The Blog of Josiah M. Daniel, III

On this blog I will post some of my publications and writings together with occasional comments on topics of legal history and, to a lesser extent, current events.

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To my Texan friends: This trenchant analysis by a property-tax lawyer I respect, John Brusniak, confirms that the proposed Texas Constitutio...

A lesson from David McCullough's posthumous book of essays

Finished reading this just-published book of essays: David McCullough, History Matters (Simon & Shuster, 2025). Among many releva...

About footnotes in law-review literature

The topic again is FOOTNOTES, one of the best means of protecting against false information and fabricated history. Today and tomorrow ...

In praise of footnotes

Footnotes are, here in the third decade of 21st century, generally disfavored. But for something like 150 years now, footnotes have played a...

A small point in the deep legislative history of municipal bankruptcy law

I am finalizing my article on the history of the genesis of municipal bankruptcy law, and I realized the following point is not significant...

Hurrah for the Alliance for Texas History

I attended the first annual conference of the new organization for those who are serious about Texas history, the Alliance for Texas History...

About my new paper, "The Historiographical Problem of Municipal Bankruptcy Law" -- Part Four

Here is the heart of it, at pages 6-7 sans footnotes: "Applied to municipalities, the L&E scholars argue that bankruptcy ...

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