Legal History Blog

The Library of Congress recently announced the launch of the Foreign Law Web Archive , with a collection period commencing June 20, 2016....

Laura Spitz, University of New Mexico School of Law , has posted More or Less Human: Colonialism, Common Law, and the Social Construction of...

A multi-volume publication, The Persecution and Murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 is being published by De Gruyter Ol...

Christopher W. Schmidt, Chicago-Kent College of Law and American Bar Foundation , has posted Originalism and Congressional Power to Enforce...

Via a Yale Law School press release , we have word that the Social Science History Association has awarded the Presidents Book Award to Yale...

Via a University of Virginia School of Law press release , we have the following news: Professor Maureen “Molly” Brady of the University ...

New from the University of Pennsylvania Press: Ensuring Poverty: Welfare Reform in Feminist Perspective (Nov. 2018), by Felicia Kornbluh (U...

[We have the following announcement from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the ASLH.] The 2018 Stein Book Award winner is Fahad A. Bishara,...

A highlight of the ASLH annual meeting is the naming of the new Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars . About the award: Named after the late Kathryn...

Justice Douglas en famille , 1939 ( LC ) Joshua Kastenberg, University of New Mexico School of Law , has posted Safeguarding Judicial In...

At this year's annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History , President Sally Gordon announced the election results . The ...

Have you signed up for Advance Alerts for the American Journal of Legal History ?  Articles appearing on-line since November 8 are: Law Ev...

[We have the following call for papers.] White Slavery in Transnational and International Context, 1880-1950 .  June 21, 2019, University ...

Patrick S. O’Donnell , bibliographer extraordinaire, has posted Islam & Jurisprudence (or, ‘Islamic Law’): A Basic Bibliography .  As he...

Jayanth K. Krishnan, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, has posted The Dubai International Financial Centre Courts: A Retrospective ...

At the Marginalia Review of Books is a review of  The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 , edited by Lorna Hutson. ...

Christoph Rosenmüller, Middle Tennessee State University , has posted Two Kingdoms in a Multi-Tiered Empire: New Spain and New Galicia in th...

Kenneth Reid, University of Edinburgh School of Law , has posted Testamentary Freedom and Family Protection in Scotland : In a sense, test...

Felix Lange, Humboldt University of Berlin , has posted Between Systematization and Expertise for Foreign Policy: The Practice-Oriented Appr...

Rohit De, Yale University, has published A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic with Princeton Uni...

Amanda Scardamaglia, Swinburne University of Technology , has posted A Legal History of Lithography , which appeared in (2017) Griffith Law ...

[We have the following announcement.]   The Institute for Constitutional History is pleased to announce another seminar for advanced gradua...