Legal History Blog

Legal historian Sarah Gronningsater, University of Pennsylvania , has been appointed to the Evan C Thompson Chair for Excellence in Teaching...

Legal historian Tomiko Brown-Nagin has been appointed dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Stanford's notice is here .   ...

MJ Palau-McDonald, University of Hawai’i at Manoa--William S. Richardson School of Law , has posted Farrington v. Tokushige : Language &...

Oxford University Press has published Transformations of Tradition: Islamic Law in Colonial Modernity (Mar. 2021), by Junaid Quadri (Unive...

Every month or so the Toynbee Prize Foundation posts interviews with the authors of books on comparative and global history.  Just up is its...

My last two posts with Judith Mansilla discussed a dimension of law that consumed perhaps the greatest part of colonial Spanish Americans’...

I am so grateful that Mitra invited me to be the guest blogger during this first month of the new year and decade.  If I understand corr...

One of the issues that habitually frustrates me is the disconnect between historians who work on the colonial period and those who speci...

Historians have routinely divided European Legal history into many pieces. They distinguished an English from a Continental law and they...