Victoria Saker Woeste
Research Professor
Joint appointment
staff@abfn.org
Education
Ph.D., Jurisprudence & Social Policy, University of California, Berkeley
B.A., History and American Studies, University of Virginia (cum laude)
Curriculum vitae
Bio
Victoria Saker Woeste was educated at the University of Virginia (B.A.) and the University of California at Berkeley (M.A., Ph.D.), where she trained as an interdisciplinary academic in law and…
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Research focus
Understanding how law mediates and shapes the relationships among the state, the market, and society in U.S. history; uncovering institutional and organizational responses to legal and economic change. Recent scholarship has investigated the relationship of Henry Ford's antisemitism to the law of group libel, American racial politics, and 1920s political economy. Future projects include a biography of Louis Marshall, constitutional lawyer and Jewish civil rights advocate (1856-1929), and further study of the legal history of American agriculture in the second half of the twentieth century.
Projects
- Speech and Civil Rights in the Post World War II Era
- Latest finding: Mar 8, 2013
- This project explores the relationship between hate speech regulation, school desegregation, and public housing desegregation laws in Midwestern U.S. cities after 1945.
- Suing Henry Ford: America's First Hate Speech Case
- Latest finding: Oct 19, 2012
- This project examines a well-known event in the life of Henry Ford -- a 1927 federal libel lawsuit against him and his antisemitic newspaper -- from the perspective of the people who sought to stop…
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Publications
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Henry Ford's War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech
- Stanford University Press
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“Lawrence Friedman and the Bane of Functionalism”
- Cambridge University Press
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“Louis Marshall”
- Yale University Press
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Commentary
May 8, 2009
At a local (Lafayette, Indiana) town hall meeting in April, I had the chance to ask Senator Obama about his philosophy on Supreme Court appointments--what he would look for, what sort of values,…
Jan 20, 2009
Local news coverage of an Inaugural viewing party showcased my discussion of President Obama's use of historical allusions in his speech, which has already drawn some lackluster reviews:
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Presentations
- Henry Ford’s War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech
- Oct 2012
- Henry Ford: Unmasking the Self-Made Myth
- Dec 2009
- The Turn from Law: Louis Marshall, the Lynching of Leo Frank, and the Jewish Civil Rights Movement, 1910-1945
- May 2009
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Professional Service & Recognition
- Consultant, The People v. Leo Frank, documentary film, Ben Loeterman Productions for Frontline, PBS, and the National Endowment for the Humanities (2009)
- Wayne D. Rasmussen Award Committee, Agricultural History Society, 2010-12
- Nominee, Board of Trustees, American Society for Legal History, 2009
- Founder and Co-Chair, Chicago Legal History Seminar
- Consultant, Court History Association, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois
- Chair, Surrency Article Prize Committee, American Society for Legal History
- Precinct Captain, Obama for America, West Lafayette, Indiana
- Member, Board of Directors, American Society for Legal History, 2010-2012
- Member, Cromwell Prize Committee, American Society for Legal History, 2010-2012
- Chair, J. Willard Hurst Book Prize Committee, Law and Society Association
- Manuscript reviewer, Agricultural History, Enterprise and Society, Law and Social Inquiry, 2012
- Associate Editor, Law and Social Inquiry
- Principal Academic Advisor, Sapiro v. Ford, documentary film based on Henry Ford’s War, Michael Rose Productions Inc., Federal Court Historical Society and Detroit Public Television, 2012-13
Reading list
- It Is Our Choices That Make Us What We Truly Are: Moral Choice in the Harry Potter Novels
- Victoria Saker Woeste
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