Fri, 11/15/2019 - 4:00pm Sidney Samuel Thomas Reading Room, Zell B. Miller Learning Center (3rd floor) Join us in celebrating the release of Peter Hoffer's latest book, The Search for Justice: Lawyers in the Civil Rights Revolution, 1950-1975, (U Chicago Press, 2019). Peter Hoffer is a Distinguished Research Professor at UGA. In 2016, the University Press of Kansas released his Rutgers v. Waddington: Alexander Hamilton, The End of the War for Independence, and the Origins of Judicial Review. Later in that year, his co-authored The Federal Courts: An Essential History came out from Oxford University Press. In 2017, his John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835-1850 appeared from the Johns Hopkins University Press. In 2018, his Uncivil Warriors: The Lawyers Civil War, from Oxford; The Clamor of Lawyers: The American Revolution and the Crisis in the Legal Profession, from Cornell; and a new edition of his The Supreme Court: An Essential History appeared. He awaits publication of his Searching for Justice: Lawyers in the Civil Rights Era, 1950-1975, from Chicago, in 2019. Hoffer has won the Choice "Outstanding Academic Title" award four times, in 1991, 1992, 2005, and 2008. This is a free and public event. Refreshments will be served. Research Area: Political & Legal
