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Here is the TOC for the American Journal of Legal History 55:1 (January 2015).  This is a special issue, “Essays in Honor of Lawrence J. Re...

Via H-Law , we have news of a new exhibit at the Harvard Law School Library, “Where Mis’ry Moans”: F...

New from Hart P ublishing is the collection of essays, Fascism and Criminal Law: History, Theory, Co...

Dissent  has a review by Samuel Moyn titled, " Fantasies of Federalism ," which reviews both Frederick Cooper's  Citizenship b...

Via the Canadian Legal History Blog : The Canadian Law and Society Association invites submissions for its annual Graduate Student Essay ...

The Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley, has announced the Spring 2015 lineup for its speake...

Former LHB guest blogger Ajah Mehrotra (Indiana University Maurer School of Law) has posted a new essay: " Reviving Fiscal Citizensh...

[We have the following announcement.] Tel Aviv Law is pleased to announce the Spring 2015 schedule for the Yigal Arnon & Co. Legal Hi...

Back in August, we noted a paper of interest: " Beyond the Indian Commerce Clause ," by Gregory Ablavsky (University of Pennsyl...

New from the Catholic University of America Press: The Glorious Revolution and the Continuity of Law (Dec. 2014) by Richard S. Kay (Univer...

New from Indiana University Press: Jews and Islamic Law in Early 20th-Century Yemen (2014) by Mark S. Wagner ( Louisiana State University ...

We have news of the publication of On Their Watch: Mass Violence and State Apathy in India , edited ...

[We have a call for “Inside and Out: Probing the Boundaries of Law,” McGill's Annual Graduate Conference in Law, May 29-30, 2015, Montre...

The March 2014 issue of Enterprise and Society includes a new article by Nate Holdren (Indiana University Bloomington): " Incentivizi...

This weekend there are two reviews of Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary  by Anita Anand (Bloomsbury)--one in The Guardian , here ...

From New York Magazine : 53 Historians Weigh In on Barack Obama's Legacy . It's a pretty stunning list of contributors, inc...

We are pleased to announce the following conference: Managing Borders An Interdisciplinary Conference on American Immigration Marking the...

No, it's not the title of the latest "Hunger Games" movie but the subject of "Shouting Fire in a Theater": The Life ...

Wilfrid Pres t and Matthew Stubbs, co-convenors, on behalf of the Conference Committee of the Austra...

[We have the following communication from William G. Thomas III, History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Faculty Fellow, Center for Digi...

Nelson Johnson has published Battleground New Jersey: Vanderbilt, Hague, and Their Fight for Justic...

Indiana University-Bloomington is accepting applications for the Jerome Hall Postdoctoral Fellowship. The application deadline (recently e...

[We have the following announcement.] The American Society for Legal History (ASLH) invites paper submissions for its third pre-conference...

Duane Rudolph has posted How Violence Killed an American Labor Union . It will appear in the Rutgers Law Review 67 (2015).  Here is the ab...

Christopher Tomlins, U niversity of California, Berkeley , Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program,...

[We have the following announcement.] The Legal History and Rare Books (LH&RB) Section of the American Association of Law Libraries (AAL...

[We have the following CFP for the Socio-Legal Studies Association 2015, conference, "Law and Justice in Colonies and Post-Colonies.&qu...

Colin G. James, Newcastle Law School ; has posted A History of Cruelty in Australian Divorce , which appeared in the 2006 ANZLH E-Journal.  ...

Umut Özsu , Assistant Professor of Law, University of Manitoba, has recently published Formalizing D...

[We have the following call for proposals .] The 2015 annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History (ASLH) will take place in W...

Christopher Tomlins, University of California, Berkeley Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program , has posted Foreword. 'Law as …' II...

[We have the following announcement.] The editors of Law & Social Inquiry are pleased to announce our annual competition for the best...

Michael Boucai (State University of New York, Buffalo, Law School) has posted " Glorious Precedents: When Gay Marriage was Radical .&q...

After a two week vacation, we have several book reviews to highlight for Legal History Blog readers. The Nation  has a review of Naomi Mu...

From the New York Review of Books : " 'Selma' v. History ." "By distorting an essential truth about the relationship...