Deconstructing the Foundational Mythologies of American Legal Empire

R.W. Kostal, Laying Down the Law: The American Legal Revolutions in Occupied Germany and Japan (2019).

Jedidiah Kroncke

The intertwining of American foreign policy and American law has been a renewed topic of historical interest in recent years, with specific focus placed on the United States’ emergence as a global power at the turn of the 20th century. Rande Kostal’s Laying Down the Law dives deeply into perhaps the two most enduring symbolic episodes that came to shape popular and elite […]