Awards

• Nominated for Ellis W. Hawley Prize 2017
• Nominated for James Willard Hurst Prize 2017
• Nominated for John Phillip Reid Book Award 2017
• Nominated for Merle Curti Award 2017

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Susanna Blumenthal s Law and the Modern Mind is an extensive and exquisitely detailed journey through a long overlooked corner of nineteenth-century jurisprudence in America. It is based on years of reading across an impressive array of ornate and largely arcane texts. The author s capacity to render it into coherent analysis is even more impressive.--Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Susanna L. Blumenthal s book is a thoughtful study of American law s confrontation with insanity during the 19th century <i>Law and the Modern Mind</i> traces variations of the insanity theme as it plays out in each legal field. Though the book is by no means a technical lawyers manual, Blumenthal is a sure-footed guide through this doctrinal thicket; just as importantly, she narrates gripping human stories from the era s legal treatises, as well as those that unravel with greater vividness in court proceedings.--Meir Dan-Cohen Los Angeles Review of Books (11/06/2016)

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Susanna L. Blumenthal is Julius E. Davis Professor of Law and Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, where she is Co-Director of the Program in Law and History.

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