Legal History Blog

Just out from University of London Press: Law and Justice in the 1950s: Case Studies From a Neglected Decade , edited by Fiona Cownie and R...

Nathan Dorn , the Curator of Rare Books at the Law Library of Congress, on  Hippolytus de Marsiliis: The First Criminal Law Professor and H...

Randy Beck, University of Georgia School of Law , has posted The False Claims Act and the English Eradication of Qui Tam Legislation : Congr...

Paul Mitchell, University College London , has published Gaskell and the Law (Hart/Bloomsbury): Elizabeth Gaskell is best known today as a ...

[We have the following CFP for The Four Nations Law and the Humanities Forums .  DRE] We are excited to announce the calls for papers for Fo...

This year's Harmsworth Conference of the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford is The Meanings of Independence: Th...

[We have the following CFP.  DRE.] On behalf of the organizers, the Polish Academy of Sciences – Scientific Centre in Vienna, the Faculty of...

Rohit De, Yale University , and Ornit Shani, University of Haifa , have published Assembling India's Constitution: A New Democratic Hist...

Maureen E. Brady, Harvard Law School , has posted Property v. Guns: The Level-of-Generality Problem in Wolford : Wolford v. Lopez presents ...

Lev Menand, Columbia Law School , has posted The Unitary Executive and the Federal Reserve : The Supreme Court may soon embrace an interpret...

[As a reminder, we are moving up the following Call for Submissions.  DRE] The California Supreme Court Historical Society (CSCHS) encourag...

From the  Washington University Law Review Online : Michael Bannerjee (UC Berkeley) on  " Land-Grant Universities ."    The  Mayn...

Christian R. Burset, Notre Dame Law School , has posted The Origins of Statutory Stare Decisis : Federal courts apply stare decisis with ext...

Carole Prietto , the archivist of Georgetown Law , recently asked me about the history of courses designed to prepare law graduates for the ...

My Georgetown Law colleague John Mikhail has posted Birthright Citizenship, Unwritten Constitutionalism, and the Nature of the Union , whi...

The Supreme Court Historical Society has announced that, effective immediately, G. Edward White has succeeded Ross E. Davies as Editor of...

Our friends at  The Green Bag have published the latest in its series of coffee table books under the series title  Regulation & Imag...

David B. Schorr has published Against "Anglicization": Class, Codification, and the Common Law in Palestine's Civil Wrongs Or...

Columbia Law reports that Barbara Aronstein Black  died yesterday.  She was president of the American Society for Legal History in 1985-198...

We have the following announcement: This spring, the Clark Legal History Series at Boston University School of Law meets on   Wednesdays at ...

The portal for submitting proposals for the annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History in Banff on November 12-14, 2026, is no...

Among the  prizes and awards announced at the recent meeting of the American Historical Association  was the  John K. Fairbank Prize in Eas...

Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard Law School , has posted The Enduring Relevance of Alger Hiss vs. Whittaker Chambers : The Hiss-Chambers saga stemm...

Among the  prizes and awards announced at the recent meeting of the American Historical Association  was the Littleton-Griswold Prize in Am...

Various prizes and awards were announced at the recent meeting of the American Historical Association , including the Lepage Center Award f...

[We have the following CFP.  DRE.] "The refugee-migrant distinction: toward a global history,” October 15-16, 2026, Darwin College, Cam...