Full-time Faculty

George Dargo

Professor of Law

New England Law | Boston is sad to note the passing of Professor George Dargo on Thursday, January 5, 2012.

A former college history professor, Professor Dargo joined the New England faculty in 1983 and taught Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Freedom of Expression, and Law and Literature. He authored several books, including A History of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 1890–1960 (1993), and focused his research and writing in the areas of legal history and constitutional law. A former law clerk to the Hon. Rya Zobel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, he served on the advisory committee of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Historical Society.

 Selected Publications

From Colony to Empire: Episodes in American Legal History (forthcoming 2011)

Bartleby, the Scrivener: "A House Like Me", 44 New Eng. L. Rev. 819 (2010)

Jefferson's Louisiana: Politics and the Clash of Legal Traditions (2009), (new and revised edition)

The Digest of 1808: Historical Perspectives, 24 Tul. Eur. & Civ. L.F. 1 (2009)

Reclaiming Franz Kafka, Doctor of Jurisprudence, 45 Brandeis L.J. 495 (2007)

Deriving Law from the Biblical Narrative: The Book of Ruth, 40 New Eng. L. Rev. 351 (2006)

The Sarah Roberts Case in Historical Perspective, 3 Mass. Legal Hist.: J. Sup. Jud. Ct. Hist. Soc'y 37 (1997)

Religious Toleration and its Limits in Early America, 16 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 341 (1996)

A History of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Volume 1, 1891-1960 (1993)

Articles on Martin v. Mott, U.S. v. Hylton , and Texas v. Johnson, in Oxford Supreme Court Companion (1993)

The Framework of Government in the British North American Colonies, in Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies (1993)

Jeffersonianism, in Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (1992)

Three Justices: An Oral History, in Annual Report of the Supreme Judicial Court Historical Society. (1991)

Chief Justice Edward F. Hennessey: A Tribute, 24 New Eng. L. Rev. 1 (1990)

Law in the New Republic: Private Law and the Public Estate (1983), Selections from Law in the New Republic are reprinted in Philosophy Then and Now, edited by N. Scott Arnold, Theodore M. Benditt, and George Graham, (1998).

Burr's Conspiracy and the Orleans Territory, in Jefferson's Louisiana (1975), reprinted in Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series (Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 2003)

Jefferson's Louisiana: Politics and the Clash of Legal Traditions (1975)

Roots of the Republic: a New Perspective on Early American Constitutionalism (1974)