Legal History Blog

When I started working on my second book, Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia , I created a cour...

  Trais Pearson (Boston College ) has published Sovereign Necropolis: The Politics of Death in Semi- Colonial Siam with Cornell University ...

Barbara Allen Babcock , the first woman member of the Stanford Law School faculty, the Judge John Crown Professor of Law, Emerita, the aut...

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

Back in 2015, John Walton , UC Davis, published The Legendary Detective: The  Private  Eye in Fact and Fiction with the University of Ch...