The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms

Alison LaCroix is the Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. She is also an Associate Member of the University of Chicago Department of History. She is a scholar of US legal history specializing in constitutional law, federalism, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century legal thought.

Professor LaCroix is the author of The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms, which was published May 28, 2024, by Yale University Press. Professor LaCroix is also the author of The Ideological Origins of American Federalism (Harvard University Press, 2010).