YJLH 36.6: Festschrift in Honor of the Scholarship of Professor Gordon Wood

On November 22-23 of 2024, Yale Law School hosted a special Conference on the Scholarship of Gordon Wood. The Yale Journal of Law & Humanities has the honor of publishing a festschrift volume of papers presented at this conference. Professor Wood was the leading historian of the US Revolution, and it was an honor to bring his work into dialogue with contemporary legal scholarship. This issue is dedicated to Professor Wood's memory.

The editorial team would like to note that Professor Wood, in addition to being a brilliant scholar and wonderful writer, was an extremely kind person. We were all deeply saddened to learn of his passing. It was our genuine pleasure to have had the chance to work with him in preparation of this special issue.

1. Akhil Reed Amar, The Revolution and the Constitution: Two Grand Narratives

2. Mary Sarah Bilder, The Character of the Constitution: Instrument and Constitution

3. Richard D. Brown, Gordon Wood’s The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992): A Comment

4. Jane E. Calvert, Beyond Whig Constitutionalism: New Perspectives on the Constitutional Debates in Creation of the American Republic

5. John O. McGinnis, Gordon Wood’s Republic of Ideas

6. Johann N. Neem, Gordon Wood’s Anti-Elitism and the Crisis of the History Discipline

7. Jack N. Rakove, Being Schooled with Gordon Wood

8. Jeffrey Rosen, Gordon Wood's Radical Achievement

9. Colleen A. Sheehan, Gordon Wood, James Madison, and American Memory

10. William Michael Treanor, Creation and the Republican Revival

11. Michael Zuckert, Clio, Minerva, and the American Republic

12. Gordon S. Wood, Response