Legal History Blog

Volume 106 of the Boston University Law Review includes the article " Who Owns Civil Rights History? " by Robert S. Chang (UC Irv...

Mark Hanna has published From Claudette Colvin’s expectation to bus desegregation in Browder v Gayle in the American Journal of Legal His...

Khiara M. Bridges, UC Berkeley School of Law , has published the review essay Originalism Without History in the Yale Law Journal : Origina...

William Howard Taft ( LC ) Andrea Scoseria Katz on "Taft at the Beach: What the Supreme Court Misses About a Key Unitary Executive Pre...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] Taxation, Racial Capitalism, and the International Rule of Law: From Colonial Slavery to Global G...

Sari Altschuler, Northeastern University, has published Before Disability: A History of American Citizenship (University of Pennsylvania P...

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

Via the American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA): a recording is now available of the recent webinar on "Indigenou...

Sally Hadden, Western Michigan University, will speak on “ The First Massachusetts Constitution and How Town Actions Derailed It ,” online ...

It is publication day for White Power: Policing American Slavery (University of North Carolina Press), by Gautham Rao.  The book is the ini...

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

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

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

Rong Kohtz , a historically minded attorney-at-law , has posted  In re Lelah-Puc-Ka-Chee : A Case Study on the Americanization of Law in the...

Tikia K. Hamilton,  Loyola University Chicago,  has published Nothing Less Than Equality: The Battle over Segregated Education in the Nation...

An alarming opinion of the Office of Legal Counsel of the US Department of Justice advising White House Counsel that the Presidential Recor...

The Asian Legal History Association  has hosted its official launch in Hong Kong ( The Standard ).  The speech of the Secretary for Justice,...

The official date is still about a week hence, but because the book is already getting noticed in social media, we’ll note now the imminent ...

Joshua Aiken, American Bar Foundation Doctoral Fellow in Law & Inequality , has posted She Had Slain Her Favorite: Race, Gender, Violenc...

David Gans, Constitutional Accountability Center , has published Forgotten Framers: Black Conventions and the Second Founding , which is for...