Legal History Blog

ASLH President (and former Legal History Blog co-moderator)  Mitra Sharafi discusses her new book, Fear of the False: Forensic Science and...

[Via H-Law , we have the following CFP.  DRE] Call for Proposals: The Seventh Biennial Conference of the International Society for Chinese L...

 [We have the following announcement .  DRE] On June 24, 2026 (at 12pm Eastern), join us for an international workshop featuring contributor...

[We have the following announcement from the ASLH.  DRE.] The American Society for Legal History (ASLH) is delighted to announce a new diss...

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

Benjamin Schonthal, University of Otago , has published Courts, Constitutions and Karma Buddhism, Law and the Practices of Legal Pluralism i...

[We have the following CFP.  DRE] The Faculty of Law, Multimedia University, Malaysia is organizing the Sixth Asian Legal History Conference...

Among the  prizes and awards announced at the recent meeting of the American Historical Association  was the  John K. Fairbank Prize in Eas...

 [We have the following CFP.  DRE.] Call for Papers – Legal History in Asia and Beyond: Lessons from the Past for the Present The Transnatio...

Irit Ballas and Arik Moran have published General Will or Public Order? The Debate on Criminal Justice Policy in Early Colonial Himalaya, ...

[Our friends at Michigan Law have sent us the lineup in its Legal History Workshop in the upcoming semester.  DRE] February 5.  Session 3. ...

We have the following call for papers , for the 5th Asian Legal History Conference : Doshisha University, with the support of the Centre for...

American Journal of Legal History 64:1 (March 2024) is now published online . The Pennsylvania Council of Censors and the Debate on the Gua...

[Via H-Law , we have the following CFP.  DRE] Law, colonialism and gender in the Muslim world This conference aims to bring together scholar...

Jedidiah J. Kroncke, University of Hong Kong, has posted Suspended in Empire: The Imperial Legacies of American Territorial Labor : On the ...

[We have the following CFP .  DRE] Call for Papers – The 4th Asian Legal History Conference The University of Law – Hue University, with the...

Law and History Review 41:3 (August 2023) has been published.  It is a special issue, “Paper Empires: Layers of Law in Colonial South Asia...

Taisu Zhang, Yale Law School, has published The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation: Belief Systems, Politics, and Institutions (Cambr...

Reva Siegel, YLS , on Dobbs and the Politics of Constitutional Memory on Balkinization .  Also, here .  Stanford Law School has a report o...

 [We have the following Call for Papers .  DRE] The Transnational Legal History Group of CUHK LAW’s Centre for Comparative and Transnational...