Legal History Blog

There is much of interest to legal historians in the latest issue of the  Journal of American History  (112:3): Presidential Address: Histo...

LHR day continues here at LHB: David Korostyshevsky, Colorado State University , has published Incapable of Managing His Estate: Habitual D...

 [We have the following CFP.  DRE] W G Hart Workshop 2025: Regulating the Global Movement of Care.  Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, Lo...

Last February, we noted that several legal historians would be participating in a University of Pennsylvania Law Review symposium on "...

Paul Raffield, University of Warwick , has published Shakespeare's Strangers and English Law (Hart/Bloomsbury): Through analysis of 5 p...

Earlier this week, the White House announced appointments to Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise .  The Committee is ...

Amy Zanoni has published Remembering Welfare as We Knew It: Understanding Neoliberalism through Histories of Welfare in the Journal of Pol...

Sean Vanatta, University of Glasgow has posted The Financialization of U.S. Public Pensions, 1945-1974 : This article examines a major tran...

We missed this one back when Duke University Press published it in 2020 (thanks to New Books Network for flagging it): Claiming Union Widow...

Felicia Kornbluh, University of Vermont , and Karen Tani, University of Pennsylvania , have posted The Poverty Law Education of Charles Reic...

The Centre for English Legal History’s recent talk with former LHB Guest Blogger Thomas McSweeney, William & Mary Law on his book, Prie...

Nate Holdren, Drake University , discusses Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era (2020) over...

The University of Pennsylvania Press has published Divorce, American Style: Fighting for Women's Economic Citizenship in the Neoliberal ...

 The University of Illinois Press has published a biography on the important twentieth-century reformer and academic Sophonisba Breckenridge...

John Fabian Witt, Yale Law School , has posted Radical Histories/Liberal Histories in Work Injury Law , a review forthcoming in the American...

Filippo Maria Sposini , a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto , has published Just the Basic Facts: The Certification of Insanity in ...

Emily Prifogle (University of Michigan Law) has posted " Legal Landscapes, Migrant Labor, and Rural Social Safety Nets in Michigan, 19...

Anne Fleming, Georgetown University Law Center , has posted The Public Interest in the Private Law of the Poor , which appeared in the Harva...

 Over at Jotwell, Deborah Dinner has a notice of Nate Holdren 's  forthcoming Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism,...

In the San Francisco Chronicle , Amanda L. Tyler (Berkeley Law) offers " Lessons from President Lincoln in the age of coronavirus ....