Legal History Blog

Mara Revkin, Duke University School of Law , and Gage Gramlick , a JD candidate at Duke, have posted The Civil War Origins of Fiscal Policin...

Law and History Review 43:2 (2025), a special issue, has now been published on-line.  Here is the TOC: Archives of Sexual Violence in Confl...

[We have the following CFP.  DRE] "Violence in the Medieval and Early Modern North."  Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern North Con...

[Here is the schedule of the Pauline Maier Early American History Seminar.  DRE] Sponsored and hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Societ...

My Georgetown Law colleague Kevin Arlyck has published The Nation at Sea: The Federal Courts and American Sovereignty, 1789–1825 (Cambrid...

New from Oxford University Press: Reframing Treaties in the Late Medieval and Early Modern West , edited by Isabella Lazzarini , Luciano Pi...

  Andrew Kent, Fordham University School of Law , has posted The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 : For the first time since World War II-and the f...

Stephen M. Bainbridge, UCLA School of Law , has posted The Law and Economics of An Act to Encourage Privateering Associations : New York Col...

[We have the following announcement from the Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy of the Wayne State University Law School .  DRE.] T...

Maggie Blackhawk, New York University School of Law , has posted The Crisis in Colonial Administration: American Indians and Japanese Intern...

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

American Journal of Legal History 64:1 (March 2024) is now published online . The Pennsylvania Council of Censors and the Debate on the Gua...

Diane Marie Amann, University of Georgia School of Law , has posted Inge Viermetz, Woman Acquitted at Nuremberg : Inge Viermetz ( wiki ) Con...

Slate's Amicus podcast (hosted by Dahlia Lithwick) is doing a series on originalism . The first episode in the series is here (" H...

It turns out taxes were more certain than death.  Michael Littlewood, University of Auckland Faculty of Law , and Micah Burch, The Universit...

Norman E. Donoghue II , has posted Prisoners of Congress: Philadelphia's Quakers in Exile, 1777–1778 (Penn State University Press): In ...

In this post, we'll note two prizes awarded at last month's annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History .  The Surrency...

The 2023 issue of Federal History has been published on-line .  Here’s the TOC: Roger R. Trask Lecture: What Federal Historians Do Edward C...

The Federal Judicial Center is seeking applications for Assistant Division Director for Judicial and Legal Education. Samantha Barbas, Un...

Matthew J. Steilen, SUNY at Buffalo Law School , has posted Life and Afterlife in the Steel Seizure Case , which is forthcoming in the Buff...