Louis Anthes (CBN 263059)
P.O. Box 2313
Long Beach, CA 90803
dr.louis.anthes@gmail.com

Current Employment:
Law Office of Louis Anthes, Long Beach, California (March 2019 - )
- Served hundreds of clients in California (Los Angeles County and Santa Cruz County) both Pro Bono and for-hire.
- Experience with demand letters, residential landlord-tenant negotiations, small claims advising, restraining order hearings, civil litigation hearings and motions.
- Organizing “know-your-rights” events conducted for the general public and preparing written materials for use at such trainings.
- Court Admissions: California State Bar; United States District Court for the Central District of California; United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Major Works: “Lawyers and Immigrants, 1870-1940: A Cultural History” (Leo F. Balk Scholarly Press, 2003), and “Publicly Deliberative Drama: The 1934 Mock Trial of Adolf Hitler for ‘Crimes against Civilization’” (American Journal of Legal History, Oxford University Press, 1998).

Other Works: Several shorter scholarly publications (historical articles for anthologies, book reviews, 1995-2001); Published several works of journalism and adult fiction for L.G.B.T.Q. publications (2003-2007), and one publication regarding cannabis political reform (2015).

In Legal History: Contributed to field by applying social practice theory to empirical historical study of state agents and clients, in the context of European immigration to the United States.

Teaching Emphasis: Materialist approaches to legal practice, taking up constructivist conceptions of rights without abandoning their fundamental value: “talk of rights … represented an idea of the good that was social and community-centered, as much as it was about individuals demanding legal compensation” (Lawyers and Immigrants, p. 149).

Education: St. Joseph High School, South Bend, Indiana (Diploma, 1986); The University of Chicago (A.B., “Politics, Economics, Rhetoric and Law”, 1990); The University of Chicago (A.M., “Social Science,” 1991); New York University (J.D., Review of Law and Social Change, 2000); New York University (Ph.D., “U.S. History,” Adviser William E. Nelson, 2000).

Recent Volunteering: Los Angeles City Attorney, Dispute Resolution Program (2012); Public Counsel, Los Angeles Bankruptcy Clinic (2016); Los Angeles Law Library (2019-2021), Santa Cruz Public Library (2024).

Languages: English and Intermediate French.

Adult U.S. Passport Travel: U.S.S.R. (1986); Western and Southern Europe (1988); Western Europe (1996, 1997); Central Europe (2001); France and Western Europe, (2001-2003); France, India, Philippines (2005); France (2006); Scotland (2017); New Zealand (2023).

Marital Status: Jeremiah T. Malumaleumu, Domestic Partner (2011-2013), Husband (2013- ).