmond School of Law) teaches and writes about constitutional law. Founder and director of the Richmond Program on the American Constitution, Professor Lash has published widely on the subjects of constitutional history, theory and law, including The Fourteenth Amendment and the Privileges or Immunities of American Citizenship (Cambridge University Press, 2014), The Lost History of the Ninth Amendment (Oxford University Press, 2009), and The American First Amendment in the Twenty-first Century: Cases and Materials (with William W. Van Alstyne) (5th ed., Foundation Press).
Kurt Lash
Latest from Kurt Lash
Researching and Teaching the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments
A new word-searchable collection of original historical documents creates new opportunities for research and for creating a course on the Reconstruction Amendments.
Framing and Ratifying the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments: "The Reconstruction Amendments: Essential Documents," Vol. 2
The extraordinary drama of framing and adopting the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment involved an extraordinarily diverse group of Americans; black and white, men and women, city and country, north and south, powerful and poor. Volume Two documents their efforts and their voices.
"The Reconstruction Amendments: Essential Documents," Vol. 1: The Antebellum Constitution and The Thirteenth Amendment
The first of two volumes on constitutional reconstruction presents the antebellum struggle to determine whether the Constitution was a pro-slavery or anti-slavery document, the passage of two Thirteenth Amendments, and the end of American chattel slavery. [UPDATE: Sorry, initially inadvertently posted under my name, just corrected to reflect that this is Kurt Lash's post. -EV]
The Reconstruction Amendments: Essential Documents, a Follow-up to The Founders' Constitution
This unprecedented collection presents the original historical documents relating to the framing and ratification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.
