Legal History Blog

Jerry Edwards, West Virginia University College of Law , has posted The Birth of the Minority Rights First Amendment : An incongruence exist...

ASLH President (and former Legal History Blog co-moderator)  Mitra Sharafi discusses her new book, Fear of the False: Forensic Science and...

Rosa Goluboff and G. Edward White reflect on the enduring legacy of the Declaration of Independence ( Virginia Law ).  William Novak refl...

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...

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...

James Gray Pope, Rutgers Law School , has posted Economic Class and the Original Meanings of the U.S. Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments :...

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

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 ...

The Journal of the Civil War Era 16:1 (March 2026) is a special issue of interest to legal historians, assembled by its editors, Kate Masu...

Continuing with our notices of the awards, prizes, and fellowships announced at the recent meeting of the American Society for Legal History...

Continuing with our notices of the awards, prizes, and fellowships announced at the recent meeting of the American Society for Legal History...

Continuing with our notices of the awards, prizes, and fellowships announced at the recent meeting of the American Society for Legal History...

 The Texas Law Review (Volume 103, issue 9) recently published an essay of interest: Kali Murray (Marquette University Law School), " ...

Congratulations to  Alison LaCroix, University of Chicago Law School , upon the awarding to her  of the American Historical Association’s Li...

Simon P. Newman, University of Glasgow , has published Taken Not Given: The End of Slavery in Britain in Law and History Review : Between t...

John W. Cairns , professor of Civil Law at the University of Edinburgh , will deliver this year’s Eason-Weinmann Lecture on International an...