Legal History Blog

Yale University Press has published  Marital Privilege: Marriage, Inequality, and the Transformation of American Law , by Serena Mayeri (Uni...

The special issue (44:4) of the Journal of American Ethnic History devoted to Immigration and Citizenship , edited by Hardeep Dhillon and ...

The Ames Foundation , with the financial support of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts , has been transcribing the twenty-two volumes of ...

Northwestern Law has a post on the grants Ajay K. Mehrotra received in support of his book project, “American Outlier: Economic Inequalit...

Maureen E. Brady, Harvard Law School , has posted Debates Over "Public Use" in the State Constitutional Conventions : Historians a...

 We have the following job posting : The Jurisprudence and Social Policy (JSP) PhD Program in the School of Law at the University of Calif...

 [The June 2025 issue of the Journal of American History is chock full of legal history.  We reprodcue its “In This Issue.”  DRE.] M. Scott...

Ellen D. Katz, University of Michigan Law School , has posted Minor v. Happersett and the Repudiation of Universal Suffrage : Minor v. Happ...

New from Routledge: Legal History in the Curriculum: Comparative Perspectives, Critical Approaches and Future Directions , edited By Carolin...

There's quite a bit of legal history in the current issue ( 40:2 ) of the Touro Law Review .   Roger Newman reviews of Guido Calabresi...

Grace Watkins , a recent graduate from the Yale Law School and a DPhil student in History at Oxford University has published her note, Piety...

David E Bernstein, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School , has published The Supreme Court, Education, and the KKK in the 1920s ...

[We have the following announcement .  H/t: JQB.  DRE] Established in 2025 by his family, the William E. Leuchtenburg Fund at the University...

Wojciech Engelking, University of Warsaw, has published How Kantian is Kelsen’s Early Theory of International Law? in Law and History Revie...

Stephanie H. McMahon, Indiana University Maurer School of Law , will deliver America’s Love/HateRelationship with Tax Protests , the 2025 Ha...

Like us, you might have heard something about limited access to the collections at the National Archives, College Park .  Here is the lates...

Jonathan Klaaren, University of the Witwatersrand , has posted Law under Apartheid , which is forthcoming in the unfortunately timely Oxford...

Seth Barrett Tillman, National University of Ireland Faculty of Law, has posted A Phenomenon in Search of a Theory/Recent Citations to Mich...

[We're moving this up, because the article is now out in the British Journal of American Legal Studies . DRE] John D. Bessler, Univers...

Via H-Net, we have the following CFP : Invisible Actors in the Making of International Law, 1750-2000 (Sciences Po Paris, 27–28 November 202...

New from Princeton University Press:   Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America   (2025), by  Peter Conti-Bro...

We were surprised, moved, but also pleased to see the posthumous publication of R. B. Bernstein’s Alexander Hamilton: A Very Short Introduct...

Salutations to the participants in the J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History of the American Society for Legal History , which...

The second of today’s HAT posts is Joanna L. Grossman, SMU-Dedman School of Law , and Lawrence M. Friedman, Stanford Law School , The Quic...

It’s “history and tradition” (HAT) Friday.  Our first post is Joseph Blocher, Duke University School of Law , and Reva Siegel, Yale Law Scho...

Mark Jones , professor emeritus of criminal justice and criminology, East Carolina University, has published A History of the United States ...

[We have word from the Modern Criminal Law Review of From Treason to Trump: Felony’s Medieval Origins and Modern Resilience , a forum on El...

Richard Primus, University of Michigan Law School , has published The Oldest Constitutional Question: Enumeration and Federal Power (Harvar...

Congratulations to LHB Founder Mary Dudziak on the publication of a new edition of her landmark book, Cold War Civil Rights (Princeton Uni...

[We are moving up this previously posted call for submissions for this student writing prize because the due date is now July 15 .  DRE] The...

Notre Dame Law ’s notice of its two prize winners at the recent annual meeting of the Supreme Court Historical Society, Barry Cushman and ...