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Marco Basile, Boston College Law School , has published The Splintering of American Public Law in the University of Chicago Law Review : Co...

Martha S. Jones and Kate Masur 's amicus brief on birthright citizenship in a First Circuit immigration case.  They and others will par...

Thomas M. Cooley ( NYPL ) The last known descendant of Thomas Cooley has given the document appointing him the first chairman of the Inters...

Law and History Review 42:2 (May 2024) is now available online : Legal Pluralism as a Category of Analysis Jessica Marglin, Mark Letteney ...

Saul Cornell ’s contribution to the Slate series, “How Originalism Ate the Law,” is Why the Right Dominates When It Comes to Legal “History....

Jonathon Booth,  University of Colorado Law School , has posted P olicing after Slavery: Race, Crime, and Resistance in Atlanta , which is f...

Ronald K. L. Collins has published Tragedy on Trial: The Story of the Infamous Emmett Till Murder Trial (Carolina Academic Press): Tragedy...

The Supreme Court Historical Societ y has announced its “first virtual event of 2024, a virtual lecture and conversation with Professor Jess...

Brian Balogh, University of Virginia , emeritus, has published Not in My Backyard: How Citizen Activists Nationalized Local Politics in the ...

On C-SPAN, Jeffrey Rosen, National Constitution Center , discusses Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'s The Common Law (1881), which the Librar...

Tyler Rose Clemons , Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering, N.Y.U. School of Law (and a former student of mine) has posted Coercive Ideol...

At its annual meeting last month, the American Society for Legal History announced the winner of the  Cromwell Dissertation Prize , awarde...

Paul M. Pruitt, Jr., University of Alabama Law School , has published Good and Faithful Servant: Marshal and Librarian Junius M. Riggs and t...

George F. K. Werner , a student at Duke Law School , has posted his note in the Duke Law Journal , Norm Commandeering and the Tobacco Trust ...

Gregory May , a lawyer who practiced thirty years in New York and Washington, has published A Madman's Will: John Randolph, Four Hundred...

The Fordham Urban Law Journal has published " Plantation Localism ," by Daniel Farbman (Boston College Law School). It is part of...

John William Wertheimer , the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History at Davidson College, has published Race and the Law in South Caroli...

Jessica Lowe, University of Virginia School of Law , has posted "Our Experiences Make Us Who We Are": Lessons from Thomas Ruffin a...

Former ASLH President Constance Backhouse delivered the 14th Annual DeLloyd J. Guth Visiting Lecture in Legal History at the University on ...