Legal History Blog

Mark Hanna has published From Claudette Colvin’s expectation to bus desegregation in Browder v Gayle in the American Journal of Legal His...

Benjamin Keener, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School , and Keith E. Whittington ,  Yale Law School , have posted Demystifying Birthr...

David R. Upham, St. Thomas University College of Law , has published Taking American Citizenship Seriously: The Recovery of the Fourteenth A...

Joy Milligan, University of California, Berkeley Law School , has posted The Constitution of Racial Repair: A Reconstructed History , which ...

Michael E. Solimine, University of Cincinnati College of Law , and Michelle Brodersen , a 2025 graduate of the University of Cincinnati Coll...

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

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

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

Over at JOTWELL, we've noticed several reviews of interest: Maya Manian (American University Washington College of Law)  wrote about Az...

Tikia K. Hamilton,  Loyola University Chicago,  has published Nothing Less Than Equality: The Battle over Segregated Education in the Nation...

An alarming opinion of the Office of Legal Counsel of the US Department of Justice advising White House Counsel that the Presidential Recor...

Ross Dardani , Muhlenberg College , has published, open access, The Influence of Fourteenth Amendment Jurisprudence and the Universal Declar...

Keith E. Whittington, Yale Law School , and James Heilpern , who is Counsel at Schaerr Jaffe, LLP, where he specializes in complex litigatio...

Thomas H. Lee, Fordham University School of Law , has posted The Citizenship Clause's Residence Requirement : The debate about President...

Kurt Lash, University of Richmond School of Law , has posted The Allegiance Reading of the Citizenship Clause and Its Critics: A Response : ...

The Asian Legal History Association  has hosted its official launch in Hong Kong ( The Standard ).  The speech of the Secretary for Justice,...

The official date is still about a week hence, but because the book is already getting noticed in social media, we’ll note now the imminent ...

My Georgetown Law colleague John Mikhail has posted Birthright Citizenship, Unwritten Constitutionalism, and the Nature of the Union , whi...

Ely Samuel Parker, seated at left ( LC ) Ely Samuel Parker , "a member of the Senecans," was admitted to the New York State Bar, 1...

Amanda Frost, University of Virginia School of Law , and her UVA law student, Emily Eason , have posted The Dog That Didn't Bark: Eligib...