Showing posts with label book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book. Show all posts
Saturday, September 7, 2024

Weekend Roundup

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Video is available of the most recent Peking University School of Transnational Law Law and Humanities Series seminar: Dmitry Poldnikov (M...
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Weekend Roundup

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A recording of that OAH Webinar with Professors H olly Brewer, Michael Klarman , and Donna Schuele on The Supreme Court in Historical Persp...
Thursday, March 14, 2024

Little on Law Libraries in Early Indiana

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Lee R. Little , Research and Instructional Services Librarian, Ruth Lilly Law Library, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law ...
Thursday, March 16, 2023

Wallace Johnson Program for First Book Authors

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[We have the following announcement from the American Society for Legal History.  DRE] The biennial Wallace Johnson Program for First Book ...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Law Books: History & Connoisseurship

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 [We have the following announcement.  DRE] Applications are now being accepted for "Law Books: History & Connoisseurship", a ...
Tuesday, July 12, 2022

The Work-Life Balance & Other Myths

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          It took far longer to get my first book to publication than I ever thought it would. It began as my dissertation, completed in 200...
Monday, March 7, 2022

Lapidus Fellowship for the Study of Rare Early American Legal Texts

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We have the following announcement.  DRE] credit The William & Mary Law School and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History ...
Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Widener on "Legal Books"

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Michael Widener has published From Law Book to Legal Book: The Origin of a Species ” is now out, open access, in volume 29 of Rechtsgeschic...
Monday, May 10, 2021

Widener to Retire as YLS Rare Book Librarian

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Mike Widener ( YLS ) We know that “end of an era” is a cliche, but everything else seems inadequate.  Mike Widener is stepping down as Rar...
Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Thank you, David Schwartz!

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We are happy to have had Professor David S. Schwartz (University of Wisconsin) join us as our last guest blogger of the decade. Here are h...
Tuesday, April 16, 2019

A Better Book: The Home Institution

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              A choice I did not make that profoundly shaped Almost Citizens was that of USC Gould School of Law to hire me. Here, I luc...
Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Update: Oxford Handbook of European Legal History

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We recently posted a new book announcement for the Oxford Handbook of European Legal History . It has come to our attention that only thre...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

From Brandeis and the American Fair Trade League to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Antitrust Reform

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In my last post , I recounted the process I went through to find a research topic for a legal history seminar in graduate school at U.Va...
Friday, March 30, 2018

Real Talk: Challenges and Benefits of Writing a Book as a Postdoc

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In my past couple of posts, I’ve written about figuring out the structure of a book and sculpting lively prose , but I’m often asked ...
Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Bureaucracy Isn't Boring: Notes on Sculpting Prose

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Enlisting Faith is a book about the military chaplaincy, which also means it’s a book about bureaucracy. Analytically, it follows Sophia L...
Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Low-Tech Tools for Structuring a Book

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One of the big questions any author faces is how to structure a book. The options are, at least in theory, endless. And this can be a goo...