Legal History Blog

David Le Bris, BEM Bordeaux Management School , has posted Customary versus Civil Law within Old Regime France .  Here is the abstract: La...

Robin L. West (Georgetown University Law Center ) has posted " Toward a Jurisprudence of the Civil Rights Acts ." Here's the a...

As a torts professor and an historian of regulation, I was intrigued by this paper, but I imagine it may also interest those who study late-...

[ We're moving this up, as the deadline of December 15 is approaching.] Our friends at the Ins...

Maureen E. Brady , a Ph.D. in Law candidate at Yale , has posted Community Knowledge and Its Collapse: History of an Early American Property...

New from New York University Press: A Race So Different: Performance and Law in Asian America (2013), by Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson (No...

In a Legal History Blog post last summer, Tomiko Brown-Nagin noted the interesting exchange between Risa Goluboff’s " Lawyers, Law and ...

The Robert F. Kennedy Papers are now more fully open to the public, the Boston Globe  confirmed in an editorial  published this morning.  Et...

Patrick Weil's The Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization and the Origins of the American Republic  (University of Pennsylvania Press) is ...

The bloggers over at The Junto have put together a terrific roundtable on the legacy of Pauline Maier . Here are links to the contributions...

Earlier this week we noted the passing of beloved historian Michael G. Kammen . Over at the Historical Society , Randall Stephens has post...

 [Via H-Law we have news of an event at the Yale Law School relating to rare books in the law.] Brya...

We have word of “Finance in Religious Law: A Comparative Conference: Judaism, Christianity, Islam,” ...

The New England Quarterly Inc., the administrative governing board of The New England Quarterly , invites inquiries from individuals interes...

Nicholas R. Parrillo, Yale Law School , has posted The De-Privatization of American Warfare: How the...

Historian Marshall Poe , author of several highly respected books on Russian history, is also the creator of experiments in the use of ne...

The Social Science History Association has issued a Call for Papers for its 39th Annual Meeting , to be held November 6-9, 2014, in Toronto...

If you enjoyed Nicholas Parrillo 's recent posts and are interesting in being part of a more informal exchange about his work, head ove...

[We have the following CFP for a graduate student conference.] The Law in Action: Re-Thinking the Boundaries of Law and Society,  April 18...

Andrew McLeod, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford and University of Sydney Faculty of Law , has posted On the Origins of Consorting La...

Although we posted a pointer to Nicholas Parrillo ’s new article, Leviathan and Interpretive Revolution: The Administrative State, the Judic...

As a guy who spends a lot of time thinking about the New Deal, I was excited to learn that the Frank...

Stephen B. Burbank (University of Pennsylvania Law School) and Sean Farhang (University of California, Berkeley) have posted " Litig...

[We have the following call from the Chairs of the ASLH Program Committee.] The 2014 meeting of th...

Christopher L. Tomlins, University of California, Irvine School of Law , has posted Law ‘And’, Law ‘In’, Law ‘As’: The Definition, Rejection...

Tom Ginsburg (University of Chicago Law School), Nick Foti (University of Washington - Department of Statistics), and Daniel Rockmore (Dar...

In a recent interview about her new book on Benjamin Franklin’s sister , Harvard history professor and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore ...

The latest issue of the Journal of the Civil War Era commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation . Here's the ...

Via the Organization of American Historians , we have learned of the death of historian Michael G. Kammen : The OAH is saddened to learn o...

The Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society has opened a new “gallery” in its “virtual museum”: The Mechanics of Legislation: ...

The Center for the United States and the Cold War at New York University announces the seminar “An ‘Iron Curtain of the West’: Ideological E...

Sujit Raman has posted " Felix Frankfurter and the 'Happy Hot Dogs': A Case Study in Personality and Influence ." It is f...

Liam Séamus O'Melinn, Ohio Northern University , has posted Our Discrete and Insular Founders: American "Degeneracy" and the B...

We are enormously pleased to welcome as a guest blogger for the month of December, Susan D. Carle , ...

Thank you, Nicholas R. Parrillo, Yale Law School , our guest blogger for November, for three terrifically interesting posts: on his new book...

Sara Mayeux has written a thoughtful review of Susannah Sheffer's Fighting for Their Lives: Inside the Experience of Capital Defense At...

From the Historical Society: The Slave Trade, 1885: George S. Boutwell Writes Home About His Legal Cases . 50 Years After New York Times...

On Monday, December 2, at 4 pm, Columbia University’s Mae Ngai will present “Yellow and Gold: Chinese Gold Miners and the 'Chinese Quest...