Josiah M. Daniel, III

I am a Retired Partner in Residence of Vinson & Elkins LLP in the Dallas office, and I am a Visiting Scholar of the History Department of The University of Texas at Austin. (My biography is here: http://blog-josiahmdaniel3.blogspot.com/2018/03/cv.html.)

My principal project today is to write the first full biography of Hatton W. Sumners, Congressman from Dallas for 17 terms and Chair of the House Judiciary Committee from 1931-1947. Portions of chapters are now in print. See Josiah M. Daniel, III, “What I Said Was ‘Here Is Where I Cash In’”: the Instrumental Role of Congressman Hatton Sumners in the Resolution of the 1937 Court-Packing Crisis, 54 UIC John Marshall Law Rev. 379 (2021), available here: https://repository.law.uic.edu/lawreview/vol54/iss2/1/; id., Congressman Hatton W. Sumners's 1928 Amendment to the Electoral Count Act, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4086905 (2022).

Forthcoming articles are:

--Cooptation of the Carmack Amendment by the Railroads, 1906-1917: A Study in Associational Lawyering, forthcoming in Northern Kentucky Law Review (2023); and

--"The MoUS[e] that Roared": The Manual of Usage and Style (Published by Texas Law Review) After a Half Century, forthcoming in Green Bag 2d (2022)

My other publications are listed in my C.V.:  blog-josiahmdaniel3.blogspot.com/2018/03/cv.html

Current working papers are:

--The Genesis of Municipal Bankruptcy:  Congressman Hatton Sumners and the Creation of Chapter IX of the Bankruptcy Act, 1934-1938; and

--“Our Very Useful and Honorable Profession”: The Texas Bar Association’s Uneven Pathway toward Professionalization of Texas Lawyers, 1882-1940