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Michael F. McGovern , Knight Law and Media Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School , has published Regulating bias: validity li...

Volume 106 of the Boston University Law Review includes the article " Who Owns Civil Rights History? " by Robert S. Chang (UC Irv...

Mark Hanna has published From Claudette Colvin’s expectation to bus desegregation in Browder v Gayle in the American Journal of Legal His...

An article of interest from Britney Wilson (New York Law School): " The Disability History of Brown v. Board of Education ," Wash...

ASLH President Mitra Sharafi 's alternative to assigning undergraduate research papers in an age of AI ( South Asian Legal History Resou...

Joy Milligan, University of California, Berkeley Law School , has posted The Constitution of Racial Repair: A Reconstructed History , which ...

The Law & Society Association has announced its 2026 awards , including the winner of the  James Willard Hurst Book Prize  (" award...

Reva B. Siegel (Yale Law School) and Mary Ziegler  (University of California, Davis) have posted Dismantling Equality Rights Through "B...

Forthcoming from the Cambridge University Press: In Congress We Trust? Enforcing Voting Rights from the Founding to the Jim Crow Era by Fra...

Over at JOTWELL, we've noticed several reviews of interest: Maya Manian (American University Washington College of Law)  wrote about Az...

Kurt Lash, University of Richmond School of Law , has posted The Allegiance Reading of the Citizenship Clause and Its Critics: A Response : ...

Elizabeth Brand Monroe  (1947-2026), a legal and public historian who received the Supreme Court Historical Society's Gossett Award fo...

David-James Gonzales, Brigham Young University , has published Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation: Mexican American Grassroots Politics ...

Richard F Hamm has published Confronting Racism: Arthur Garfield Hays and the Fight for Equality, 1925-1954 (SUNY Press): Beginning in 192...

[We have the following announcement from the Supreme Court Historical Society .  DRE] Rights, Commerce, and Reform: A New Era of Supreme Cou...

Griffin Black has recently published Reconstruction State Constitutional Conventions and the Rebirth of American Schooling as a student no...

Congratulations to  Alison LaCroix, University of Chicago Law School , upon the awarding to her  of the American Historical Association’s Li...

John Fabian Witt, Yale Law School, has published  The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America (Simon...

JOTWELL has recently published a few reviews of interest. A post by Natsu Taylor Saito (Georgia State University)  encourages readers to c...

Rachel Rothschild, University of Michigan Law School , has been chosen to receive the 2025–2026 Pace Haub Environmental Law Distinguished Ju...