Legal History Blog

New from the University of Chicago Press:  Writing with Fire: The Cowboy Suit Tragedy and the Course of a Life , by Barbara Young Welke (Un...

 [We have the following CFP.  DRE] W G Hart Workshop 2025: Regulating the Global Movement of Care.  Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, Lo...

Lawrence M. Friedman, Stanford Law School, has published Work Accidents: A Drama in Three Acts in the Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Jour...

Several prizes of interest to legal historians were awarded at the just-concluded Business History Conference.  One was the Anne Fleming Art...

We note the passing of the constitutional historian Herman Belz , Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Maryl...

Edward Garrison Draper ( Dartmouth College ) “The Supreme Court of Maryland will hold a Special Session on October 26, 2023 for the posthumo...

Two law schools have recently noted publications by legal historians: NYU Law has a notice of Noah Rosenblum ’s Columbia Law Review artic...

John Q. Barrett, St. John's University School of Law , has posted Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Litigating Against Gender Discrimination...and Re...

John Fabian Witt, Yale Law School , has posted Radical Histories/Liberal Histories in Work Injury Law , a review forthcoming in the American...

Charles L. Barzun, University of Virginia School of Law , has posted Catharine MacKinnon and the Common Law : Few scholars have influenced a...

LaborOnline, the blog of the Labor and Working-Class History Association, has been hosting a symposium, i ntroduced by Eileen Boris , on re...

I want to thank the editors of the Legal History Blog for having me as a guest blogger. It’s an honor and I’m delighted to have my words on ...

 Over at Jotwell, Deborah Dinner has a notice of Nate Holdren 's  forthcoming Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism,...

Anthony O’Donnell , Senior Lecturer in Law, La Trobe University , Melbourne, has published Inventing Unemployment: Regulating Joblessness in...

Out with the University of Toronto Press is Working Towards Equity: Disability Rights Activism and Employment in Late Twentieth-Century Can...