Legal History Blog

John Q. Barrett, St. John's Law , has posted his edition of Robert H. Jackson ’s previously unpublished essay, The Faith of My Father s,...

The latest issue (2:4) of The Docket is out, with Sally Hadden on Digital Tools for Legal History Research , Sara Kimble on “Masculine T...

Kara W. Swanson, Northeastern University School of Law , has posted Race and Selective Legal Memory: Reflections on Invention of a Slave , w...

 [We have the following from our friends at the Boston College Law School.  DRE] We invite you to join us Thursday, January 30, at 4:30 in...

As I’m joined by my colleague and fellow historian of Peru, Judith Mansilla, for the next two blog posts, we bring in another voice to harm...

Jodie Boyd, RMIT University , and Ian Ramsay and Paul Ali , Melbourne Law School , have posted "Contrary to the Spirit of the Age&quo...

Via the New Books Network (New Books in Law), we have word of the publication of Modern Things on Trial: Islam’s Global and Material Refor...

[The Washington History Seminar has announced its lineup for Spring 2020.  It meets Mondays (unless noted above) at 4:00 pm in the Woodrow ...

Emily Whewell, a  Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History , has published Law across imperial borders: Bri...

Oxford University Press (in partnership with Edinburgh University Press) has released Wrongful Damage to Property in Roman Law: British Per...

My Georgetown Law colleague Philip G. Schrag , has just published Baby Jails The Fight to End the Incarceration of Refugee Children in Amer...

[In a reminder that service to the discipline ought not be a life sentence, we have the following announcement, concerning the Law & His...

In a terrific book about notaries in colonial Cuzco, Peru, Kathryn Burns reminds us how frequently official writers distorted, left blank, ...

Assaf Likhovski, Tel Aviv University Buchmann Faculty of Law , has posted A Colonial Legal Laboratory? Jurisprudential Innovation in the Bri...

New from Harvard University Press: Criminal Dissent: Prosecutions under the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 (Jan. 2020), by Wendell Bird (...

Legal scholars and historians on the uproar over changes to India's citizenship laws: read this by Shubhankar Dam ,  this by Rohit D...

By: Rahela Khorakiwala, an independent scholar based in Mumbai, India, has published From the Colonial to the Contemporary: Images, Iconogra...

What is the historical relationship between law and writing, legality and literacy? As a guest blogger whose work centers primarily on colo...

Sarath Sanga, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law , has posted On the Origins of the Market for Corporate Law : I study the or...

Out now from Hart: English Legal Histories , by Ian Ward , Professor of Law, Newcastle University : English Legal Histories is an exciti...

Today’s Washington Post includes the story, “ The surreal lives of 2020 campaign spouses: What happens when your loved one wants to be pres...

Angus McClellan, Claremont Graduate University , has posted Early Women's Rights Activists and the Meaning of the 14th Amendment : The...

[We noted the following on H-Announce .  DRE] Pioneer African Women in Law Project (PAWLP) Women across the continent of Africa have his...

My Georgetown Law colleague John Mikhail has posted Fixing Implied Constitutional Powers in the Founding Era , revision and extension of h...

New from Oxford University Press: Literature and Law in the Era of Magna Carta (Dec. 2019), by Jennifer Jahner (California Institute of Tec...

Julian Davis Mortenson and Nicholas Bagley, University of Michigan Law School , have posted Delegation at the Founding : This article ref...

New from Harvard University Press: Pollution, Politics, and Power: The Struggle for Sustainable Electricity , by Thomas O. McGarity (Univer...

[We have the following call for the 2020 annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History in Chicago.  As mentioned below, those ...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] Call for Submissions:  Preyer Award. American Society for Legal History Submissions are welcome...

I am so grateful that Mitra invited me to be the guest blogger during this first month of the new year and decade.  If I understand corre...

Rebecca Scott ( University of Michigan ) and Carlos Venegas Fornias ( Instituto Cubano de Investigación Cultural Juan Marinello, La Haban...

New from Harvard University Press: Laying Down the Law: The American Legal Revolutions in Occupied Germany and Japan , by R. W. Kostal (Wes...

We are very pleased to have Professor Bianca Premo ( Florida International University )  join us as our first guest blogger of the new dec...

We are happy to have had Professor David S. Schwartz (University of Wisconsin) join us as our last guest blogger of the decade. Here are h...

V. Venkatraman, Rajapalayam Rajus’ College , has posted Implementation of Press Legislations and Political Control Over the Writings of the ...

Brian Slattery, York University-Osgoode Hall Law School , has posted Aboriginal Title and the Royal Proclamation of 1763: Origins and Illusi...

[by David Schwartz, guest blogger] The prevailing version of originalism—known as “original public meaning” (OPM) o...