• Tony A. Freyer
  University Research Professor
  Ph.D., Indiana University, 1975
  
  tfreyer@law.ua.edu
  
  Fall Office Hours: Wed. 12:30 - 1:45 p.m.; by appointment.

Courses Recently Taught:

• History Colloquium
• Proseminar in US History To 1877
• Special Problems In Constitutional Law
• Alabama Legal History Seminar

Publications:

• Books
  • Forums of Order: the Federal Courts and Business in American History (Greenwich, CT.: JAI Press, 1979).
  • Harmony and Dissonance: The Swift and Erie Cases in American Federalism (New York: New York University Press, 1981).
  • The Little Rock Crisis: A Constitutional Interpretation (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984).
  • Justice Hugo L. Black and the Dilemma of American Liberalism (Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman, 1990).
  • Hugo L. Black and Modern America (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1990).
  • Regulating Big Business: Antitrust in Great Britain and America, 1880-1990 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992).
  • Producers versus Capitalists: Constitutional Conflict in Antebellum America (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1994).
  • Democracy and Judicial Independence: A History of Alabama's Federal Courts (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson, 1995).
  • Antitrust and global capitalism, 1930-2004 (New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006).
  • Little Rock on Trial Cooper v. Aaron and School Desegregation (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2007).
• Selected Articles
  • “Swift and Erie: The Trials of an Ephemeral Landmark Case,” Journal of Supreme Court History 34 (2009): 261-74.
  • “Cooper v. Aaron: Incident and Consequence,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 65 (Spring 2006): 1-6.
  • “Cooper v. Aaron (1958): A Hidden Story of Unanimity and Division,” Journal of Supreme Court History 33 (2008): 89-109.
  • “Politics and Law in the Little Rock Crisis, 1954-1957,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 66 (Summer2007): 145-66.
  • “What was Warren Court Antitrust?,” Supreme Court Review 2009 (2009): 347-95.
  • “Negotiable Instruments and the Federal Courts in Antebellum American Business,” Business History Review 50 (Winter 1976): 435-56.
  • “The Federal Courts, Localism, and the National Economy, 1865-1900,” Business History Review 53 (Autumn 1979): 343-64.
  • “The Little Rock Crisis Reconsidered,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 56 (September 1997): 361-70.
  • “Politics, Market Relations, and the Supreme Court,” Reviews in American History 16 (September 1988): 374-9.
  • “Federal Authority and State Resistance: A Dilemma of American Federalism,” This Constitution: a Bicentennial Chronicle 11 (1986): 11-7.
  • “Localism and Eminent Domain in Early American Economic Development,” Working Papers from the Regional Economic History Research Center 3 (1980): 1-29.

  Biography

  Professor Freyer received an A.B. in 1970 from San Diego State University and an M.A. in 1972 and a Ph.D. in history in 1975 from Indiana University. He taught at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock from 1976 to 1981, when he joined the University of Alabama faculty. In 1985 he became an associate professor of history and law in the history department and in the School of Law; in 1986 he was promoted to professor of history and law and in 1990 was named University Research Professor. In 1992 he received the University's Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award.

  His publications include Forums of Order (1979), Harmony and Dissonance: The Swift and Erie Cases in American Federalism (1981), The Little Rock Crisis (1984), Justice Hugo L. Black and the Dilemma of American Liberalism (1990), Hugo L. Black and Modern America (1990), Regulating Big Business: Antitrust in Great Britain and America, 1880-1990 (1992), Producers versus Capitalists: Constitutional Conflict in Antebellum America (1994), Democracy and Judicial Independence: A History of Alabama's Federal Courts (1995), Little Rock on Trial Cooper v. Aaron and School Desegregation (2007), and some 30 articles in such journals as the Wisconsin Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, World Competition Law and Economic Review, Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law, and Business History Review.

  Professor Freyer was a Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Business School in 1975-76 and a research fellow at the Charles Warren Center at Harvard in 1981-82. He has been a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science (1986) and in Australia (1993). In Spring, 2000 he holds the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland.  He is a member of the editorial boards of the Business History Review, published by the Harvard Business School. He teaches legal history and coordinated the School of Law's Justice Hugo Black Centennial Celebration (1983-86). During 1995-96 he held an Abe Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council to study antitrust in Japan.  His work entitled Little Rock on Trial Cooper v. Aaron and School Desegregation (University Press of Kansas, 2007), received the Arkansas Historical Association's J. R. Ragsdale Award for the Best Book on Arkansas History for 2007. 

  On May 22, 2008 he delivered, with Justice David Souter's introduction, a lecture at the U.S. Supreme Court entitled "Swift v. Tyson: the Trials of An Ephemeral Landmark Case."  In 2008, Pearson Longman published a second, enlarged edition of his book, Justice Hugo L. Black and the Dilemma of Amercian Liberalism.  His book Harmony & Dissonance: The Swift & Erie Cases in American Federalism (New York University Press, 1981) will be honored at a ceremony in New York City on September 20, 2008 commemorating the 70^th Anniversary of Erie Railroad v. Tompkins (1938), sponsored by the Luzerne County Bar Association (PA), the Bar of the City of New York, the New York Bar Association, the American Bar Association, The Pennsylvania Bar Association, and the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple Inn of Court.