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Professor of Law. A.B. University of Pennsylvania; A.M. Harvard
University; J.D. Columbia University. Phi Beta Kappa; Editor, Columbia Law Review; Law
Clerk to Judge John D. Butzner, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Professor Brophy has written extensively on race and property law in colonial, antebellum and early Twentieth Century America. He was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at Harvard University, where he is completing a dissertation on property and constitutional law in the nineteenth century. Before joining the OCU faculty in 1994 he practiced law with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York. He has also been a visiting professor at Indiana University. Professor Brophy is on the Board of Directors of Oklahoma Indian Legal Services, was counsel to the Oklahoma Legislature's Commission investigating the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot, and is faculty advisor to the Law Review. Professor Brophy teaches in the fields of property, remedies, administrative law and American legal history. His e-mail address is abrophy@law.ua.edu.
The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921:
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Representative Publications:
Let Us Go Back And Stand Upon the Constitution: Federal-State Relations in Dred Scott v. Sandford, 90 COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW 192-225 (January 1990).
"For the Preservation of the King's Peace and Justice": Community and English Law in Sussex County, Pennsylvania, 1682-1696, 40 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY 167-212 (April 1996).
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Click here to see some of my past exams. |
You Might Want To Visit These Sites:
You Might Want To Meet These Legal Historians:
| Mary Sarah Bilder |
| Sally Hadden |
| Daniel Hulsebosch |
| Eben Moglen |
| Polly Price |
| Thomas Russell |
 Alfred Raiford Blount |
Here are several antebellum publications you might enjoy: