Legal History Blog

The British Legal History Conference 2015 has issued the following Call for Papers : Conference Venue: School of Law, University of Read...

Lyman Johnson (Washington and Lee University - School of Law; University of St. Thomas, St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN - School of Law) has poste...

Via John Q. Barrett ’s Jackson List , we have the YouTube link to Akhil Reed Amar 's delivery of the tenth annual Robert H. Jackson Lect...

We missed this one back in December: Mario Cajas-Sarria (Universidad Icesi Facultad de Derecho) has posted " Alfonso López Pumarejo and...

There's plenty to read this weekend. Gordon Wood reviews   Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of E...

Ralph Brubaker, University of Illinois College of Law , has posted Justice Story, Bankruptcy Injunctions, and the Anti-Injunction Act of 179...

[We have the following from Edward J. Balleisen , Associate Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University , which follows up on ...

Out recently from Cambridge University Press in the ASLH-sponsored book series, Studies in Legal His...

Adam Mossoff, George Mason University School of Law , has posted the introduction to his Intellect...

Evan C. Zoldan, University of Toledo College of Law , has posted The "Professional" Meaning of the Ex Post Facto Clauses .  Here i...

No Foundations ("an interdisciplinary journal of law and justice")has issued the following call for submissions: No Foundation...

President Obama recently announced the 2013 winners of the National Humanities Medal. The medals recognize those whose work has “deepene...

Hugo Black, 1937 ( LC ) For years, anyone who wanted to consult the papers of Supreme Court Just...

New from the University Press of Mississippi: The Southern Manifesto: Massive Resistance and the Fight to Preserve Segregation , by John Ky...

[We have the following from our faithful reader Josiah Daniel, a lawyer at Vinson & Elkins who c...

Gregory Semenza's (U Conn-English) recent post about how to make time for writing caught my eye. In a Chronicle of Higher Education col...

[Via the Canadian Legal History Blog, we have the following Call for Papers:] Remaking North American Sovereignty: Towards a Continental ...

Over at War Time , LHB founder Mary Dudziak (Emory University) has been running a series of posts titled " A Legal History Survival Gu...

Congratulations to former LHB Guest Blogger Ajay Mehrotra, Indiana University Maurer School of Law ,...

And now a post from our advice columnist in residence, Ms. Peppercorn : Ms. Peppercorn has some apologies due to a correspondent who wro...

This week over at Balkinization , Mark Graber reviews Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places: Why State Constitutions Contain America...

[From the Columbus, Indiana, Republic .] A number of judges and lawyers honored U.S. Rep. John Conyers in a ceremony Friday, thanking the 85...

Via @LHR_editor and ESCLH we have the following call for papers for “Law: Challenges to Authority and the Recognition of Rights," the ...

Jeffrey K. Sawyer (University of Baltimore School of Law) has posted " English Law and American Democracy in the Revolutionary Republi...

Rosemary Coombe, York University, has been posting her backlist on SSRN.  Two articles of special interest to legal historians.  The first...

John Leubsdorf, Rutgers-Newark Law School , has posted Preponderance of the Evidence: Some History .  Here is the abstract: Although much ...

New from the University of North Carolina Press: With Malice Toward Some: Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era , by William A. Blair (Pe...

New from our friends at Qud Pro Books is a reissue of another “Classic in Law and Society,” The Roos...

The annual meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) convenes this week (July 17-20) in Philadelphia. He...

A recording of "The Honor and Burden of Being First: Judge Constance Baker Motley,” Tomiko Brown-Nagin ’s Fulton Lecture, delivered at ...

I don't believe we've noticed the publication of the 2013 volume of the Australia & New ...

A tweet from @LHR_editor tells us the next issue of Law and History Review is available now as a series of “First View Articles on Cambrid...

New from Hill & Wang: On Democracy's Doorstep: The Inside Story of How the Supreme Court Brought "One Person, One Vote" to...

Heidi J. Rickes, whom I gather is a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , has posted Jurisprudence at Davidson Colle...

[Thank you, LHB Founder Mary Dudziak, for drawing our attention to the call for papers for 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Military ...

n+1 has an online review by Maggie Gram that asks “ Did the Civil Rights Act change the Constitution? ” Three books are examined in the pie...