Alfred S. Konefsky

Konefsky, Alfred S.

UB Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Research Focus: American Legal and Constitutional History

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Biography Publications

Books

THE PAPERS OF DANIEL WEBSTER: LEGAL PAPERS (with Andrew J. King, eds.) (1982) vol. 1

THE PAPERS OF DANIEL WEBSTER: LEGAL PAPERS (with Andrew J. King, eds.) (1982) vol. 2

Journal Articles

John Henry Schlegel and The Muppet Show, BUFFALO LAW REVIEW vol. 69: 101 (2021)

In This, the Winter of Our Discontent: Legal Practice, Legal Education, and the Culture of Distrust (with Barry Sullivan) BUFFALO LAW REVIEW vol. 62 (2014)
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Justice Jackson's 1946 Nuremberg Reflections at Buffalo: An Introduction (with Tara J. Melish) BUFFALO LAW REVIEW  vol. 60: 255 (2012)
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Piety and Profession: Simon Greenleaf and the Case of the Stillborn Bowdoin Law School, 1850–1861, NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY vol. 85(4): 695 (2012)
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Jack Hyman, Student, BUFFALO LAW REVIEW  vol. 57:  1155 (2009)

James B. Atleson and the World of Labor Law Scholarship, BUFFALO LAW REVIEW  vol. 57:  629 (2009)

The Accidental Legal Historian: Herman Melville and the History of American Law, BUFFALO LAW REVIEW  vol. 52:  1179 (2004)

The Voice of Willard Hurst, LAW & HISTORY REVIEW vol. 18:  147 (2000)

Freedom and Interdependence in 20th Century Contract Law: Traynor and hand and Promissory Estoppel, UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI LAW REVIEW vol. 65:  1169 (1997)

The Daughters of Job: Property Rights and Women's Lives in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts (with Dianne Avery) LAW & HISTORY REVIEW vol. 10:  323 (1992)

Law Students with Disabilities: Removing Barriers in the Law School Community (with David Engel), BUFFALO LAW REVIEW   vol. 38:  551 (1990)

The Marshall Court and the Writing of Law and History, VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW vol. 66:  160 (1990)

"As Best to Subserve Their Own Interests": Lemuel Shaw, Labor Conspiracy, and Fellow Servants, LAW & HISTORY REVIEW vol. 7:  219 (1989)

How to Read, or at Least Not Misread, Cardozo in the Allegheny College Case, BUFFALO LAW REVIEW   vol. 36:  645  (1988)

Law and Culture in Antebellum Boston, STANFORD LAW REVIEW vol. 40:  1119 (1988)

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Histories of American Law Schools, HARVARD LAW REVIEW vol. 95:  833 (1982)

Men of Great and Little Faith: Generations of Constitutional Scholars, BUFFALO LAW REVIEW vol. 30:  365 (1981)

On the Early History of Lower Federal Courts, Judges and the Rule of Law, MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW vol. 79:  645 (1981)

Lawyers' Papers as a Source of Legal History: The 19th Century, LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL vol. 69:  307 (1976)

Book Chapters

Karl’s Law School, or the Oven Bird in Buffaloin INSIDERS, OUTSIDERS, INJURIES AND LAW IN THE 21ST CENTURY: REVISITING “THE OVEN BIRD’S SONG (Mary Nell Trautner ed., Cambridge University Press 2018) (56-68)

Simon Greenleaf, Boston Elites, and the Social Meaning and Construction of the Charles River Bridge Case, TRANSFORMATIONS IN AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF MORTON J. HORWITZ, vol. 2 (Harvard University Press:   2010) (165-195)

Lemuel Shaw, THE YALE BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN LAW (Yale University Press:  2009)

The Legal Profession: From the Revolution to the Civil War, THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LAW IN AMERICA vol. 2 (Cambridge University Press:   2008) (68-105, 708-715)

The Dartmouth College Case, THE OXFORD COMPANION TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (1992)

Book Reviews

LAW AND HISTORY REVIEW vol. 17: 187-191 (1999) (reviewing William Novak, THE PEOPLE'S WELFARE: LAW AND REGULATION IN 19TH CENTURY AMERICA (1996))