Legal History Blog

Peter Charles Hoffer, University of Georgia , has published Uncivil Warriors: The Lawyers’ Civil War with Oxford University Press: It was...

Leora F. Eisenstadt, Temple University , has posted Enemy and Ally: Religion in Loving v. Virginia and Beyond , which is forthcoming in volu...

We’ve previously noted the publication of Drafting the Irish Constitution, 1935–1937: Transnational Influences in Interwar Europe (Palgrave...

Charles L. Barzun, University of Virginia School of Law , has posted Three Forms of Legal Pragmatism , which is forthcoming in the Washingto...

Sebastian Edwards , the Henry Ford II Professor of International Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles , has published Amer...

We have word of a teleconference sponsored by Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section of the American Bar Association, Deregulat...

We a call for papers for the Fourth International Conference of the Chair Innocent III and the Universidad Católica de Murcia .  It is entit...

Sara Mayeux, Vanderbilt University Law School , has posted The Federal Courts and Criminal Justice , which is forthcoming in Approaches to F...

Faiz Ahmed, Brown University , published Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires with Har...

Around the time of the publication of my book, The Sit-Ins , I decided to give more attention to something I had mostly avoided up to that ...

Eric M. Freedman, the Siggi B. Wilzig Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Rights at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra Uni...

Just out from the American Indian Law Journal : " CDIB: The Role of the Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood in Defining Native Americ...

[We have the following call for papers.] On the Origins of International Legal Thought. Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University...

The American Historical Association has announced its 2018 Research Grant Winners . Of particular interest to readers of this blog is the ...

[We have the following announcement.] The Law and Society Association ’s Dissertation Prize is awarded annually to a dissertation written ...

“Two retired judges of the Supreme Court of Canada say 50 years is too long to seal internal court documents revealing the communications...

Andrew Kent, Fordham University School of Law , has posted Congress and the Independence of Federal Law Enforcement , which is forthcoming i...

James Durling , a student at the Yale Law School , has posted The District of Columbia and Article III : Today, nearly everyone assumes th...

Scott L. Cummings, UCLA School of Law , has posted Law and Social Movements: Reimagining the Progressive Canon , which is forthcoming in the...

Tembeka Ngcukaitobi has published The Land is Ours: Black Lawyers and the Birth of Constitutionalism in South Africa with Penguin Random H...

Do I want my story to have a happy ending or a sad ending? As I was completing The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Er...

[We’ve received the following announcement of the conference Key Biographies in the Legal History of European Union, 1950-1993 , to take pla...

From the Association for Documentary Editing website : The Harvard Law School Library seeks an experienced, collaborative, and service-o...

We're delighted to learn that Robert W Gordon, Stanford Law schoo l, has won the Stanton Wheeler Mentorship Award of the Law and Societ...

Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Harvard Law School , has posted The Devil's Daughter of Hell Fire: Anger's Role in Medieval English Felony Ca...

[We have the following CFP.] The American Society for Legal History invites paper submissions from graduate students and early-career scho...

James E. Baldwin (Royal Holloway, University of London ) published Islamic Law and Empire in Ottoman Cairo with Oxford University Press ...

Kevin Arlyck ( credit ) I’m very pleased to announce that Kevin Arlyck will be joining Georgetown Law ’s faculty this fall as an Ass...

From JOTWELL's Legal History section comes an admiring review of K. Sabeel Rahman 's Democracy Against Domination (Oxford Universi...

Mathias M. Siems, Durham University Law School, has posted Malicious Legal Transplants, which is forthcoming in Legal Studies 38 (2018): 1...

Marco Duranti, University of Sydney , published The Conservative Human Rights Revolution with Oxford University Press in 2017. From the ...