Professor Richard Ross recently published an essay about how the Patriots’ use of law facilitated political mobilization for the American Revolution. The essay, “Legal Orders,” was co-authored with Steven Wilf, and appears in Cambridge History of the American Revolution, Volume 1: Revolutionary Contexts, ed. Marjoleine Kars, Michael A. McDonnell, and Andrew M. Schocket (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2026), I, 513-33.
