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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My C.V. (updated July 8, 2022)

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Josiah M. Daniel, III Legal Historian • Visiting Scholar, Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin • Retired Partner in ...

My op-ed in the Dallas Morning News, July 1, 2022: "Reform the Electoral Count Act"

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https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2022/07/03/reform-the-electoral-count-act/ Reform the Electoral Count Act by Josiah M. Daniel,...

About Me -- see my C.V.

Josiah Daniel: I am a legal historian whose principal project is the biography of Dallas congressman Hatton W. Sumners (1875-1962), who served 1913-1947 and chaired the House Judiciary Committee from 1930 onward. One chapter focusing on Sumners’s role in the 1937 court-packing crisis was published June 2021 in the John Marshall Law Review, and soon a chapter/article on his primary involvement in bankruptcy legislation of the thirties including Chapter IX (municipal bankruptcy). My second book project is about historic lawyering. Recently I completed a manuscript on the history of the Texas Bar Association, 1882-1940. - During more than 39 years of law practice, I represented all types of parties in cases under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, and in advisory work regarding all aspects of restructuring and insolvency law.

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My C.V. (updated July 8, 2022)

My op-ed in the Dallas Morning News, July 1, 2022: "Reform the Electoral Count Act"

re Alito's "history"

Re bankruptcy trustees . . . you have to be appointed by the court!

T.S. Eliot . . . on history

On the horrific elementary school murders in Uvalde