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Richard A. Danner, Duke University School of Law , has posted Influences of the Digest Classification System: What Can We Know? , which also...

We don’t review books here at Legal History Blog, but we also don’t complain when publishers send us...

Talbot Publishing has announced the publication of The Origins of Western Law from Athens to the Cod...

New from Palgrave Macmillan: Pathways to the Supreme Court: From the Arena to the Monastery (Dec. 2013), by Garrison Nelson (University of V...

Another announcement from our friends at the Canadian Legal History Blog: The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History invites nominati...

Via the Canadian Legal History Blog, we have the following fellowship announcement : The R. Roy McMurtry Fellowship in Canadian Legal His...

New from Penn State University Press: The Fight for Status and Privilege in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile, 1465–1598 , by Michael J...

James E. Pfander and Daniel D. Birk, Northwestern University School of Law , have posted Article III Judicial Power, the Adverse-Party Requ...

Suja A. Thomas, University of Illinois College of Law , has posted Blackstone's Curse: The Fall...

Beth A. Colgan (Stanford Law School) has posted " Reviving the Excessive Fines Clause ," which appears in Volume 102, no. 2 of th...

"The New Man on the Job" ( LC ) Former Guest Blogger Ajay Mehrotra's op-ed: The Lo...

This one looks fascinating, especially for fans of The Metaphysical Club .  Frederic R. Kellogg, Geo...

Sarah Krakoff (University of Colorado Law School) has posted " Constitutional Concern, Membership, and Race ," which is forthcomin...

Courtesy: Office of the Curator, US Supreme Court When U.S. Supreme Justice James McReynolds...

[We have the following press release from the Organization of American Historians about former LHB G...

Corinna Lain, University of Richmond School of Law , has posted God, Civic Virtue, and the American Way: Reconstructing Engel , which is for...

Hugh D. Spitzer, University of Washington School of Law , has posted Pivoting to Progressivism: Justice Stephen J. Chadwick, the Washington ...

Just out from the Cambridge University Press is The Fourteenth Amendment and the Privileges and Immu...

Chris Bryant's Parliament: the Biography, Vol. 1  (Doublday) is reviewed in the New Statesman . "Bryant’s volume runs from this p...

The University of Pennsylvania has announced that legal historian Wendell E. Pritchett (currently the Chancellor of Rutgers University-Cam...

I want to highlight two upcoming events in the 2014 Leon Silverman Lecture Series of the Supreme Court Historical Society .  First, on May ...

Daniel M. Klerman, University of Southern California Law School , has posted Economic Analysis of Legal History , which is forthcoming in Me...

Tax Day looms up again, and with it renewed interest in the history of taxation.  Just up on The Life of the Law is a podcast that includes...

New from the University of North Carolina Press: Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town , by Ellen Griffith...

Mary L. Clark , Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, at the American University Washin...

According to today's New York Times , among this year's recipients of John Simon Guggenheim ...

The Law & Politics Book Review is out with a new batch of reviews. Items of interest include: Mark Rush (Washington and Lee Univers...

New from the University of Minnesota Press: Health Rights Are Civil Rights: Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963–1978 , by Jena L...

Samuel Nelson ( LC ) Ross E. Davies, George Mason University School of Law , has posted Pioneer ...

[Many thanks to Lael Weinberger, University of Chicago , for culling the following legal history sessions from the program of this week’s an...

Published recently in Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law is Balancing Constitutional Rights: Th...