BU Faculty Sign Letter Advocating Resistance to Trump Administration
Gerry Leonard is quoted.
April 17, 2025 The Daily Free PressBU Law Celebrates Retiring and Departing Faculty
Professors Daniela Caruso, Kent Coit, David Seipp, and Gary Lawson have made immeasurable contributions during their tenure at BU Law.
Mass. High Court Says Pedestrians Could Challenge Arrests for Racial Bias
Gerald F. Leonard appears on a radio show.
May 18, 2023 WBURA Place for Everyone
Did Assistant Dean Samuel Bennett know, when he welcomed Owen Young into the Class of 1896, that his student would go on to make history? Probably not. It’s hard to know how the future will reflect on the present once it becomes the past.
The Loophole: When an Acquittal Isn’t Really an Acquittal
Gerald Leonard interviewed.
June 15, 2020 Hi-Fi Nation podcastTheory and Practice in the US Criminal System
BU Law students pair externships with doctrine for a broad view of the US criminal system.
A Broken System
The FIRST STEP Act is a move toward criminal justice reform, but BU Law faculty say true change needs to go much further.
The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders’ Constitution
Professor Gerald F. Leonard and distinguished scholars discuss his new book about constitutionalism in the founding era.
How Did the Constitution Become the Basis for Exclusionary Politics?
In a new book, Professor Gerald Leonard, a leading historian of US constitutionalism, explores the “whitening” of democracy in the early 19th century.
Gerald F. Leonard
Gerald Leonard is a leading historian of American constitutionalism. He is the author of two books that helped launch and extend the “constitutional politics,” or “popular constitutionalism,” approach to American constitutional history: The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders’ Constitution, 1780s-1830s (Cambridge University Press, 2019) (with Saul Cornell), and The Invention of Party […]