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.

Professor Richard Ross was recently a featured guest on the Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness podcast. He and fellow guest Professor Steven Wilf (UConn) discussed the creation of the legal concept of the people with the right to overthrow their government. The podcast is created by the Amerikazentrum research center in Germany, highlighting the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.