Legal History Blog

Rutgers University Press has released Battleground New Jersey: Vanderbilt, Hague, and Their Fight for Justice (Dec. 2014), by lawyer and in...

Jotwell 's latest legal history posting is Christopher Schmidt's review of  Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Re...

Laura F. Edwards , the Peabody Family Professor of History at Duke University has published A Legal...

New from Oxford University Press: Ideas with Consequences: The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Jan. 2015), by Am...

Please join us in thanking guest blogger Sophia Z. Lee (University of Pennsylvania) for a terrific series of posts, most of which related t...

[Here’s an announcement of an employment opportunity with an oral history project this summer.] ...

Sorry that we're a bit late on this one, but better later than never! Here's the line-up for the University of Minnesota's Sprin...

Credit [We have the following announcement.] Reminder! March 16 is the deadline for submission...

[We're moving this post up, as the deadline is less than a month away.] The American Society for Legal History (ASLH) invites paper su...

John Doar escorts James Meredith at Ole Miss, 1962 ( LC ) “You hear the name John Doar fleeting...

Alison L. LaCroix, University of Chicago Law School, has posted Continuity in Secession: The Case of the Confederate Constitution , which i...

Meherjirana Library in Navsari, India I am delighted to be a contributor to the Legal Histor...

We've mentioned reviews of Jill Leovy's Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America  (Speigel & Grau) in previous weeks. This ...

As a fitting last post, I thought I’d write about epilogues. My book’s epilogue was, perhaps, the hardest thing for me to write. After spen...

We are delighted to welcome Mitra Sharafi to the blog for the month of March. credit She is Associate Professor of Law at the Univers...

This post is not about sharing my book-related experiences but soliciting yours. As Sally Gordon mentioned in an earlier post , the series i...

Coming up at Boston College is Legally Blind: Law, Ethics, and the Third Reich , a conference focus...

Norman P. Ho, Peking University School of Transnational Law, has posted Understanding Traditional Chinese Law in Practice: The Implementati...

Edmund Burke ( credit ) From Edmund Burke , who entered Middle Temple in 1749, via David Bromwic...

Aaron T. Knapp , a doctoral candidate in Boston University’s Department of History , has posted The Judicialization of Police , which is for...

Anna Di Robilant, Boston University School of Law, has posted Populist Property Law .  Here is the abstract:     This article tells the s...

Out from Columbia University Press is An Improbable Life: My Sixty Years at Columbia and Other Adven...

Daniel A. Crane, University of Michigan Law School , has posted Debunking Humphrey's Executor . ...

Laura I. Appleman, Willamette University College of Law , has posted Gothic Stories, Mens Rea, and N...

Lea S. VanderVelde, University of Iowa College of Law , has posted two items from her backlist.  The first, written with Sandhya Subramanian...

Law and History Review 33:1 (February 2015) is now out on Cambridge Journals Online : States'...

Yes, a first time author may be more concerned with finding any publisher than with being picky about the terms of publication. Even so, s...

My Georgetown Law colleague Anna Gelpern has posted Pari Passu 's Golden Fossils .  Here is the abstract: U.S. federal court rulings...

[We are moving this up, because the conversation between these two Federal District Judges takes place today, Wednesday February 25, at 4:30...

William N. Eskridge Jr, Yale Law School , has posted Original Meaning and Marriage Equality , which is forthcoming in the Houston Law Review...

New from Oxford University Press: I mprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey and the American Death Penalty (Jan. 2015), by Jeffrey L. Kirch...

“To many modern eaters,” writes Stephanie Tai, Wisconsin Law , “the worlds of agriculture and food appear detached from each other.”  In Foo...

We have word that  "Law in Transition," the 6th Annual Berg Conference and XXIst Annual Meeting of the Association of Young Legal ...

HH, 1929 ( LC ) On Tuesday, March 3, from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m., the Historical Presidency series of...

Just out from the New Press: Madison’s Music: On Reading the First Amendment , by Burt Neuborne (NYU Law School). A description from the Pr...

If you are a legal historian in a law school, writing articles as well as a book is likely a tenure requirement. Even if you don’t face inst...

Adam Rothman, Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University , has just published Beyond Fre...

Rebecca E. Zietlow, University of Toledo College of Law , has posted The Other Citizenship Clause, which is to appear in “ The Greatest and...

Your Legal History Bloggers are out and about this weekend.  See you Monday.

David Bernstein and Ilya Somin, George Mason University School of Law , have posted The Mainstreaming of Libertarian Constitutionalism, whi...