Thursday, May 23, 2013

The Backhouse Backlist

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Constance B. Backhouse , a Distinguished University Professor on the University of Ottawa 's Fac...

LaChance to Emory

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Congratulations to Daniel LaChance , who joins the Emory University Department of History this fall as an Assistant Professor. From the Hi...

Reid on CJ White and the Selective Service Cases

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Charles J. Reid Jr., University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota) , has posted A Louisiana Civ...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

White on the "Strangely Insignificant Role" of the Supreme Court in the Civil War

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At least since the publication of Peter Irons’s The New Deal Lawyers (1982), constitutional histori...

Bessie Margolin (1909-1996)

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[My exam in American Legal History usually includes a biographical essay.  The 2012 exam, for exampl...

New Release: Murkens, "From Empire to Union: Conceptions of German Constitutional Law since 1871"

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Oxford University Press has released From Empire to Union: Conceptions of German Constitutional Law since 1871 , by Jo Eric Khushal Murkens ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

CFP: NYU/Tamiment Cold War History Seminar

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 [We have, via H-Law , the following call for papers.] New York University’s Center for the United States and the Cold War invites New Yor...

CFP: “Revisiting Charles Beard's An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution: An Interdisciplinary Symposium”

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From the University of Virginia, we have the following Call for Papers: “Revisiting Charles Beard's An Economic Interpretation of the ...

The U.S. Legal History Survey Revisited: III -- Methods of Evaluation

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This is another installment of my series of posts on teaching the U.S. Legal History survey . (Earlier posts are here and here .) Having ju...
Monday, May 20, 2013

Kornhauser, "The Consistency of Conservative Tax Policy"

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Marjorie E. Kornhauser (Tulane University School of Law) has posted " The Consistency of Conservative Tax Policy ." It is forthcom...

New Release: Beever, "Forgotten Justice"

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New from Oxford University Press: Allan Beever , Forgotten Justice: Forms of Justice in the History of Legal and Political Theory (2013). H...
Sunday, May 19, 2013

The Roberts Court, Reinventing Government, and More: This Week in the Book Pages

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In the Washington Post Jeffrey Rosen reviews The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution...
Saturday, May 18, 2013

Weekend Roundup

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On June 27, 2013, Morehead State University will host a Federalism Symposium featuring "academ...
Friday, May 17, 2013

New Release: Zackin, "Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places"

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New from Princeton University Press: Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places: Why State Constitutions Contain America's Positive Righ...

New Journal: Comparative Legal History

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The journal Comparative Legal History has officially launched. Here's the announcement: Comparative Legal History: An international a...

YJL&H 24:2 (2012)

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We just realized that the latest issue of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities has two works of legal history, The first is Personal ...
Thursday, May 16, 2013

2013 Hurst Fellows

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Congratulations to the 2013 Hurst Fellows ! As announced by the University of Wisconsin Institute for Legal Studies, they are: Gregory Ab...

UW Law & Society Post-Doc to Wood

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Via the University of Wisconsin Law School website , we have news that Laurie Wood has been named the 2013-14 Law and Society Postdoctoral...

Lyall's "Irish House of Lords"

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Andrew Lyall , who taught land law and legal anthropology in the Faculty of Law at University Colleg...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Book Prizes in American Legal History

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[While we're posting announcements for all the other Cromwell Prize subcommittees, we might as well move up this announcement for the Cr...

Zelden's "Thurgood Marshall"

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Just out in Routledge’s Historical Americans series is Thurgood Marshall: Race, Rights, and the Stru...

Rose on the Law of Maintenance and Sir John Fastolf

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Jonathan Rose, Arizona State University College of Law , has posted The Law of Maintenance and the Obligations Of Lordship: A Case Study .  ...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Cromwell Prize for Articles Published in 2012

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The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation has generously funded a prize of $2,500 for an excellent article in American legal history published ...

Lind's "Lincoln's Suspension of Habeas Corpus"

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D ouglas Lind , the Law Library Director and Professor of Law at the SIU School of Law ,has published Lincoln's Suspension of Habeas Cor...

AHA Prizes: Deadline Approaching

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May 15 is the deadline for many of the prizes awarded by the American Historical Association . Of particular interest to our readers:...

Chief Justice Roberts to Lecture at the Jackson Center

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[The Jackson biographer John Q. Barrett, St. John’s Law , has sent out the following announcement over the Jackson List .] On this Friday,...
Monday, May 13, 2013

L&HR 31:2 (May 2013)

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Law and History Review ’s 31:2 issue (May 2013) is up on the Cambridge Journals website .  Here are ...

Visiting Position in U.S. History at Brown

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[We have the following announcement.  We understand that American Legal History is among those “courses with broad appeal” that the announce...

Cromwell Prize for Dissertations Completed in 2012

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The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation has generously funded a dissertation prize of $2,500 for the year 2013. The winning dissertation may ...

Environment, Law and History

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A hearty welcome to the blogosphere to Environment, Law, and History , run by Sarah Milov and David Schorr.  They explain: The connection...

Women in the Life and Law of the D.C. Circuit Courts

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[Here is a more complete announcement for an event we've previously noted .] The Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circui...

New Release: Griffin, "Long Wars and the Constitution"

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As a result of my earlier post on teaching " Law and the 'War on Terror ,'" I learned about Long Wars and the Constitution...