Legal History Blog

  Joseph McQuade (University of Toronto) published A Genealogy of Terrorism: Colonial Law and the Origins of an Idea with Cambridge Univer...

 (We share the following Call for Abstracts. The deadline is 5 March 2021.) Howard Journal of Crime & Justice Special Issue Call for Abs...

[Volume 17 (2020) of GLOSSAE: The European Journal of Legal History , is now online.  We list the articles below.  Miscellany, book reviews ...

  Alastair McClure (University of Hong Kong) has published "Archaic Sovereignty and Colonial Law: The reintroduction of corporal punis...

Just out from Cambridge University Press: Networks and Connections in Legal History , edited by Michael Lobban , London School of Economics ...

New from Brill: Powerful Arguments: Standards of Validity in Late Imperial China (March 2020), edited by Martin Hofmann (Heidelberg Univer...

The Federal Judicial Center has just published Approaches to Federal Judicial History , edited by Gautham Rao, Winston Bowman and Clara Al...

Durba Mitra (Harvard) has published Indian Sex Life with Harvard University Press. From the publisher: During the colonial period in In...

Out now from Hart: English Legal Histories , by Ian Ward , Professor of Law, Newcastle University : English Legal Histories is an exciti...

Elizabeth D. Katz (Washington University in St. Louis) has published the following article: "Criminal Law in a Civil Guise: The Evolut...

[The Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit has an excellent collection of oral histories of lawyers and judges active in ...

[We have word of the following exhibit at Yale’s Lilian Goldman Law Library , September 9 through December 19, 19, 2019, 127 Wall Street, Ne...

American Journal of Legal History 59:3 (September 2019) is out.  Here’s the TOC: ‘To Stay the Murderer’s Hand and the Rapist’s Passions, ...

Ideology and Criminal Law: Fascist, National Socialist and Authoritarian Regimes , edited by Stephen Skinner and published by Hart, is now a...

Lynsey Black, Maynooth University , has posted Murder, Capital Punishment, and the Irish in Scotland, 1864 to 1914 , which was published in ...

Geoffrey Heeren, University of Iowa College of Law , has posted Crimmigration in Gangland: Race, Crime, and Removal During the Prohibition E...

Jessica K. Lowe, University of Virginia , published Murder in the Shenandoah: Making Law Sovereign in Revolutionary Virginia with Cambridg...

We missed this one when it came out in 2017. It recently won the Socio-Legal Studies Association's 2019  Theory and History Prize . Out...

Our friends over at the Federal Judicial Center have alerted us to their  very useful new webpage, Selected Developments in the History o...

Nikolas Bowie, Harvard Law School, has posted High Crimes Without Law , which appears in the Harvard Law Review Forum 132 (2018): 59: Pr...