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Article

Publication Date

2026

Abstract

This Q&A explores the benefits of and challenges to translating historical scholarship for a legal audience. MAH editorial board member Sarah A. Seo (NYU Law School) asked historian-experts Laura Edwards (Princeton University), Jennifer Mittelstadt (Rutgers University–New Brunswick), collaborators Samuel Erman (University of Michigan Law School) and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal (University of Southern California), as well as Maggie Blackhawk (NYU Law School) and Ned Blackhawk (Yale University) to reflect on their experiences.

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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.


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