Legal History Blog

[Longtime LHB readers will recall that for the exam in my legal history course at Georgetown Law i write an essay about some regulatory regi...

Over at Consource, Richard B. Bernstein has posted a memorial of the documentary editor Gaspare J. Saladino , who died last week.  It comme...

Our friends at the Federal Judicial Center have posted the latest in the Center’s series of teaching materials on Famous Federal Trials....

Lionel Smith, McGill University, Faculty of Law , has posted Equity is Not a Single Thing , which is forthcoming from the Oxford University ...

Andrew Forsyth , assistant secretary for student life at Yale University , has published Common Law and Natural Law in America: From the Pur...

Elizabeth Rosenblatt, University of California, Davis , has posted "What One Man Can Invent Another Can Discover": The British Pat...

Arvind Elangovan, Wright State University published "Constitutionalism as Discipline: Benegal Shiva Rao and the Forgotten Histories o...

Paul Horwitz, University of Alabama School of Law , has posted A Close Reading of Barnette , in Honor of Vincent Blasi , which appears in th...

Out later this year from the University of North Carolina Press (but available for pre-order now): Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real E...

Rod Thomas, Auckland University of Technology Faculty of Business & Law , has posted Constructive Trusts up to Lord Eldon - A Consent Is...

William Michael Treanor, Georgetown University  Law Center , has posted Framer’s Intent: Gouverneur Morris, the Committee of Style, and the ...

Joseph A. Ranney, Marquette University Law School has published A Legal History of Mississippi: Race, Class, and the Struggle for Opportun...

[We are moving this up because the deadline of May 15 will soon be upon us.  DRE] We have the following announcement of an Interdisciplin...

The Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit is holding another of its reenactments of historic cases.  On June 13, 2019, it...

My latest, "The Shallow State: The Federal Communications Commission and the New Deal,"  University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] The American Society for Legal History will host a Student  Research Colloquium (SRC) on Wednes...

Michael Klarman devoted his talk in HLS ’s “Last Lectures” series to Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whose lawyering, he said...

Alasdair S. Roberts, University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Public Policy , has posted Bearing the White Man's Burden: American E...

[We have received the following query from the managing editor of Talbot Publishing.  DRE] Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes ( LC ) As pub...

The most practical course I took in grad school was Writing History with Marni Sandweiss, where I learned how to use narrative as a mode of ...

New from Foundation Press, in the "Law Stories" Series, Reproductive Rights and Justice Stories , edited by Melissa Murray (NYU L...

[The “interest group” of the European Society of International Law Annual (ESIL) on the History of International Law has sent us the followi...

[We have the following announcement.] The Program in Law and History at Harvard Law School is pleased to announce that the Raoul Berger-M...

Reminder: the  American Journal of Legal History seeks applications for  US Editor-in-Chief . The Press and the current editor will begin re...

[We have the following conference announcement and call for papers.] Western University Faculty of Law in London, ON Canada will be hosti...

April J. Anderson has posted Peremptory Challenges at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century: Development of Modern Jury Selection Strategies ...

We have the following announcement (note the May 31 deadline): The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Article prize is awarded annually fo...

David S. Schwartz, University of Wisconsin Law School , has posted Coin, Currency, and Constitution: Reconsidering the National Bank Precede...

John C. Harrison, University of Virginia School of Law , has posted Public Rights, Private Privileges, and Article III , which is forthcomin...

John Rothchild, Wayne State University Law School, has posted How the United States Stopped Being a Pirate Nation and Learned to Love Inter...

Patrick Newman, Florida Southern College , has posted another installment of his research on the politics of meat inspection, Public Intere...

When I learned that the academic book market had changed, my goals shifted too. Of course, the essence of the project remained the same. Pol...

[We have the following announcement.] Registration is now open [ here ] for the 2019 ASLH annual meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, Novembe...

If you'd like to see how legal historians' scholarship figured in the recently decided Emoluments Clause decision Blumenthal v. Tr...

Mae C. Quinn, University of Florida Levin College of Law , has posted Fallen Woman (Re)framed: Judge Jean Hortense Norris, New York City - 1...