Legal History Blog

Laura Weinrib, University of Chicago Law School , has published The Taming of Free Speech: America’s...

Fan of Marx? Hitler? Just need more information?  Check out these book reviews. In The Guardian , Richard Norton-Taylor reviews Sus...

Last Thursday, the Icesi Law School in Cali, Colombia, held a conference to commemorate twenty-fi...

I'm very pleased to announce that Jefferson Decker , an Assistant Professor of American Studies ...

Via H-Law , we are passing along the following job announcement from Yale University : The Chauncey Postdoctoral Fellowships are up to...

(Before you start reading this post in earnest, please know that it is not as long as it seems.   Thank you.) There are some really won...

Just out with Harvard University Press is   Rage for Order: The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800-1850 ,   by  Lau...

Peter L. Lindseth, University of Connecticut School of Law , has posted What's in a Label? The EU as “Administrative” and “Constitutiona...

Just published is New Perspectives on European Women’s Legal History , ed. Sara L. Kimble and Marion...

[We have the following announcement.] The Twelfth Annual Conferenc e of the Israeli History and Law Association will be held on Monday, Oc...

New from Harvard University Press: Legal Plunder: Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Eu...

Martin Lederman, Georgetown University Law Center , has posted If George Washington Did it, Does tha...

Joanne Sweeney, University of Louisville , has posted Undead Statutes: The Rise, Fall, and Continuing Uses of Adultery and Fornication Crimi...

Three of the five meetings of the seminar of Princeton University's Law and Public Affairs (LAP...

New from the University Press of Kansas: Nullification and Secession in Modern Constitutional Thought (Sept. 2016), edited by Sanford Levin...

There's an exciting collection of reviews out this week. In The Nation, Stephanie McCurry rev...

Kalyani Ramnath , a doctoral candidate at Princeton University , is interviewed on a bollywood film's depiction of the Nanavati trial....

[Whoever left?  But, seriously, we have the following CFP.  H/t: Jay Stewart.] The Society for History in the Federal Government (SHFG) w...

Attention advanced graduate students and junior scholars -- the Hurst Summer Institute is now accepting applications. This year's Insti...