Daniel Platt is a scholar of law, political economy, and political culture. Raised in the Chicago area, he earned his PhD in American Studies at Brown University in 2018 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University at Buffalo School of Law before joining the faculty at UIS in 2020. His first book, The Price of Misfortune (2023), examined struggles over debtors' rights in the late nineteenth century. His current research deals with religion and the prison abolition movement in the late twentieth century.
Books
The Price of Misfortune: Rights and Wrongs in Indebted America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023).
Articles
“The Domestication of Credit,” History of the Present 9 (Fall 2019): 142-165.
“The Natures of Capital: Jewish Difference and the Decline of American Usury Law, 1910-1925,” Journal of American History 104 (March 2018): 863-878.
“An Icon Adrift: The Modern Library in the 1990s,” Book History 15 (2012): 183-208.
LES 202 Introduction to the American Legal System
LES 422 Religion and Politics
LES 451 Law, Film, and Popular Culture
LES 456 Capitalism and the Law
LES 463 Labor Law
LES 502 Introduction to Graduate Legal Studies
LES 512 Theories of Justice