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From the University of Michigan Program in Race, Law, and History, we have the following event announcement: Race, Law,...

Here, via H-Law , are the articles in the Journal of Supreme Court History , 39:1: A Better Story...

Every so often, the Chronicle of Higher Education spotlights "New Books on Higher Education." Here are some items of interest fro...

Rohit De, Department of History, Princeton University , is a co-recipient of the Law and Society Ass...

Former Guest Blogger Nick Parrillo, Yale Law School , has received the J. Willard Hurst Award of t...

Via JOTWELL (which regularly alerts us to terrific legal history scholarship) we have the following call for proposals : Legal Scholars...

At 5:30 today Boston College’s Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy is sponsori...

Katie R. Eyer (Rutgers School of Law - Camden) has posted " Lessons From Sex and Illegitimacy ," which is forthcoming in the UC D...

From Privacy to Publicity: The Tort of Appropriation in the Age of Mass Consumption , by Samantha Barbas, SUNY Buffalo Law School, is out i...

New from the University of Michigan Press: Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings in the U.S. Senate: Reconsidering the Charade (March 2014), ...

Continuing with works published this year to mark the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act,  The Washington Post   reviews Todd S. Purd...

From the Junto: " Is Blogging Scholarship? Reflections on the OAH Panel ." Congratulations to Roman Hoyos, Southwestern Law Sc...

Richard A. Danner, Duke University School of Law , has posted Influences of the Digest Classification System: What Can We Know? , which also...

We don’t review books here at Legal History Blog, but we also don’t complain when publishers send us...

Talbot Publishing has announced the publication of The Origins of Western Law from Athens to the Cod...

New from Palgrave Macmillan: Pathways to the Supreme Court: From the Arena to the Monastery (Dec. 2013), by Garrison Nelson (University of V...

Another announcement from our friends at the Canadian Legal History Blog: The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History invites nominati...

Via the Canadian Legal History Blog, we have the following fellowship announcement : The R. Roy McMurtry Fellowship in Canadian Legal His...

New from Penn State University Press: The Fight for Status and Privilege in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile, 1465–1598 , by Michael J...

James E. Pfander and Daniel D. Birk, Northwestern University School of Law , have posted Article III Judicial Power, the Adverse-Party Requ...

Suja A. Thomas, University of Illinois College of Law , has posted Blackstone's Curse: The Fall...

Beth A. Colgan (Stanford Law School) has posted " Reviving the Excessive Fines Clause ," which appears in Volume 102, no. 2 of th...

"The New Man on the Job" ( LC ) Former Guest Blogger Ajay Mehrotra's op-ed: The Lo...

This one looks fascinating, especially for fans of The Metaphysical Club .  Frederic R. Kellogg, Geo...

Sarah Krakoff (University of Colorado Law School) has posted " Constitutional Concern, Membership, and Race ," which is forthcomin...

Courtesy: Office of the Curator, US Supreme Court When U.S. Supreme Justice James McReynolds...

[We have the following press release from the Organization of American Historians about former LHB G...

Corinna Lain, University of Richmond School of Law , has posted God, Civic Virtue, and the American Way: Reconstructing Engel , which is for...

Hugh D. Spitzer, University of Washington School of Law , has posted Pivoting to Progressivism: Justice Stephen J. Chadwick, the Washington ...

Just out from the Cambridge University Press is The Fourteenth Amendment and the Privileges and Immu...

Chris Bryant's Parliament: the Biography, Vol. 1  (Doublday) is reviewed in the New Statesman . "Bryant’s volume runs from this p...