Legal History Blog

 [We have the following announcement.  DRE] Tel Aviv University Law and History Workshop, Fall 2020, Thursdays, 14:15 - 15:45.  Organized by...

Jennifer L. Behrens , J. Michael Goodson Law Library, Duke Law , has posted The Empty Chair: Reflections on an Absent Justice , which has be...

 A volume edited by  Łukasz Jan Korporowicz (University of Lodz, Poland), Studies in English Legal History , came out earlier in 2020. It i...

Michael D. Ramsey, University of San Diego School of Law , has posted Originalism and Birthright Citizenship , which is forthcoming in volum...

Charles L. Barzun, University of Virginia School of Law , has posted Catharine MacKinnon and the Common Law : Few scholars have influenced a...

One thing peculiar about land is that we are predisposed to encounter it as if it was always there, seemingly naturalized from the outset wi...

Nicholas R. Parrillo, Yale Law School , has posted A Critical Assessment of the Originalist Case Against Administrative Regulatory Power: Ne...

Earlier this year, Brill released Rights at the Margins: Historical, Legal and Philosophical Perspectives , edited by Jonathan Robinson (ind...

William S. Bush and David Tanenhaus discuss their new edited col lection, Ages of Anxiety : Histo ri cal and Transnational Perspectives on...

Lea S. VanderVelde, University of Iowa College of Law, and Gabriel Jackson Chin, University of California, Davis School of Law , have poste...

Norman Abrams, UCLA Law School , has posted Uncovered: The Legislative Histories of the Early Mail Fraud Statutes: The federal crime of mai...

The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History has announced "An Evening of Canadian Legal History,” a monthly lecture series to be c...

Steven G. Calabresi and Matteo Godi have published Italian Constitutionalism and Its Origins in the Italian Law Journal 6:1 (2020): 23-5...

  Tom Johnson (University of York) has published the following article: "Soothsayers, Legal Culture, and the Politics of Truth in Late-...

Joseph E. David, Sapir Academic College, Israel , has published Kinship, Law and Politics: An Anatomy of Belonging in the Law in Context ser...

Hannah Haksgaard, University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law , has posted The Homesteading Rights of Deserted Wives: A History , which...

  Alastair McClure (University of Hong Kong) has published "Archaic Sovereignty and Colonial Law: The reintroduction of corporal punis...

[We have the following announcement from our friends at Max Planck.  DRE] Religious Normativity in Early Modern New Granada Ecclesiastical i...

I once wrote about a chicken that refused to die and called the article “The Fowl Affair.” Not everyone was amused, and I was told to go wit...

 [We are only just getting around to posting here the following information, which has been up on the website of the American Society for Le...

 [We have the following announcement from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  DRE] Greater China Legal History Seminar Series: Feeding the...

In the eastern end of the Indian Ocean, the hardening of racial boundaries from the second half of the nineteenth century onwards occurred u...

Congratulations to Samantha Barbas, University at Buffalo Law , on her receipt of an NEH grant for a "sociolegal history of New York T...

[We have the following announcement from the Transnational Legal History Group Seminar of the Centre for Comparative and Transnational Law o...

Max W. L. Wong ( University of Hong Kong ) has published Chinese Marriage and Social Change: The legal abolition of concubinage in Hong Kon...

 [We have the following announcement.  DRE] The Selden Society with the Four Inns of Court presents The Fire Courts: Successfully Delivering...

Ross E. Davies, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School , has posted A Changed Court , 2020 Green Bag Almanac 193: On June 10, 1...

  Christian Burset (Notre Dame Law School) has an article coming out in vol. 74 of the  Vanderbilt Law Review , forthcoming in 2021. Here...

 Joe McIntyre and Sue Milne, University of South Australia School of Law , have posted The Alien and the Constitution: The Legal History of ...

 We have the following Call for Papers: Unauthorized European Migrations to the United States           We solicit propos...

The Stanford Center for Law and History has announced the lineup for its 2020-2021 workshop: Oct. 6, 2020: Lisa Surwillo, Stanford Iberian ...

[The following announcement appeared on H-Net .  DRE] The Virginia Military Institute seeks a tenure-track associate or full professor for...

In writing my book Fluid Jurisdictions: Arabs and Colonial Law in Southeast Asia (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020), I approach legal...