Legal History Blog

The Library of Congress has launched the Constitution Annotated , “the authoritative source for how the Supreme Court has interpreted th...

[We have word of the following exhibit at Yale’s Lilian Goldman Law Library , September 9 through December 19, 19, 2019, 127 Wall Street, Ne...

Just out from Hart is Free Hands and Minds: Pioneering Australian Legal Scholars , by Susan Bartie ,  Lecturer in Law at the U niversity of ...

The Legal History Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania has announced some fall workshop dates : Thursday, October 10: Professor D...

Harry Potter (barrister) has published Shades of the Prison House: A History of Incarceration in the British Isles with Boydell Press. Fr...

A Pedagogical Interlude Hello, from the bus between Boston and Portland, ME. This is my regular commute this semester while ...

[We share the following announcement.] The Legal History Workshop of Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law , moderated by Ron Harris, Dor...

Heroes, Rascals, and the Law: Constitutional Encounters in Mississippi History by James L. Robertson came out in 2018 with the University...

We're not sure when it was originally posted, but we just realized that the website of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History ...

We would like to alert LHB readers to two "pre-conference" symposia at the November 2019 annual meeting of the American Society fo...

Katherine Hermes, Central Connecticut State University , will present “Connecticut’s Indigenous People and Their Use of the Law,” on Septe...

Álvaro Calderón, United Nations -Foreign Direct Investment Unit, Vasiliki Fouka , Stanford University , and Marco Tabellini, Harvard Busines...

Jayanth K. Krishnan, Indiana University Maurer School of Law , has posted Bhopal in the Federal Courts: How Indian Victims Failed to Get Jus...

Christopher M. Roberts, Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law , has posted From the State of Emergency to the Rule of Law: The Evol...

Thoughts from the Trenches: How to Make the Longue Durée Manageable In 1967, the Lord Chamberlain’s Office refused to licen...