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New from Harvard University Press: the third volume of Bruce Ackerman 's We the People . From the Press: The Civil Rights Revoluti...

On March 28, David Konig, Washington University , will present the paper “Thomas Jefferson, Antislavery Lawyer” to the Early American Semina...

[We're moving this post up, as the deadline of April 1 is approaching.] [Via H-Law , we have...

Our friends at the Institute for Constitutional History have announced “Slavery and the Laws of War,...

In observance of Women's History Month, over at Gender and the Law Blog Tracy Thomas, Akron Law , has posted a reading list on women'...

Anders Walker, Saint Louis University School of Law , has posted The New Jim Crow? Recovering the Progressive Origins of Mass Incarceration,...

[Sign me up! Our friends at the Institute for Constitutional History have sent us an announcement for the Jordan Saunders Seminar in Constit...

This week the internet world of book reviews is light on legal history. But the Washington Post  has an engaging review of Myra MacPherson&...

As I mentioned in the conclusion of my last post, I thought I would share with LHB readers how I c...

Philip Girard Philip Girard (Osgoode Hall Law School), a recently named honorary fellow of the American Society for Legal History , is ...

The New-York Historical Society is offering a limited number of free tickets to the latest lecture in the Barnard and Irene Schwartz Disting...

Mary Stokes at the Canadian Legal History Blog encourages readers "interested in the history of norms and moral regulation, both legal...

Rabia Belt , a Research Academic Fellow at the Georgetown University Law Center , has posted When God Demands Blood: Unusual Minds and the T...

Thanks to Dan, Karen, and the rest of the folks at the Legal History Blog for inviting me to be a gu...

New from Cornell University Press: A Scrap of Paper: Breaking and Making International Law during the Great War , by Isabel V. Hull (Cornel...

Mary Pergola Parent (University of Notre Dame, Dept. of Film, Television & Theatre) and Kevin H. Govern (Ave Maria School of Law/Califo...

This is a joint announcement of the Cromwell Book Prize of the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation and the John Phillip Reid Book Award of th...

The Law & Politics Book Review is out with a new batch of reviews. Items of interest include: Kate Puddister (Department of Politica...

JOTWELL's legal history section has posted some new material : Angela Fernandez (University of Toronto) writes about her appreciation f...

The Chronicle of Higher Education occasionally rounds up new books in higher education. Here are some items of interest from the most recen...

Anne Fleming will be joining the law faculty of the Georgetown University Law Center this summer. ...

Legal Scholarship Blog has alerted us to the call for the conference Green Capitalism? Exploring the Crossroads of Environmental and Busine...

James Oakes , Distinguished Professor of History and Graduate School Humanities Professor, at the Gr...

Goodness: a 20 percent discount for LHB readers! First: the author and his book.  Ian Ward , a Pro...

Common-Place has a lengthy review of Nicholas P. Miller's The Religious Roots of the First Amendment: Dissenting Protestants and the ...

Joining us this month as Guest Blogger is Ajay K. Mehrotra , Professor of Law, Associate Dean for...

"Solano County [California] Superior Court officials are seeking historic items related to the...

Let me join Karen in thanking Bernard Hibbitts for as interesting a series of posts as any put up i...

Nova Scotians like myself are all too familiar with lifeboats. From our fishing villages and lighthouse stations they and their crews have l...

New from Harvard University Press: Justice Among Nations: A History of International Law (Feb. 2014), by Stephen C. Neff (University of Ed...

Lawyers like to think of themselves as a super-human lot. Dedicated to their clients and their causes, they take pride in performing their d...

Michel Morin (University of Montreal) has posted three new essays on SSRN . " The Discovery and Assimilation of British Constitution...

[ Via H-Law , we have a call for "Law and Revolution in Ireland: Law and Lawyers before, during, and after the Cromwellian Interregnum....