Legal History Blog

Naomi Cahn, University of Virginia School of Law, Maxine Eichner, University of North Carolina School of Law, and Mary E. Ziegler, Universi...

Rachel Elizabeth Pimm-Smith , Warwick Law School , has published, online and open access, From the Poor Law to the Adoption of Children Act ...

Laura Savarese, Michigan State University , has posted The Origins of Family Rights and Family Regulation: A Dual Legal History , which is f...

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

A preprint of David S. Tanenhaus’s The Many Histories of Juvenile Justice , forthcoming in Crime and Justice: A Review of Research , is now ...

[We have the following announcement from our friends at the American Bar Foundation .  For further information, please contact Sophie Kofman...

New from the University of Pennsylvania Press: The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Fre...

Bruen as the Legal Historians' Full Employment Act.  Robert J. Spitzer, SUNY Cortland , has posted  Historical Weapons Restrictions on ...

From Process, the blog of the Organization of American Historians: " The American Public’s Role in Financial Regulation ," by Chri...

100 Years of the Infanticide Act: Legacy, Impact and Future Directions , edited by Karen Brennan and Emma Milne, has been published by Hart/...

The American Journal for Legal History 63:1 (March 2023) is now fully published on line: The best answer? Justice Nelson’s concurrence in ...

Elizabeth D. Katz, University of Florida Levin College of Law, has posted Fostering Faith: Religion in the History of Family Policing , whi...

We have the following announcement, regarding a November 10, 2022, pre-conference convening at this year's meeting of the American Socie...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE} Legal Histories of Empire: Second Symposium Join us for the second of several symposia planned fo...

Tulsa Law Review 55:2 (2020), a book review issue, includes essays of interest to legal historians: Reassessing the Historical Foundations...

We missed this one when New York University Press released it last July: Presumed Criminal Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar Ne...

My Georgetown Law colleague Philip G. Schrag , has just published Baby Jails The Fight to End the Incarceration of Refugee Children in Amer...

Elizabeth D. Katz (Washington University in St. Louis) has published the following article: "Criminal Law in a Civil Guise: The Evolut...

New from the University of North Carolina Press: The Criminalization of Black Children: Race, Gender, and Delinquency in Chicago’s Juvenile ...

New from New York University Press: Ages of Anxiety: Historical and Transnational Perspectives on Juvenile Justice , edited by William S. B...