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Adam B. Forsyth , a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Cambridge , has published England’s Erastus? Or, James Morice and the...

A notice of  Doris Morgan Rueda  ( Appalachian ).  A notice of the  2025 Conference on the Civil War, devoted to “New Directions in the Lega...

Maurits den Hollander, Tilburg University , has published Court, Credit, and Capital: Amsterdam's Insolvency Legislation in the Dutch Go...

Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash and Cass R. Sunstei n have published Radical Constitutional Change in the Virginia Law Review : At defining p...

Geoffrey Samuel , Professor Emeritus, Kent Law School , has published Principia Iuris: A Historical and Comparative Introduction to the Engl...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE.] We are writing on behalf of the Center for International and Comparative Law at the University o...

Marco Basile, Boston College Law School , has published The Splintering of American Public Law in the University of Chicago Law Review : Co...

Gerard N. Magliocca, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law , has published The Actual Art of Governing: Justice Robert H. Jack...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE.] Ashton Phelps Chair in Constitutional Law Tulane University Law School invites nominations and ...

[From Ryan Greenwood, Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections, we have word of a new digital exhibit at the University of Minnesota La...

The Heart of Suffolk: Witch Trials, "a new pop-up exhibition . . . exploring the stories of the women and men who faced execution after...

Ben Johnson, University of Florida Levin College of Law , has posted A History of Vacatu r: Vacatur, a seemingly routine appellate tool, has...

Renee Lettow Lerner, George Washington University Law School , has posted two of her entries in The Heritage Guide to the Constitution , edi...

 The Texas Law Review (Volume 103, issue 9) recently published an essay of interest: Kali Murray (Marquette University Law School), " ...

[We have the following announcemen t of the American Historical Association .  DRE.] The American Historical Association invites you to atte...

Antonia Smith and Geoff McLay , Victoria University of Wellington/Te Herenga Waka Faculty of Law , have posted Hiding in Plain Sight: The L...

[Via H-Law , we have the following job announcement .  But see this .  DRE] The Department of History in the College of Arts and Sciences a...

Maud Anne Bracke, University of Glasgow , has published Reproductive Rights in Modern France: Feminism, Contraception, and Abortion, 1950-19...

[We have the following announcement from Jeremy K. Kessler, Columbia Law School.  DRE] I'm pleased to announce the inaugural meeting of ...

Congratulations to  Alison LaCroix, University of Chicago Law School , upon the awarding to her  of the American Historical Association’s Li...

Gerard N. Magliocca, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law , has posted “ Without Domicile or Allegiance: Gypsies and Birthrig...

[We have the following announcement from the Historical Society of the New York Courts .  DRE.] Remembering Willowbrook: Ensuring Justice, ...

J. Mark Ramseyer, Harvard Law School , has posted When Economic Performance Turns on the Colonized Rather than the Colonist : Acemoglu, John...

Lucia Rubinelli, Yale University , has published The Shortest Way to Democracy: Debates about the Referendum and Socialist Democratic Theory...

Simon P. Newman, University of Glasgow , has published Taken Not Given: The End of Slavery in Britain in Law and History Review : Between t...

K. J. Kesselring, Dalhousie University , has published Conspiracy, Crime, and Conflict in the Court of Star Chamber in Law and History Revi...

[We have the following announcement from the American Historical Association .  DRE] History Behind the Headlines: Government Shutdowns and...

[We have the following call from the Supreme Court Historical Society for an Editor and Chair of Board of Editors for the Journal of Suprem...

John Fabian Witt, Yale Law School, has published  The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America (Simon...

In today's New York Times , Adam Liptak develops the significance of Caleb Nelson 's recent "bombshell" (William Baude) ...

[We have the following announcement  of a book launch to be held at the Library and Archives of Canada on Wednesday, November 12, from 7 -...

The Harvard Law Library ’s rich collection on Magna Carta
 ""offers students an important link to the past and the present" (...

Julia Klaus, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg , has posted "The Right of Existence of Peoples as Independent Nations...

Amanda L. Tyler, University of California, Berkeley School of Law , has posted Levels of Generality, the Limits of Originalism, and the Supr...

Sohaira Siddiqui, Georgetown University , has published  Islamic Law on Trial: Contesting Colonial Power in British India (University of Ca...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE.] Harvard Law Schoo l invites applications for the Raoul Berger-Mark De Wolfe Howe Legal History F...