Legal History Blog

Jack M. Balkin, Yale Law School , has posted From Off the Wall to On the Wall: How Social Power Shapes Legal Reason : Throughout the history...

On Jeffrey Rosen 's "Blessings of Liberty" podcast Jed Shugerman and Ilan Wurman discuss the historical arguments underlyin...

Josh Blackman, South Texas College of Law Houston , has posted A Historical Record of Special Counsels Before Watergate : This Article prese...

Forthcoming from the Cambridge University Press: In Congress We Trust? Enforcing Voting Rights from the Founding to the Jim Crow Era by Fra...

We note the publication, as an anonymous “Chapter” in the Developments of the Law section of a recent issue of the Harvard Law Review , of t...

[We have the following announcement from our friends at the ICS.  DRE] The White House ( LC ) The Institute for Constitutional Studies at T...

Victor Li has published Supreme Pressure:  The Rejection of John J. Parker and the Birth of the Modern Supreme Court Confirmation Process  ...

Andrea Scoseria Katz, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law , has posted No Higher Law: The Uruguayan Plebiscite of 1980 as a Fai...

Journal of Supreme Court History 50:3 has been published.  Here is the TOC: Louis D. Brandeis on the Supreme Court: An Oral History Lewis J...

[We have the following announcement from the American Historical Association .  DRE] History Behind the Headlines: Government Shutdowns and...

Anthony J. Gaughan, Drake University Law School , has posted Cyclical Misalignment: A History of Campaign Finance Law , which is forthcomin...

[We have the following CFP .  DRE] Call for Proposals: American Political History Conference , June 4-6, 2026, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Cente...

Nicholas Handler, Texas A&M University School of Law , has posted The Administrative Law of McCarthyism , which is forthcoming in the St...

Jeremy Kessler, Columbia Law School , has posted The Problem of Authoritarianism in Marxist Legal Thought , which is forthcoming in the Oxfo...

Raymond J. McKoski , a retired Illinois Circuit Judge and adjunct professor at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, has publish...

Jonathan Klaaren, University of the Witwatersrand , has posted Law under Apartheid , which is forthcoming in the unfortunately timely Oxford...

Mark Jones , professor emeritus of criminal justice and criminology, East Carolina University, has published A History of the United States ...

The Spring 2025 issue of the Journal of American Constitutional History is now online .    Dictatorship in the American Founding Adam Lebov...

[We have the following announcement .  DRE] The American Historical Association invites you to attend a Congressional Briefing offering his...

Elizabeth Lee Thompson, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law , has published Mandamus as a Democracy Tool , which is forthcomi...