Legal History Blog

Christine A. Corcos, Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center , has posted The Uses of Alexis de Tocqueville's Writings in C...

We're a bit late in noticing it, but the  American Journal of Legal History 64:4 has been published :  Mr Locke’s enclosure: the uncomm...

Carolyn Strange, Australian National University , has published, open access, The Contestation of Penal Expertise in the Age of the Expert: ...

A one-day, virtual workshop on Historical Evidence for Policy Reform in Marital Breakdown, Domestic Abuse, and Child Welfare sponsored by N...

Eric M. Adams and Jordan Stanger-Ross have published Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution (UBC Press): In S...

[We have the following announcement  of a book launch to be held at the Library and Archives of Canada on Wednesday, November 12, from 7 -...

John W. Cairns , professor of Civil Law at the University of Edinburgh , will deliver this year’s Eason-Weinmann Lecture on International an...

John Mark Keyes, University of Ottawa, has posted Evolution of Legislative Drafting Style in English : This paper reviews the evolution of ...

Binghamton University 's notice of Nathanael Andrade 's forthcoming Killing the Messiah: The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus of Naza...

Preston Jordan Lim, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law , has posted The Great Depression and Canada's Major Originalist D...

A recording of that Brennan Center event, The Fight Against Originalism Continues , with Jonathan Gienapp, Gautham Rao , and Rachel Shelden ...

Over at the New Republic : John Fabian Witt (Yale Law School) reviews Aziz Rana 's The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idoliz...

Let the Wild Rumpus Start! Michaël Lessard and Marie-Andrée Plante, Université de Sherbrooke , have posted Where the Wild Things Are (and H...

Some items arrived too late for our usual Weekend Roundup. Boston University Law 's appreciation of (fellow Dubuquer) David Seipp as h...

" Mary Frances Berry : A Portrait ."  Stephen J. Pollak ( credit ) Stephen J. Pollak died a week ago.  He was Assistant Attorney ...

Ian Keay, Queen's University, Kris Inwood, University of Guelph , and Blair Long, Cape Breton University , have posted Institutional Cha...

New from Hart Publishing: Studies in the History of Tax Law , Volume 11, edited by Peter Harris and Dominic de Cogan : This book is a conti...

Simon Wallace, York University Osgoode Hall Law School , has posted “Police Authority is Necessary”: The Canadian Origins of the Legal Powe...

Thomas G. W. Telfer, Western University Faculty of Law , and Virginia Torrie, Affiliated Researcher, Desautels Centre for Private Enterprise...

The University of Toronto Press has published For the Encouragement of Learning: The Origins of Canadian Copyright Law (2023), by Myra Tawf...