Legal History Blog

[We have the following announcement from the Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy of the Wayne State University Law School .  DRE.] T...

From the Washington Post 's "Made by History" section: Julio Capó Jr. ( Florida International University) and Melba Pearson ...

Over at JOTWELL's Property section, Shelley Ross Saxer  (Pepperdine Law) has posted an admiring review of University of Virginia lega...

As regular readers know, JOTWELL's Legal History section is a great source for identifying must-read work in our field. Lately I've ...

Back in spring 2016, the University of California Press published Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to th...

New from Dartmouth College Press: Enemies of All Humankind: Fictions of Legitimate Violence (2017), by Sonja Schillings ( Justus Liebig Un...

"The Arrival at the Scaffold" ( LC ) Martin Lederman, Georgetown University Law Center , has posted The Law (?) of the Lincoln...

Matthew C. Waxman, Columbia Law School , has posted The Power to Wage War Successfully , which is forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review : ...

The University of Hawai'i Press has released Bayonets in Paradise: Martial Law in Hawai`i during World War II , by Harry N. Scheiber an...

From the Consumer Law & Policy Blog: historical perspectives on the Supreme Court's current Fair Housing Act case ( here and here...

Dr, Charlotte Peevers, a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney has recently published The Politics of Just...

As a result of my earlier post on teaching " Law and the 'War on Terror ,'" I learned about Long Wars and the Constitution...

Last week we ran a post about how to teach the topic of " Law and the 'War on Terror ,'" part of my series of posts on tea...

This is a continuation of a series of posts on my first time teaching the U.S. Legal History survey (the first post is here ). (Guest blogg...

This week, the University of Michigan Press publishes Mrs. Shipley's Ghost: The Right to Travel and Terrorist Watchlists , by Jeffrey Ka...

Kenneth Anderson, Washington College of Law, American University , has posted Time Out of Joint , his review of War Time: An Idea, Its Histo...

Mary Dudziak (Emory Law) has an op-ed, titled " Obama's Nixonian Precedent ," in today's New York Times . Here's the f...

Jill Lepore 's latest New Yorker article may be of interest to readers. It is titled " The Dark Ages: Terrorism, Terror, and the ...

Thanks to Karen, Dan, and Clara for inviting me to guest blog here. This year I’ve devoted much of my intellectual energy to tea...