Legal History Blog

Holly Brewer, University of Maryland , delivered the Constitution Day lecture at UNLV, entitled  The Absolutist Origins of Unitary Executive...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE]  The Legal History and Rare Books Special Interest Section (LHRB) of the American Association of...

 [We are grateful to David Sugarman for this notice.  DRE] Professor William Twining , a leading figure in the world of legal education and...

Over at Balkinization: a symposium has begun on Marital Privilege , by  Serena Mayeri  (Penn Carey Law).    Over at Notice & Comment: a...

We've been told that the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University is offering research travel grants to...

Over at the New Republic : John Fabian Witt (Yale Law School) reviews Aziz Rana 's The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idoliz...

The Birnbaum Women's Leadership Center at New York University invites applications for Visiting Fellows-in-Residence for the 2024-25 ac...

Bianca Premo, Florida International University , discusses her research on the legal history of the Spanish Empire here . Zach Jonas , a rec...

With financial help from the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation, the New York State Court of Appeals and the New York State Archives have pu...

     When white Americans and European immigrants began to settle on the Great Plains in the nineteenth century, they were so unnerved by th...

The Historical Society of the New York Courts has posted the podcast Litchfield Law School’s Influence on NY State Bench & Bar and a You...

Guestblogger update: due to unforeseen circumstances, we'll be taking a rain check on Laurie Wood 's posts this month. We look forw...

Queen Caroline ( NYPL ) [We have the following announcement.  DRE.] "Trial by Media: The Queen Caroline Affair," the joint e...

In the last blog, we discussed how improvised legal deals made far from notarial offices helped the inhabitants of Lima get back on their ...

With Court packing in the news, LHB readers might have occasion to consult this on-line collection of editorial cartoons from 1937, when Fr...