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Katrina Jagodinsky, University of Nebraska-Lincoln , will be addressing the Department ofHistory and School of Law at the University of Oreg...

Brent Skorup, Cato Institute , has posted The Korematsu Era: The Restructuring of Government Power, 1942–1948 : This paper argues that the ...

[We've recently had our attention drawn to this important collection at the Biddle Law Library of the Penn Carey Law School.  DRE] In Oc...

William E. Forbath, University of Texas at Austin School of Law , and Joseph Fishkin, UCLA Law School , have posted Anti-Oligarchy, Anti-Aut...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE]  Registration now open for the Bentham House: Queering Private Law Conference  [sponsored by the]...

We have word of The Fine Script , a conference exploring comparative approaches to legal marginalia circulating in Europe and the Middle Eas...

This is the 15,000th post on Legal History Blog.  No less than at its founding by Mary Dudziak almost twenty years ago, it remains committe...

Jason Mazzone, University of Illinois College of Law , has posted The Unitary Executive and the Decisions of 1789 and 1861 , which appears i...

K. Chris Todd and James M. Thunder  have privately published, with the sponsorship of the Historical Society of the District of Columbia Ci...

"On the 250th anniversary of America’s independence, Harvard Law historian and legal scholar Bruce H. Mann argues that colonists were ...

Alexander Zhang, University of Texas School of Law , has posted Directly Constitutional Statutory Interpretation , which is forthcoming in t...

James Gray Pope, Rutgers Law School , has posted Economic Class and the Original Meanings of the U.S. Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments :...

David Gindis, University of Warwick Law School , and Steven G. Medema, Duke University , have posted Henry Manne, Pareto in the Pines, and t...

 [We have the following announcement, via H-Law .  DRE] The University of Glasgow School of Law invites applications from PhD students in Ro...

Federal History 18 (2026) has been published .  Here is the TOC: Editor's Note   Benjamin Guterman Roger R. Trask Lecture “Girl From th...

The Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit is hosting a series of reenactments relating to the Scooter Libby trial.  Hree is...

Kathleen Claussen, Georgetown Law , and Timothy Meyer, Duke Law , have published The Foreign Commerce Power in the California Law Review : ...

José Argueta Funes, UC Berkeley Law, has published The "Code American" and Law's Empire , a review of Kellen Funk’s Law’s Mac...

From In Custodia Legis: A Brief Legislative History of the U.S.-Canadian Border  and Nathan Dorn on James Wilson and Natural Law in the Fir...

Josh Blackman, South Texas College of Law Houston , has posted A Historical Record of Special Counsels Before Watergate : This Article prese...

Julia Rudolph, North Carolina State University , has published William Blackstone, Family Man: New Contexts in Gender, Jurisprudence, and Ja...

Mujinga Pathou Petipeti, University of Kinshasa Faculty of Law , has published The Formation of the State in the Democratic Republic of the ...

Dieter Grimm has published Constitutional Effectiveness: The Case of Germany's Basic Law with Hart/Bloomsbury: This book presents a un...

Maria Ponomarenko, University of Texas Law , has posted Revisiting Presidential Reorganization , which is forthcoming in the George Washingt...

Reva B. Siegel (Yale Law School) and Mary Ziegler  (University of California, Davis) have posted Dismantling Equality Rights Through "B...

Daniel DeFraia has published " The Branzburg myth: how secrecy and law distort history and misinform policy " online, open-acces...

The workshop Disabilities and Women in Ancient Rome: Legal, Social and Cultural Perspectives will be held at the University of Helsinki Mai...

Haris Durrani (Harvard University) has posted " Industrial Patent Law ," which is forthcoming in Volume 104 of the Washington Univ...

Steven A. Bank, UCLA School of Law , has published  High Rates and Low Taxes: Tax Dodging in Mid-Century America   (Cambridge University Pre...

Elizabeth Papp Kamali on " Charles Donahue : Man, Magister, Inimitable Scholar" ( Harvard Law Bulletin ).   The HLS Library has ...

Christen Hammock Jones,  a Ph.D. candidate in History at the  University of Pennsylvania , and Karen M. Tani (University of Pennsylvania) ha...

Marco Basile, Boston College Law School, has posted Old Textualism, New Juristocrac y, which is forthcoming in the New York University Law ...

Forthcoming from the Cambridge University Press: In Congress We Trust? Enforcing Voting Rights from the Founding to the Jim Crow Era by Fra...

[We have the following announcement from Merrilee Proffitt of Democracy's Library.  DRE] Thanks to a generous gift of materials from th...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] The Raoul Berger-Mark DeWolf Howe Legal History Fellowship for 2026-2027 at Harvard Law School h...

On Tuesday, April 28, 15:00-16:30, Helsinki time, which is seven hours ahead of EDT, Karolina Stenlund , a lecturer at the Faculty of Law at...

[We have the following announcement from Emily Prifogle, Secretary of the American Society for Legal History .  DRE.] We are happy to announ...

Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College Law School , delivers the 2026 Maurice and Muriel Fulton Lecture at the University of Chicago Law School ...