Legal History Blog

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

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

Among the  prizes and awards announced at the recent meeting of the American Historical Association  was the  John K. Fairbank Prize in Eas...

Continuing with our notices of the awards, prizes, and fellowships announced at the recent meeting of the American Society for Legal History...

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

We are delighted to pass along news of the awards, prizes, and fellowships announced at the recent meeting of the American Society for Legal...

Cambridge University Press has published Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS , by Aziza Ahmed (Bosto...

[Here's another reason to join the American Society for Legal History : Members can virtually participate in this series on great new bo...

Yale University Press has published  Marital Privilege: Marriage, Inequality, and the Transformation of American Law , by Serena Mayeri (Uni...

Salutations to the participants in the J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History of the American Society for Legal History , which...

At its annual meeting in April, the Organization of American Historians awarded the Binkley-Stephenson Award (for "the best article ...

Today’s post about my new book, We the Men , focuses on another form of forgetting in America’s dominant stories about itself—forgetting the...

Jill Elaine Hasday, University of Minnesota Law School , has published We the Men: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetu...

[The second of the two essays in the exam for my legal history course is biographical.  (If you'd like to read prior ones, start here .)...

Journal of Supreme Court History 49:3 has been published : "Judge" Eugene Brooks: Supreme Court Messenger, Proponent of Black Awa...

Continuing our round-up of the prizes and award announced at the recent meeting of the American Society for Legal History , we turn now to t...

[We have the folllowing CFP.  DRE] Call for Contributions for Research Handbook on Gender, History, and Law (Edward Elgar) As part of Edwar...

[We have the following announcement from the National Association of Women Lawyers of the first of a two-part series of podcasts, The Histo...

[Via H-Law , we have the following CFP.  DRE] Law, colonialism and gender in the Muslim world This conference aims to bring together scholar...

Mudlark press has published The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – A Hidden History , by Kate Morgan (2024). A description from the...