Richard Chused

Professor of Law

Publications by Professor Chused

Works in Progress:

Gender and Law in American History [With Professor Wendy W. Williams. Under contract with Oxford University Press.]

The Legal Culture of Appropriation Art

 

Completed and Published Work:

      Legal History (Property):

Shock Therapy: Marini v. Ireland, in Paul Tractenburg (ed.), New Jersey Goes A'Courting: Ten Legal Cases that Shook the Nation (Rutgers University Press 2013)[Scheduled for Publication]

The Roots of Jack Spring v. Little, 40 John Marshall L. Rev. 395 (2007).

Impoverished Tenants in Twentieth Century America, in Susan Bright (ed.), Landlord and Tenant Law: Past, Present and Future 257-276 (Hart Pub. 2006).

Javins (a.k.a. Saunders) v. First National Realty Corporation, 11 Geo. J. on Poverty L. & Policy 191-247 (2004). (Lead article in Tenth Anniversary Symposium) [Unabridged version]

Javins (a.k.a. Saunders) v. First National Realty Corporation, in Gerald Korngold & Andrew P. Morriss (eds.), Property Stories 121-168 (Foundation Press 2004) and Property Stories 2^nd Ed. 123-170 (Foundation Press 2009) [Abridged Version]

The Javins Project Web Site: I built this web site as a companion to the Javins (a.k.a. Saunders) article published in Geo. J. on Poverty L. & Policy in 2004. The site contains additional information on the case, copies of all the court documents in the litigation from both the District of Columbia and federal courts, and pictures of the apartment complex involved in the dispute. The site now is maintained by the Georgetown University Law Library, which provided invaluable assistance in gathering many of the documents I used in writing the article. The Javins Project may be found at: http://www.law.georgetown.edu/library/collections/javins/index.cfm.

Euclid’s Historical Imagery, 51 Case Western Reserve L. Rev. 597 (2001)[Lead article in symposium marking the 75th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Euclid v. Ambler.]

Landlord-Tenant Court in New York City at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century, in Willibald Steinmetz (ed.), Private Law and Social Inequality in the Industrial Age: Comparing Legal Cultures in Britain, France, Germany and the United States of America 411-434 (Oxford Univ. Press 2000).

      Legal History (Gender):

Courts and Temperance “Ladies,” Ch. 1 in Tracy A. Thomas & Tracey Jean Boisseau (eds.), Feminist Legal History 33-51 (N.Y.U. Press 2011) [Abridged Version]

Courts and Temperance “Ladies,” 21 Yale J. L. & Feminism 339 (2010)[Unabridged Version]

A Brief History of Gender Law Journals: The Heritage of Myra Bradwell’s Chicago Legal News, 12 Colum. J. Gender & L. 421 (2003).

The Spousal Letters of Samuel R. Thurston (with James Perry & Mary DeLano) 96 Ore. Hist. Q. 4 (1995).

History’s Double Edge: A Comment on Modernization of Marital Status Law, 82 Geo. L. J. 2213 (1994).

Private Acts in Public Places: A Social History of Divorce in the Formative Era of American Family Law (U. Pa. Press 1994).

Gendered Space, 42 U. Fla. L. Rev. 125-161 (1990).

Married Women's Property and Inheritance by Widows in Massachu-setts: A Study of Wills Probated Between 1800 and 1850, 2 Berkeley Women's L. J. 42-88 (1986).

Late Nineteenth Century Married Women's Property Law: Reception of the Early Married Women's Property Acts by Courts and Legislatures, 29 Am. J. Leg. Hist. 3-35 (1985).  [Reprinted in Nancy Cott (Ed.), 3 History of Women in the United States: Historical Articles on Women's Lives and Activities—Domestic Relations and Law 312 (1992)]

The Oregon Donation Act of 1850 and Nineteenth Century Fed­eral Married Women's Property Law, 2 Law & Hist. Rev. 44-78 (1984).

Married Women's Property Law: 1800-1850, 71 Geo. L. J. 1359-1425 (1983).  [Reprinted in Nancy Cott (Ed.), 3 History of Women in the United States: Historical Articles on Women's Lives and Activities--Domestic Relations and Law 312 (1992); K. Hall (Ed.), United States Constitutional and Legal History (1987).]

The Javins Project Web Site: I built this web site as a companion to the Javins (a.k.a. Saunders) article published in Geo. J. on Poverty L. & Policy in 2004. The site contains additional information on the case, copies of all the court documents in the litigation from both the District of Columbia and federal courts, and pictures of the apartment complex involved in the dispute. The site now is maintained by the Georgetown University Law Library, which provided invaluable assistance in gathering many of the documents I used in writing the article. The Javins Project may be found at: http://www.law.georgetown.edu/library/collections/javins/index.cfm. 

