Legal History Blog

Maureen E. Brady, Harvard Law School , has posted Debates Over "Public Use" in the State Constitutional Conventions : Historians a...

Kevin Costello, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin , has posted Two Eighteenth Century Somerset Boroughs and the Origins of...

Josiah M. Daniel III , Vinson & Elkins and UT Austin, has posted The Historiographical Problem of Municipal Bankruptcy Law : This is the...

Penn Carey Law ’s notice of Dean Sophia Lee 's recent article on "the evolution of Fourth Amendment privacy from weak pre-Reconstr...

Esther Liberman Cuenca has published The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval and Reformation England (Oxford University Press): Draw...

Brian Highsmith , Lecturer and Academic Fellow in Law and Political Economy at the Harvard Law School , has posted Governing the Company Tow...

Stephen Robertson, George Mason University has published Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935 , a d...

We missed this April 2022 release from the University of North Carolina Press: Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit , by ...

Joseph D. Kearney, Marquette Law , and Thomas W. Merrill, Columbia Law , have published Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicag...

Michael Allan Wolf, University of Florida Levin College of Law, has posted Between Jacob(s) and Moses: Ed Logue, Urban Redevelopment Lawyer...

Scott L. Cummings, UCLA Law , has published An Equal Place: Lawyers in the Struggle for Los Angeles (Oxford University Press, 2020): An Equ...

The Wall Street Journal interviewed Laura Phillips Sawyer (University of Georgia School of Law) for this piece on the Justice Department...

Kristian Blickle, Federal Reserve Bank of New York , has posted FRBNY Staff Report No. 921, Pandemics Change Cities: Municipal Spending and ...

Fans of Hendrik Hartog's classic " Pigs and Positivism " might be intrigued by this new release from Harvard University Press...

William E. Forbath, University of Texas at Austin School of Law , has posted Class Struggle, Group Rights and Socialist Pluralism on the Low...

The Columbia Law Review has published " Immigrant Sanctuary as the 'Old Normal': A Brief History of Police Federalism ," ...

The University of Chicago Law School has posted the video of Why Madison Matters: Rethinking Democracy in America ,”  this year’s Maurice ...

Out later this year from the University of North Carolina Press (but available for pre-order now): Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real E...

Amnon Lehavi, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliyah , Radzyner School of Law , has posted Re-Romanticizing Commons and Community in Israeli Dis...

Just out from OUP is Most of 14th Street Is Gone: The Washington, DC Riots of 1968 , by J. Samuel Walker : “Left behind were hundreds of b...