Legal History Blog

GW Law announces a public event on a certain alumnus, J. Edgar Hoover (LL.B. 1916; LL.M. 1917).  Professor of Practice Jonathan Cedarbaum ...

 [We have the following announcement. DRE] The Legal History Section of the Society of Legal Scholars and LSE’s Legal Biography Project ar...

New from Harvard University Press: Battling Bella: The Protest Politics of Bella Abzug , by Leandra Ruth Zarnow (University of Houston). A ...

Back in June 2018, when Mitra Sharafi invited me to be a guest blogger for a month, she mentioned, among other things, that she would lo...

Thurgood Marshall ( LC ) Ross E. Davies, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School , has posted Five Little Lessons in Lawyering...

[We’ve received the following announcement of the conference Key Biographies in the Legal History of European Union, 1950-1993 , to take pla...

Brief Lives , Laura Kalman 's review essay of Owen Fiss 's Pillars of Justice: Lawyers and the Liberal Tradition (Harvard Universit...

We’ve learned of two events sponsored or co-sponsored by the Supreme Court Historical Society. On Thursday, February 15, 2018 at 3:30 PM, ...

Out this month from Penguin Random House is Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times , by Joel Richard Paul: No member...

Ann Sandford , independent, has published Reluctant Reformer: Nathan Sanford in the Era of the Early Republic , with SUNY Press: Set in th...

From the University of Alabama Press comes a new biography of Constance Baker Motley, by Gary L. Ford, Jr. (Lehman College). Here's how ...

Out this month with UBC Press is Claire L'Heureux-Dubé: A Life by Constance  Backhouse (University of Ottawa) . From the publisher: ...

Ross E. Davies, George Mason University,  Antonin Scalia Law School, has posted A Generous Judicial Parabolist: Curtis D. Wilbur, which ap...

Shelley L. Dowling, retired Librarian of the Court, US Supreme Court , has published Elbridge Thomas Gerry: An Exceptional Life in Gilded...

Christopher J. Robinette, Widener University Commonwealth Law Schoo l, and Kyle Graham , have posted The Prosser Letters: Scholar as Dean , ...

Julia L. Ernst, North Dakota School of Law , has published The Legacy of Theodore Roosevelt’s Approach to Governmental Powers , North Dakota...

Out with Hart Publishing is The Triumph, Tragedy and Lost Legacy of James M. Landis by Justin O’Brien , University of New South Wales. Fr...

Historian and biographer  Ian Hancock  published Tom Hughes QC: A Cab on the Rank with The Federation Press in 2016.  From the publisher:...

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Stanford Law School , has posted James Landis and the Dilemmas of Administrative Government , which appeared in ...