David Tanenhaus | William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV

		David Tanenhaus
		James E. Rogers Professor of History and Law


		Phone: 702 895-3549 Email: david.tanenhaus@unlv.edu

		Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

	Education: B.A. honors, Grinnell College, 1990 M.A., University of Chicago, 1991 Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1997

	Professor Tanenhaus is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Grinnell College and earned his Ph.D. with distinction in American history from the University of Chicago in 1997. He joined the History Department at UNLV in 1997, and was a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Newberry Library during 2000-2001. He is a co-editor of A Century of Juvenile Justice (University of Chicago Press, 2002), author of Juvenile Justice in the Making (Oxford University Press, 2004), and the editor of Law and History Review. Professor Tanenhaus teaches American Legal History.

	Areas of Expertise: Juvenile Justice Legal History

	Selected Publications: BOOKS Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (Macmillan Reference USA, forthcoming 2008). Juvenile Justice in the Making (2004). A Century of Juvenile Justice (2002) (ed. with Margaret K. Rosenheim, Franklin E. Zimring, and Bernardine Dohrn). BOOK CHAPTERS Degrees Of Discretion: The First Juvenile Court and the Problem of Difference in the Early Twentieth Century, in Our Children, Their Children: Confronting Race And Ethnic Differences in American Juvenile Justice 105 (Darnell F. Hawkins & Kimberly Kempf-Leonard, eds. 2005). The Evolution of Juvenile Courts in the Early Twentieth Century: Beyond the Myth of Immaculate Construction, in A Century of Juvenile Justice 42 (Maragaret K. Rosenheim, Franklin E. Zimring, David S. Tanenhaus, and Bernardine Dohrn, eds. 2002). The Evolution of Transfer Out of the Juvenile Court, in The Changing Borders Of Juvenile Justice: Transfer Of Adolescents To The Criminal Court 13 (Jeffrey Fagan & Franklin E. Zimring, eds. 2000). ARTICLES Toward A History of Children as Witnesses, 82 Ind. L.J. 1059 (2007) (with William Bush). Between Dependency and Liberty: The Conundrum of Children’s Rights in the Gilded Age, 23 Law & Hist. Rev. 351 (2005). “Owing to the Extreme Youth of the Accused:” The Changing Legal Response to Juvenile Homicide, 92 J. Crim. L. & Criminology, 641 (2002) (with Steven A. Drizin). Growing Up Dependent: Family Preservation in Early Twentieth-Century Chicago, 19 L. & Hist. Rev. 547 (2001) BOOK REVIEWS AND ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES Review Essay, Childhood In History, Literature, And Law: Confronting Authority, Illegitimacy, Myth, And Rights, Journal Of Women’s History (forthcoming). Juvenile Court, With Steven L. Schlosssman, Chicago Companion To The Child (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, forthcoming). Book Review, 38 Journal Interdisc. Hist. 151 (forthcoming) (reviewing Stephen Robertson, Crimes against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880-1960 (2005)). Welfare, History, And The Framing Of Twenty-first-century Social Policy, Review Essay, Social Service Review 74, 474-481 (2000). --> More Publications (pdf)

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