Legal History Blog

Andrew Kent, Fordham University School of Law , has posted The Pre-History of Modern Economic Sanctions , which is forthcoming in Constituti...

Steven A. Dean, Boston University School of Law , has posted  Racial Capitalism and International Tax Law: The Story of Global Jim Crow  (Ox...

[We have the following CFP.  DRE.] On behalf of the organizers, the Polish Academy of Sciences – Scientific Centre in Vienna, the Faculty of...

Caitlin Tully , a Ph.D. candidate in History at Princeton University, has published an essay in The Atlantic : " The Court has an Easy ...

 A Q&A with Jane Manners , who joined Fordham's law faculty this fall ( Fordham Law News ). The death of former Vice President Dick ...

Julia Klaus, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg , has posted "The Right of Existence of Peoples as Independent Nations...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] The next meeting of the ASLH Environment, Law, and History Global Workshop will take place on 3 ...

My Georgetown Law colleague Kevin Arlyck has published The Nation at Sea: The Federal Courts and American Sovereignty, 1789–1825 (Cambrid...

Curtis Bradley, University of Chicago Law School , has posted Extradition in the Early Republic: International Law and Constitutional Author...

  Andrew Kent, Fordham University School of Law , has posted The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 : For the first time since World War II-and the f...

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

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

Or Rosenboim, University of Bologna , has published, open access, Law, peace, and world order: Hans Kelsen’s global thought in the 1940s in...

Kirsten Sellars has published A ‘Constitution for the Oceans': The Long Hard Road to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (Cambridg...

Curtis Bradley, University of Chicago Law School , has posted Sovereign Power Constitutionalism , which is forthcoming in the University of ...

[We have the following announcement.  H/t: H-Law .  DRE] Symposium: The Worlds of Pre-Modern Neutrality (ca. 1400-1800): Norms, Institutions...

David Sugarman , Lancaster University Law School , has published “ The Hidden Histories of the Pinochet Case ” open access in the Journal of...

Ajay K. Mehrotra, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and the American Bar Foundatio n, has posted The Intellectual Origins of the Modern I...

Christopher M. Roberts, Chinese University of Hong Kong , has posted Re-Covering Forced Labour: Colonial Foreclosures and Forgotten Potentia...

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