Legal History Blog

Julia Rudolph, North Carolina State University , has published William Blackstone, Family Man: New Contexts in Gender, Jurisprudence, and Ja...

Caitlin Tully , a Ph.D. candidate in History at Princeton University, has published an essay in The Atlantic : " The Court has an Easy ...

From the Chronicle of Higher Education : Adam Sitze (Amherst College) on " The Strange History of University Autonomy — and Why We Need...

Jan C. Jansen , University of Tübingen , has published Alien Acts in the Age of Emancipation: Mobility Control and Executive Power in the Br...

Sascha Auerbach, University of Nottingham , has published T he Overseer State: Slavery, Indenture and Governance in the British Empire, 1812...

English Law, the Legal Profession, and Colonialism: Histories, Parallels, and Influences , edited by Cerian Griffiths, Northumbria Universit...

Kevin E. Davis, New York University School of Law , has posted Haiti and the Uses of Comparative Legal History in the Caribbean : This essay...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] Stephen B. Aranha, Towards a Democratic Franchise. Suffrage Reform in the Twentieth-Century Baham...

Now available open access in Studies in American Political Development : The Empty Gift: Citizenship, Imperialism, and Political Development...

Smita Ghosh, Appellate Counsel, Constitutional Accountability Center , and a former LHB Associate Blogger, has published Border Games in th...

Laurie Wood (Florida State University) has won the 2021 Boucher Prize from the French Colonial Historical Society for her book, Archipelago...

  Julia Gaffield (Georgia State University) has published " The Racialization of International Law after the Haitian Revolution: The Ho...

  Katherine M. Marino (UCLA) published Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement with the University o...

 The Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly has a special issue out on "The Constitutional Legacies of Empire," edited by Paul F. Scott...

Parvathi Menon, Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights, has posted Edmund Burke and the Ambivalence of Protection for...

Out soon by Laurie Wood, Florida State University , is Archipelago of Justice: Law in France's Early Modern Empire , published by Yale ...

William & Mary Law School has a nice profile of Thomas J. McSweeney on the publication of his book, Priests of the Law: Roman Law and...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] Sovereignty, Law, and Emancipation in the South Atlantic, 1850-1900 .  Emory University, Februa...

Rebecca Scott ( University of Michigan ) and Carlos Venegas Fornias ( Instituto Cubano de Investigación Cultural Juan Marinello, La Haban...

A week ago I had the pleasure of being on a panel focused on my recent book, Almost Citizens . Sophia Lee asked me a question that zeroe...