      Property and Intellectual Property:

Mt. Laurel: Hindsight is 20-20, 63 Rutgers L. Rev. 813 (2011) [Lead article of symposium in memory of Professor John Payne]

Teacher’s Manual for Cases, Materials and Problems in Property, 3^rd Edition (Matthew Bender/Lexis Publishing Company 2011) [Online Publication]

Cases, Materials and Problems in Property, 3^rd Edition (Matthew Bender/Lexis Publishing Company 2010)

Rewrite Copyright: Protecting Creativity and Social Utility in the Digital Age, 38 Israel L. Rev. 80 (2005).

Teacher's Manual for Cases, Materials and Problems in Property 2^nd Edition (Mathew Bender & Company, Inc. 1999).

Cases, Materials and Problems in Property  2^nd Edition (Matthew Bender & Company, Inc. 1999)

A Copyright Anthology: The Technology Frontier (Anderson Publishing Company 1998)

Family (Proper)ty, 1 Green Bag 2d 125 (1998)

A Property Anthology 2^nd Edition (Anderson Publishing Company, 1997)

Cases, Materials and Problems in Property: 1994 Supplement (Matthew Bender and Company, Inc. 1994)

A Property Anthology (Anderson Publishing Company, Inc. 1993)

Cases, Materials and Problems in Property (Matthew Bender and Company, Inc. 1988).

Teacher's Manual for Cases, Materials and Problems in Property (Mathew Bender & Company, Inc. 1988).

A Modern Approach to Property: Cases, Materials and Notes (Supplement) (West Publishing Co. 1980).

The Current Dilemmas of the Javins Defense: A Note on the Need for Procedural Reform in Landlord Tenant Law, 67 Geo. L. J. 1385-1403 (1979).

A Modern Approach to Property: Cases, Materials and Notes (West Publishing Co. 1978).

      Discrimination:

The Hiring and Retention of Minority and Women Faculty on American Law School Faculties, 137 U. Pa. L. Rev. 537-569 (1988).

Faculty Parenthood: Law School Treatment of Pregnancy and Child Care, 35 J. Legal Ed. 568-596 (1985).

Enforcing Equality in Housing and Employment Through State Civil Rights Laws (1971) (With Professors Askin and Blumrosen).

Enforcing Fair Housing Laws: Apartments in White Suburbia (1970) (With Professors Askin and Blumrosen).

      Criminal Justice and Mental Health:

Faretta and the Personal Defense: The Role of a Represented Defendant in Trial Tactics, 65 Cal. L. Rev. 636-685 (1977).

The Juvenile Court Process: A Study of Three New Jersey Counties, 26 Rutgers L. Rev. 488-615 (1973).

Due Process For All--Constitutional Standards For Involuntary Civil Commitment and Release, 34 U. Chi. L. Rev. 633-660 (1967) [Student Note].

Hans Walter Mattick & Richard H. Chused, The Misdemeanant Offender (Center of Studies in Criminal Justice, University of Chicago Law School, 1967) [Unpublished study for Professional Conference of the Illinois Committee of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, held on April 26, 1967 at the U.S. Court House, Room 2200, Chicago, Illinois]

Book Reviews:

            Numerous reviews in various journals, including Law and History Review, The American Historical Review, The American Journal of Legal History, The Journal of American History, The Canadian Historical Review and The Journal of Women's History.

Reflection:

In Memoriam: Professor Frank Flegal, 81 Geo. L. J. 1691 (1993)

Recent Presentations and Conference Proceedings:

The Shack Case: Derelict of Prophet, presented at the A.A.L.S. Workshop on Poverty, Immigration and Property, San Diego, CA (June 10-12, 2013). [upcoming]

Landlord-Tenant Law in the 1960s and 1970s, presented at the Conference on New York City’s Housing Court at 40: Controversies, Challenges, and Prospects for the Future, Sponsored by the Association of Housing Court Judges, New York University Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, and the New York City Bar Association, at the New York City Bar (March 11, 2013).

Workshop Presentation on the Culture and Law of Appropriation Art, Benjamin Cardozo School of Law (Nov. 13, 2012); Georgetown University Law Center (Oct. 11, 2012); Suffolk Law School (Apr. 13, 2012).

Rights, Obligations and Property Law, Gifford Distinguished Lectureship in Real Property, University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law, Honolulu, HI (Nov. 3, 2011).

Panel Discussant, The Methodology of Feminist Legal History, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women (June, 2011).

Allan Axelrod Visiting Scholar, Rutgers University School of Law, Newark, History of Landlord-Tenant Law in New Jersey (Mar. 2010).

Paper Presenter, The Roots of Jack Spring v. Little at Conference on “What King Wrought?”: The Impact of the Summer of 1966 on Housing Rights, John Marshall Law School (Sep. 2006).

Paper Presenter, Conference on Landlord and Tenant Law: Past, Present and Future, New College in Oxford University, England (2005)

Participant, Workshop on the American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution: Analysis and Recommendations, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (May 20, 2003), http://wwics.si.edu/topics/docs/ALI%20at%20WWIC%20-%20Transcript.pdf (Visited Nov. 6, 2006)

Paper Presenter, Conference on Private Law and Social Inequality in the Industrial Age, German Historical Institute, London, England (1995).