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[We have the following announcement.] Research Fellowship in the field of European Administrative History "JEV-Fellowship for Europe...

Back in 2015, John W. Cairns, University of Edinburgh, published Codification, Transplants and History: Law Reform in Louisiana (1808) an...

Andrew T. Fede , a partner of Archer & Greiner, P.C. and the author of two other legal histories of clavery , has published Homicide Jus...

Mary L. Dudziak, Emory University School of Law , has posted Death and the War Power : In the vast literature on American war powers, atte...

We have word that Mario Cajas-Sarria , Associate Professor and Director of the Law School of Icesi University, Cali, Colombia has publishe...

We are sharing the sad news that  John Maurice Beattie , legal historian of crime in 18th-century  Britain, has died of cancer at the age o...

That’s the theme for this week’s morning lectures at the Chautauqua Institution.  This morning’s speaker was Linda Greenhouse , to be follow...

Kevin Arlyck has published The Courts and Foreign Affairs at the Founding in the BYU Law Review 2017: 1-65.  From the introduction: In...

Christopher J. Robinette, Widener University Commonwealth Law Schoo l, and Kyle Graham , have posted The Prosser Letters: Scholar as Dean , ...

Writing for JOTWELL's Courts Law Section, Alexandra D. Lahav (University of Connecticut) has posted an admiring review of Amalia Kessle...

Public Books carries a review  of Ibram X. Kendi's "refreshing" and "courageous"  Stamped from the Beginning: The D...

Have you registered for ASLH 2017 ?  We have. From the Washington Post 's "Made by History" section: Noah Shusterman (C...

Markus D. Dubber, University of Toronto , has Criminal Process in the Dual Penal State: A Comparative-Historical Analysis , which appears in...

We received an advance alert on the publication of  "His Barbarous Usages", Her "Evil Tongue": Character and Class in Tr...

Markus D. Dubber, University of Toronto , has posted Legal History As Legal Scholarship: Doctrinalism, Interdisciplinarity, and Critical Ana...

Joshua Getzler , Oxford University , will speak on Leading Cases, Hermeneutics, and the Politics of Legal History at the Australian Nationa...

In a recent Weekend Roundup , we noted the New York Times op-ed on the Emoluments Clause by Joshua Blackma n and Seth Barrett Tillman (as w...

Imogen Goold, St Anne’s College Oxford has published Flesh and Blood: Owning our Bodies and Their Parts with Hart Publishing. The book is...

James Madison ( LC ) Jud Campbell, University of Richmond School of Law , has posted Judicial Review and the Enumeration of Rights , w...

Kellen R. Funk, ABD, Princeton University , and Lincoln A. Mullen , Department of History and Art History, George Mason University , have po...

New from Oxford University Press: Avenging the People: Andrew Jackson, the Rule of Law, and the American Nation , by J. M. Opal (McGill Uni...

Just out with Cambridge University Press is Tax Law and Social Norms in Mandatory Palestine and Israel by Assaf Likhovski , Tel Aviv Univ...

New from the Studies in Legal History Series at Cambridge University Press: Taming the Past: Essays on Law in History and History in Law , ...

Legal historians, you may be stuck behind a newspaper (or twitter.com) this summer, but if you’re not satisfied with the history of the ...

James O'Fallon , formerly a law professor at the University of Oregon , has died.  His publications include Nature’s Justice: Writing o...

The Edinburgh Legal History Blog published John W. Cairns ’s laureation address upon the occasion of the University of Edinburgh ’s confer...

We have one more newly paperbacked volume for you in Hart's   Landmark Cases   series: University College London 's Charles Mitchel...

We were recently received the following announcement from Anxieties of Democracy, a project of Social Science Research Council : The Negot...

SLR Online , the digital sidekick of the Stanford Law Review , has a five-star book review symposium on the Stanford Law School's Amalia...

Gregory Ablavsky, Stanford Law School , has posted The Rise of Federal Title , which is forthcoming in the California Law Review : Why did...

Here’s another volume in Hart’s Landmark Cases series that is now out in paperback: Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract , edited by Ch...

James R. Alexander, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown , has posted Libel and Copyright in the Satire of Peter Pindar : In 1802, the ...

New from Temple University Press: Gross Misbehavior and Wickedness: A Notorious Divorce in Early Twentieth-Century America (June 2017), by ...

Another volume in the   Landmark Cases   by Hart Publishing came out in paperback in 2016. We didn't post on the hardback version whe...

The Guardian carries a review of Ibram X. Kendi's "brilliant and disturbing"  Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive Hist...