Legal History Blog

Robert Michael Ireland has died .  For forty-one years after he obtain his Ph.D. in history at the University of Nebraska--he had earlier ...

Harvard Law 's notice of Tanner Allread , newly appointed to the faculty. Andrea Scoseria Katz and Jane Manners have posted “Lost to ...

Rosa Goluboff and G. Edward White reflect on the enduring legacy of the Declaration of Independence ( Virginia Law ).  William Novak refl...

Cynthia Nicoletti joins Duke Law faculty ( Duke Law ).     The National Archives of Asunción has opened the exhibit "Four Times of t...

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

ASLH President Mitra Sharafi discusses Fear of the False , "her new book about colonial South Asia's critical role in the developm...

We have of course noted the death of the great historian of the American Revolution Gordon Wood.  As it happens, the Yale Journal of Law and...

Alison LaCroix on using history to advise the University of Chicago 's graduating class ( Chicago Maroon ).  A notice of "Law and ...

"On the 250th anniversary of America’s independence, Harvard Law historian and legal scholar Bruce H. Mann argues that colonists were ...

Elizabeth Papp Kamali on " Charles Donahue : Man, Magister, Inimitable Scholar" ( Harvard Law Bulletin ).   The HLS Library has ...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] The Raoul Berger-Mark DeWolf Howe Legal History Fellowship for 2026-2027 at Harvard Law School h...

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

[We have the following announcement from our friends at NYU Law.  DRE] The  New York University School of Law invites you to celebrate the ...

The legal historian David Langum has died.  He was a professor or research professor at the Cumberland School of Law of Samford University ...

Congratulations to  Allison Brownell Tirres, University of San Francisco School of Law , and to the American Journal of Legal History on Pr...

Congratulations to Hardeep Dhillon (University of Pennsylvania), who received the Early Career Achievement Award from the Association for ...

Boston College Law 's notice of its new legal historian, Marco Basile ( BC Law ).    Mary Bilder, BC Law , will deliver “ The Perils of...

The Winter 2026 issue of the Journal of American Constitutional History is now available online : Sovereign Power and the Sweeping Clause J...

NYU Law 's notice of Ashraf Ahmed , Lev Menand , and  Noah Rosenblum's  article, "The Making of Presidential Administration,” ...

Lorren Eldridge, Emily Ireland, and Caroline Derry have published Celebrating Women in Legal History: Making and Shaping a Discipline  (Hart...