Legal History Blog

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

[We have the following announcement .  DRE] The Stanford Center for Law and History is delighted to share the full information for our Cent...

The Journal of Policy History 34:1 (January 2022) is available online . New Policy Elites and the Affordable Care Act: The Making of Long-T...

[We have received the following request.  DRE.] The David Berg Foundation Institute for Law and History at Tel Aviv University is puttin...

Patrick Newman, Florida Southern College , has posted another installment of his research on the politics of meat inspection, Public Intere...

Polly J. Price, Emory University School of Law , has posted Do State Lines Make Public Health Emergencies Worse? Federal Versus State Contr...

Out now with the University of Chicago Press is Contesting Medical Confidentiality: Origins of the Debate in the United States, Britain, a...

The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 ( credit ) Are you working on the legal history of disasters, poisoning, animals, inventions, trave...

St. Andrews University has acquired the Marchmont Manuscript, a 450-year-old manuscript that “contains Regiam Majestatem , the earliest s...

Back in 2015,  Kara Swanson , Northeastern University School of Law , published "The Doctor's Dilemma: Paternalisms in the Medicol...

Maureen K. Lux (Brock University) has published Separate Beds: A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada, 1920s-1980s (University of Toront...

Lewis A. Grossman, American University, Washington College of Law , has posted AIDS Activists, FDA Regulation, and the Amendment of America...

Lewis A. Grossman , American University , Washington College of Law, visiting at Cornell Law School , has posted Orthodoxy and "The Oth...

[Smita Ghosh , JD, Class of 2014, and PhD Candidate, American Legal History, at the University of Pennsylvania , has provided us with a reca...

New from the University of Chicago Press: The Pox of Liberty: How the Constitution Left Americans Rich, Free, and Prone to Infection (June ...

Polly J. Price, Emory University School of Law , has posted Infecting the Body Politic: Observations on Health Security and the 'Undesi...

Polly J. Price, Emory University School of Law, has posted A Legislative History of the Shotgun Quarantine :  The recent Ebola threat fro...

Hello from Seattle and the Law & Society Association Conference! Here's a list of reviews for this Sunday's reading: H-Net has...

H-Net has a review of Brendan C. Lindsay's Murder State: California's Native American Genocide 1846-1873  (University of Nebraska P...

New from the University of California Press: Toxic Injustice: A Transnational History of Exposure and Struggle (Dec. 2014), by Susanna Rank...