Legal History Blog

Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania , has posted The Holy Cause: Church and State in Revolutionary and Early National New Yo...

Thomas A. Smith , emeritus at University of San Diego School of Law , has posted Catholic Constitutional Republicanism: Suárez, the School o...

Dennis J Wieboldt, III , a JD-PhD candidate at Notre Dame , has published ‘But the original intent of the Constitution would be restored’: C...

Benjamin Schonthal, University of Otago , has published Courts, Constitutions and Karma Buddhism, Law and the Practices of Legal Pluralism i...

John Witte, Jr.,  Emory University School of Law, an eminent historian of law and religion, has posted a number of his papers, most (but no...

[We have the following CFP .  DRE] Call for Papers: Deadline December 30, 2025 On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration o...

Omar Youssef Cheta, Syracuse University , has published How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egy...

Louis D. Brandeis ( NYPL ) [We have the following announcement .  DRE]  “The Jewish Problem, Then and Now: Rethinking Louis Brandeis’s Liber...

Volume 8, Issues 1-2 of The Docket , the companion to Law and History Review , is now online : Sarah Gronningsater: The Rising Generation A ...

Max Kuhelj Bugaric , a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government and a student in the Law School at Harvard University , has posted Ra...

Jonathon Booth, University of Colorado Law School , has posted A New Satanic Panic , which is forthcoming in the Yale Journal of Law and Fem...

The California Law Review has published " The Equal Right to Exclude: Religious Speech and the Road to 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis ,...

The Irish Legal History Society will hold its annual general meeting on November 29.  Following the meeting John G. Gordon will lecture on ...

The Department of Law, Queen Mary University of London , has announced three upcoming events of interest to legal historians.  All are free ...

Samuel L. Bray, Notre Dame Law School , and D. N. Keane, Georgia Southern University , have posted James Ussher (1581-1656 ): James Ussher (...

Kellen R. Funk, Columbia Law School , has published Sect and Superstition: The Protestant Framework of American Codification open access in...

[We are in receipt of a special edition of the newsletter of the Department of “Historical Regimes of Normativity” of the Max Planck Institu...

Felice Batlan, Chicago-Kent College of Law , has posted The 1948 Displaced Persons Act and Home-Grown Antisemitism : This Article examines t...

Ian Ward, Newcastle University , has published The Reformation of the Constitution: Law, Culture and Conflict in Jacobean England (Hart/Blo...

A belated notice that Oxford University Press has published A Widow's Vengeance after the Wars of Religion (2023), by Tom Hamilton (Dur...