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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Mayeri, "Marital Privilege: Marriage, Inequality, and the Transformation of American Law"

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Yale University Press has published  Marital Privilege: Marriage, Inequality, and the Transformation of American Law , by Serena Mayeri (Uni...

JAEH: Special Issue on Immigration and Citizenship

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The special issue (44:4) of the Journal of American Ethnic History devoted to Immigration and Citizenship , edited by Hardeep Dhillon and ...
Monday, July 7, 2025

Mass SCJ Records Transcribed

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The Ames Foundation , with the financial support of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts , has been transcribing the twenty-two volumes of ...
Saturday, July 5, 2025

Weekend Roundup

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Northwestern Law has a post on the grants Ajay K. Mehrotra received in support of his book project, “American Outlier: Economic Inequalit...
Friday, July 4, 2025

Brady on "Public Use" in State Constitutions

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Maureen E. Brady, Harvard Law School , has posted Debates Over "Public Use" in the State Constitutional Conventions : Historians a...
Thursday, July 3, 2025

Job Posting: Berkeley Law's Jurisprudence & Social Policy Program Seeks Applications for an Assistant Professor of Law and History

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 We have the following job posting : The Jurisprudence and Social Policy (JSP) PhD Program in the School of Law at the University of Calif...

JAH 112:1

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 [The June 2025 issue of the Journal of American History is chock full of legal history.  We reprodcue its “In This Issue.”  DRE.] M. Scott...

Katz on Minor v. Happersett

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Ellen D. Katz, University of Michigan Law School , has posted Minor v. Happersett and the Repudiation of Universal Suffrage : Minor v. Happ...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Legal History in the Curriculum

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New from Routledge: Legal History in the Curriculum: Comparative Perspectives, Critical Approaches and Future Directions , edited By Carolin...

New in Touro: Calabresi, Emoluments, and Steven Duke

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There's quite a bit of legal history in the current issue ( 40:2 ) of the Touro Law Review .   Roger Newman reviews of Guido Calabresi...
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Watkins on BYU's Moral Policing

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Grace Watkins , a recent graduate from the Yale Law School and a DPhil student in History at Oxford University has published her note, Piety...

Bernstein on the Court, Education and the KKK

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David E Bernstein, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School , has published The Supreme Court, Education, and the KKK in the 1920s ...
Monday, June 30, 2025

William E. Leuchtenburg Fund at UNC Press

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[We have the following announcement .  H/t: JQB.  DRE] Established in 2025 by his family, the William E. Leuchtenburg Fund at the University...

Engelking on Kant, Kelsen and International Law

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Wojciech Engelking, University of Warsaw, has published How Kantian is Kelsen’s Early Theory of International Law? in Law and History Revie...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

McMahon to Lecture on History of Tax Protests

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Stephanie H. McMahon, Indiana University Maurer School of Law , will deliver America’s Love/HateRelationship with Tax Protests , the 2025 Ha...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Weekend Roundup

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Like us, you might have heard something about limited access to the collections at the National Archives, College Park .  Here is the lates...
Friday, June 27, 2025

Klaaren on Law under Apartheid

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Jonathan Klaaren, University of the Witwatersrand , has posted Law under Apartheid , which is forthcoming in the unfortunately timely Oxford...

Tillman on Citing Bellesiles

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Seth Barrett Tillman, National University of Ireland Faculty of Law, has posted A Phenomenon in Search of a Theory/Recent Citations to Mich...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Bessler on the Forgotten Origins of "Cruel and Unusual Punishments"

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[We're moving this up, because the article is now out in the British Journal of American Legal Studies . DRE] John D. Bessler, Univers...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

CFP: Invisible Actors in the Making of International Law, 1750-2000

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Via H-Net, we have the following CFP : Invisible Actors in the Making of International Law, 1750-2000 (Sciences Po Paris, 27–28 November 202...

Brown & Vanatta, "Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America"

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New from Princeton University Press:   Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America   (2025), by  Peter Conti-Bro...
Monday, June 23, 2025

Bernstein's Very Short Introduction to Alexander Hamilton

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We were surprised, moved, but also pleased to see the posthumous publication of R. B. Bernstein’s Alexander Hamilton: A Very Short Introduct...
Saturday, June 21, 2025

Weekend Roundup

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Salutations to the participants in the J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History of the American Society for Legal History , which...
Friday, June 20, 2025

Grossman and Friedman on History, Tradition and Abortion

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The second of today’s HAT posts is Joanna L. Grossman, SMU-Dedman School of Law , and Lawrence M. Friedman, Stanford Law School , The Quic...

Blocher and Siegel on History, Tradition and Guns

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It’s “history and tradition” (HAT) Friday.  Our first post is Joseph Blocher, Duke University School of Law , and Reva Siegel, Yale Law Scho...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

US History through Its Assassinations

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Mark Jones , professor emeritus of criminal justice and criminology, East Carolina University, has published A History of the United States ...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Forum on Wang's "Making of Felony Procedure"

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[We have word from the Modern Criminal Law Review of From Treason to Trump: Felony’s Medieval Origins and Modern Resilience , a forum on El...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Primus's "Oldest Constitutional Question"

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Richard Primus, University of Michigan Law School , has published The Oldest Constitutional Question: Enumeration and Federal Power (Harvar...

Dudziak's "Cold War Civil Rights"

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Congratulations to LHB Founder Mary Dudziak on the publication of a new edition of her landmark book, Cold War Civil Rights (Princeton Uni...
Monday, June 16, 2025

Smith Student Writing Prize in California Legal History

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[We are moving up this previously posted call for submissions for this student writing prize because the due date is now July 15 .  DRE] The...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

Weekend Roundup

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Notre Dame Law ’s notice of its two prize winners at the recent annual meeting of the Supreme Court Historical Society, Barry Cushman and ...
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