Legal History Blog

 I am delighted to be back as a Legal History (guest) Blogger. My second scholarly monograph, Fear of theFalse: Forensic Science and the Law...

[ Via ESCLH Blog , we have the following announcement.  DRE] The journal Comparative Legal History is pleased to announce that its website ...

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

The Supreme Court Historical Society has announced that, effective immediately, G. Edward White has succeeded Ross E. Davies as Editor of...

[We have the following call from the Supreme Court Historical Society for an Editor and Chair of Board of Editors for the Journal of Suprem...

Rachel Rothschild, University of Michigan Law School , has been chosen to receive the 2025–2026 Pace Haub Environmental Law Distinguished Ju...

[We have the following announcement .  H/t: JQB.  DRE] Established in 2025 by his family, the William E. Leuchtenburg Fund at the University...

[Via H-Law , we have the following announcement.  DRE] Call for Manuscripts:  Law and Society in China Book Series/Brill After nearly four d...

[We have the following CFP.  DRE.] The Northwestern University Law Review ( NULR ) is proud to be opening submissions for the seventh annua...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] Professor Clark Kelso (University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law) is the incoming editor-i...

[We have the following announcement.  H/t: New York Almanac .  DRE.] SUNY Press has announced a new series, Studies in New York Law , edited...

Forgive us, but we only recently became aware of Elizabeth Dale 's "digital monograph," Fight for Rights: The Chicago 1919 Rio...

Slate's Amicus podcast (hosted by Dahlia Lithwick) is doing a series on originalism . The first episode in the series is here (" H...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] The Northwestern University Law Review ( NULR ) is proud to be opening submissions for the seven...

 [We have the following CFP.  DRE] The Michigan Journal of Law and Society (MJLS) is pleased to announce our call for submissions for artic...

Last summer we published the call for submissions for a new legal historical periodical, the Journal for Digital Legal History .  It has sin...

Kate Masur, Northwestern University, discussed on Professor Masur's Until Justice Be Done on Crooked Media's Strict Scrutiny podca...

This week's legal-historian-recognized-for teaching-at-a-law-school is Penn Carey Law 's Sophia Z. Lee , whom the JD Class of 2023 c...

[We have the following announcement and call for submissions for an exciting new journal, on whose editorial board Karen and I serve.  DRE] ...

 [Like us, you may not have been aware that some years back the newsletter of the California Supreme Court Historical Society was reestabli...