Legal History Blog

Katrina Jagodinsky, University of Nebraska-Lincoln , will be addressing the Department ofHistory and School of Law at the University of Oreg...

[ Via H-Law , we have the following announcement.  DRE.] Please join the State Constitutions Lab on Thursday February 26 @ 1:00 PM (Eastern ...

[We have the following announcement from our friends at the U.S. Law and Race Initiative of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln .  DRE.] Join...

Aziz Rana, Boston College , will discuss his book, The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them , as th...

Now available on-line, a recording of that National Constitution Center  town hall, The Story of the U.S. Constitution: Past and Present , w...

On Thursday, November 20, from 18:00 to 19:30, Ian Williams, St. John’s College, Oxford University , will speak on "Precedent and Sover...

Jeremy Bentham ( NYPL ) [Via H-Law , we have the following announcement.  DRE] Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon penitentiary scheme, and ...

Dylan C. Penningroth will deliver Hidden Histories of Black Civil Rights , the 2025 Pro Lecture in Legal History at the William S. Boyd Sch...

[We have the following announcement .  DRE] Call for Applications: Colonial Legacies in Public Law: histories, theories, pitfalls and potent...

[We have the following announcement from the Organization of American Historians.  DRE.] The Supreme Court in Historical Perspective: A Futu...

Justin Simard, Michigan State University Law School , on the Citing Slavery Project ( The Conversation ). Giuliana Perrone, UC Santa Barbara...

[We have the following announcement from the Kluge Center via the American Historical Association.  DRE] Visions and Realities of Black Free...

From Time 's "Made by History" section: Hardeep Dhillon (University of Pennsylvania), " What Was Revealed When British O...

GW Law announces a public event on a certain alumnus, J. Edgar Hoover (LL.B. 1916; LL.M. 1917).  Professor of Practice Jonathan Cedarbaum ...

The Edinburgh Law School’s Centre for Legal History will host a talk with Xavier Prévost , Professor of Legal History at the University of B...

I'm afraid I didn't attend the Legal History sessions at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools earlier this ...

David Sugarman , Professor of Law Emeritus at the Law School of Lancaster University , is lecturing on The Hidden Histories of the Pinochet ...

The Ius Commune Podcast has released on Spotify the first of a two-part series on French Medieval Law with Ada Kuskowski, University of Pe...

Centre for English Legal History at Cambridge University announces its Michaelmas 2023 term card on seminars and a lecture. --Dan Ernst  

Online on at noon ET on Thursday, October 5, the National Constitution Center will host a session in its "America's Town hall...