What’s Left of the New Deal State?

Authors

Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal, St. John’s University School of Law

Abstract

A vast body of scholarship situates itself in the New Deal era. Another extensive collection explores the history of criminal justice in the United States. To date, however, there has been little effort to bring these conversations together. New Deal Law and Order, written by legal historian Anthony Gregory, fills this conspicuous gap. Gregory remarkably narrates the New Deal era through the lens of President Franklin Roosevelt’s “war on crime” (p. 1), challenging how we think about both the New Deal’s legacy and the foundations of the modern security state.

Recommended Citation

Sandeep S. Dhaliwal, What’s Left of the New Deal State?, 124 Mich. L. Rev. Online 20 (2025).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr_online/vol124/iss1/2