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The National History Center and Woodrow Wilson [!!!] Center have announced the Inaugural Washington History Seminar Webinar with Heather Co...

In my last post I wrote about getting writer’s block while in graduate school, after having written a rough draft of the dissertation. This...

Princeton University Press has released The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants , by Adam Goodman (Uni...

American Journal of Legal History, 60:2 (June 2020) is now available online :  Reforming Criminal Justice in the Ottoman Empire: Police, ...

From the Washington Post 's "Made by History" section: Adam Laats (Binghamton University (SUNY)), " Religious animus did...

Noah A. Rosenblum , the incoming Samuel I. Golieb Fellow at NYU School of Law , has posted Power-Conscious Professional Responsibility: Just...

One email, six excruciating months. “Dear Nate, We were excited to read the draft of your dissertation. What a great project! We’ve attached...

We missed the symposium in the SMU Law Review 72:3 (2019) on the centennial of the US Supreme Court First Amendment decisions of 1919: ...

Megan Ming Francis, University of Washington , and John Fabian Witt, Yale Law School , have posted Movement Capture or Movement Strategy? A...

I want to thank the editors of the Legal History Blog for having me as a guest blogger. It’s an honor and I’m delighted to have my words on ...

[We have, via the Irish Legal History Society and LPK, the following announcement of the postponement of the British Legal History Confere...

Coming out soon by Samuel Fury Childs Daly (Duke University) is A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War...

We are delighted to welcome our July guest blogger: Nate Holdren , Assistant Professor of Law, Politics, and Society at Drake University. Pr...

We here at LHB are grateful to Diana S. Kim, Georgetown University , for her very thoughtful guest posts this month growing out of her book ...

This is the sixth in a series of posts about my book, Empires of Vice . In my first post , I mentioned that this is a book for multipl...

Congratulations to Ivon Padilla-Rodriguez , Columbia University , and former LHB Associate Blogger Smita Ghosh , University of Pennsylvania ...

Out tomorrow from Macmillan is The Demagogue's Playbook: The Battle for American Democracy from the Founders to Trump , by Eric A. Posne...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE.] The University of Vienna ( 20 faculties and centres, 178 fields of study, approx. 9.800 mem...

Thomas Ruffin, 1859 ( LC ) From 2018, Eric L. Muller, UNC School of Law , and Sally Greene , on the portrait of Thomas Ruffin at the N...

[We're moving this up, because the deadline has been extended to July 15 .  DRE] We have the following announcement: Call for Applic...

This is the fifth in a series of posts about my book, Empires of Vice .  In my previous post , I discussed how understanding the inn...

Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, University of Michigan Law School , has posted Antitrust and the Corporate Tax, 1909–1928: Lincoln Steffens ( NYPL ...

Robert Post, Yale Law School , whom you should not confuse with this fellow , has posted The Incomparable Chief Justiceship of William Howar...

 [We are moving up this call for papers, which has just been revised--see italicize words--in light of recent quarantine breaches in New Z...

I imagine that many of you, like me, are devoting part of the summer to reconfiguring a legal history course for online--and not merely remo...

Alexander Williams (JD-PhD candidate, Yale University ) has published "Imagining the Post-colonial Lawyer: Legal Elites and the Indian ...

This is the fourth in a series of posts about my book, Empires of Vice .  In an earlier post , I mentioned that a key argument in  Em...

Elizabeth D. Katz, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law , has posted "A Woman Stumps Her State": Nellie G. Robinson an...

The latest post in JOTWELL's Legal History Section comes from Reuel Schiller (UC Hastings Law), who has written an admiring review of S...

ASLH Secretary Anne Twitty on her recent discovery concerning  Old Miss’s Monument to White Supremacy , in The Atlantic .  The New Yor...

[We are grateful to Mitch Fraas for forwarding this letter from David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States.  DRE] National Archives...