Legal History Blog

The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World , by Yale law professors Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro,...

In the Washington Post 's "Made by History" section: Lauren McIver Thompson (Kennesaw State University/Georgia State Universi...

From Academic Transfer : The Department of Public Law, Jurisprudence and Legal History at Tilburg University invites applications for the ...

[We have the following announcement of the program for the 13th Annual Conference of the Israeli History and Law Association , Monday, 12 T...

[We have the following announcement of the event, "John Marshall: His Landmark Cases and Legacy," which, as we have it from one of...

New from the University of North Carolina Press: Claiming Turtle Mountain's ConstitutionThe History, Legacy, and Future of a Tribal Nati...

Shaunnagh Dorsett, University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Law , has posted seven recent papers from his backlist on SSRN.

Shaunnagh Dorsett, University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Law , has published Juridical Encounters: Maori and the Colonial Courts 1840-...

We missed this one in 2015, when Thomas Lund  (University of Utah) published The Creation of the Common Law: The Medieval Year Books Decip...

“How U.S. Civil Rights Leaders' Human Rights Agenda Shaped the United Nations,” Howard Human and Civil Rights Law Review 1 (2016-2017):...

James Cleith Phillips , a PhD candidate at University of California, Berkeley, School of Law , and Sara White , the inaugural Corpus Lingui...

Barry Cushman, Notre Dame Law School , has posted Inside the "Constitutional Revolution" of 1937 , which appeared in the Supreme C...

Volume 35, No. 3 of the Law and History Review is now in print:  Articles Natural Rights Dissected and Rejected: John Lind's Coun...

Toronto ( credit ) The Law and Society Association 's Call for Papers (and panel proposals) is now out. The upcoming LSA will be in...

Scott D. Gerber, Ohio Northern University-Pettit College of Law , has posted Law and Catholicism in Colonial Maryland , which appears in the...

[ICYMI: Here's a pointer to my Georgetown Law colleague John Mikhail 's recent post on Balkinization, “Foreign-Born Framers.”] On t...

[We have the following announcement.] The BHC Doctoral Colloquium in Business History willbe held once again in conjunction with the 2018 ...

Antonia Eliason, University of Mississippi School of Law , has posted Lillian McMurry and the Blues Contracts of Trumpet Records , which is ...

New from Hart Publishing: Landmark Cases in Intellectual Property Law , edited by Jose Bellido , Senior Lecturer in Law at Kent Law School,...

In The Atlantic is a review of James Delbourgo's  Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum. The Guard...

James Q. Whitman , Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law, Yale University . presents The Two Primitive Modes of Imaginin...

My extracurricular activities include advising the Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit.  For that work, I would be gratef...

[We have the following announcement.] The Committee on Honors of the American Society for Legal History solicits nominations of senior sch...

[We have the following announcement from  Teresa Miguel-Stearns, Law Librarian and Professor of Law, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law S...

Charles L. Barzun, University of Virginia School of Law , has posted Justice Souter's Common Law , which is forthcoming in the Virginia ...

New from the University of Georgia Press: All for Civil Rights: Black Lawyers in South Carolina, 1868–1968 (July 2017), by W. Lewis Burke ...

Recently released by the University Press of Kansas: "A Great Power of Attorney": Understanding the Fiduciary Constitution (May 2...

My Georgetown Law colleague Sherally K. Munshi has posted Comparative Law and Decolonizing Critique , which appeared in the American Jo...

Jeffrey M. Schmitt, University of Dayton School of Law , has posted A Historical Reassessment of Congress's "Power to Dispose of&qu...

William W. Bratton, Penn Law , has published The Separation of Corporate Law and Social Welfare in the Washington & Lee Law Review : ...

Just out from Cambridge is EU Law Stories: Contextual and Critical Histories of European Jurisprudence , edited by Fernanda Nicola and Bill ...

[We have the following call for papers.] The Institute for Political History, the Journal of Policy History, and the Center for Political ...

Nathan A. Rosenberg, University of Arkansas School of Law , and Bryce Wilson Stucki, U.S. Census Bureau , have posted The Butz Stops Here: W...

John Greabe, University of New Hampshire School of Law , on Holmes’s “Bad Man of the Law” and President Donald J. Trump, in the Concord Moni...

Ross E. Davies, George Mason University,  Antonin Scalia Law School, has posted A Generous Judicial Parabolist: Curtis D. Wilbur, which ap...

David Fontana, George Washington University Law School , has posted Federal Decentralization , which is forthcoming in the Virginia Law Revi...