Legal History Blog

Kathleen Claussen, Georgetown Law , and Timothy Meyer, Duke Law , have published The Foreign Commerce Power in the California Law Review : ...

 [We have the following announcement .  DRE] The American Historical Association invites you to attend a Congressional Briefing offering hi...

Allison Powers, University of Wisconsin-Madison , has published Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of Intern...

Tracey M. Roberts, Cumberland School of Law, Samford University , has posted A Man for His Era and for Ours: Cordell Hull, Father of the Fed...

The Toronto lawyer Ryan Manucha has published Booze, Cigarettes, and Constitutional Dust-Ups: Canada's Quest for Interprovincial Free T...

[We have the following announcement.   DRE] The global payments system represents the underlying plumbing of globalisation, determining the ...

In October 2019, Fahad Bishara , Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia will be guest blogging here.  Prof. Bisha...

Itinerario's new special issue on " The Indian Ocean of Law: Hybridity and Space" is now out. Here is the table of content...

Heikki Pihlajamäki (University of Helsinki), Albrecht Cordes (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main),Serge Dauchy (CNRS Lille-France, Univers...

WaPo’s Fred Barbash on my Georgetown Law colleague John Mikhail : "Trump’s ‘emoluments’ battle: How a scholar’s search of 200 years ...

Philip Thai, Northeastern University , has published China's War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, ...

Donald R. Davis, University of Texas at Austin, has published The Dharma of Business: Commercial Law in Medieval India with Penguin. From...

In 2016, Indrani Chatterjee, University of Texas at Austin , published " Women, Monastic Commerce, and Coverture in Eastern India circ...

Out this month with Cambridge University Press is A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 by Fahad Bi...