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[We're moving this up, as the lecture is this Thursday.]   [Via H-Law , we have the following announcement.] The Society for History ...

Jesus Fernández-Villaverde , Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania , has posted Magna Carta, the Rule of Law, and the Limits o...

Jill Fraley, Washington and Lee University School of Law , has posted Waste Law: The history of waste law, posited as a radical transforma...

Marie-Amelie George , Associate in Law, Columbia University Law School , and ABD Yale University, has posted The Harmless Psychopath: Legal ...

It was a pleasure to see Catherine Fisk, University California Irvine School of Law , workshop some draft chapters from her forthcoming boo...

[We have the following call for papers and/or panels.]  The Seventh International Legal Ethics Conference (ILEC VII) will take place at For...

Christopher Waldrep ( SFSU ) Earlier this week, Charles Zelden, the lead editor of H-Law, noted the following announcement on the webs...

[Here’s another event sponsored by the Historical Society of the New York Courts.] Western New York Women Pioneers in the Law: A Celebrati...

Charles Evans Hughes et al. ( LC ) The Historical Society of the New York Courts announces Nominated from New York: Charles Evans Hughes...

In my book Laws of Image: Privacy and Publicity in America , and in my posts on the Legal History Blog this month, I've described how an...

Tracy A. Thomas , University of Akron School of Law, and Tracey Jean Boisseau , University of Akron, have posted After Suffrage Comes Equal ...

Christian G. Samito has posted Thomas F. Meagher, Patrick R. Guiney, and the Meaning of the Civil War for Irish America: The Questions of N...

[ Via H-Law , we have the following announcement.] Talbot Publishing [an imprint of The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.] is pleased to announce the...

The Colonial Society of Massachusetts announces the 2015 Walter Muir Whitehill Prize in Early American History.  This prize of $2500, establ...

Anders Walker, Saint Louis University School of Law , has posted House to House: Mergers, Annexations, & the Racial Implications of City...

[ Via Balkinization , we have the following announcement.  We're guessing it's a companion conference to this .] Paper proposals are...

By 1940, the tort action for invasion of privacy had been recognized in fifteen jurisdictions. The Restatement of Torts acknowledged it in ...

In plenty of time for Halloween, Greg Goelzhauser, Utah State University, Political Science , has posted Graveyard Dissents on the Burger Co...

Christopher Tomlins, University of California, Berkeley, Jurisprudence and Social PolicyProgram , has posted Adelaide's Blackstone , whi...

In Dissent,  Amy Dru Stanley reviews Alex Gourevitch's From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in th...

It is invitation-only, but LHB readers might be interested anyway: The conference, The Laws of War as an International Regime: History, The...

Danaya C. Wright, University of Florida Levin College of Law, has posted Theorizing History: Separate Spheres, the Public/Private Binary an...

In my book Laws of Image: Privacy and Publicity in America , I chronicle the rise of what I describe as "laws of image" in the twe...

Annamaria Monti, Bocconi University Department of Law , has posted Form, Size, 'Governance'. Remarks on Italian Late 19th-Century Co...

[ Via H-Law , we have an announcement for the conference Law and Governance in pre-Modern Britain , October 23-24, 2015.] Law and Governan...

Hart Publishing announces Entick v Carrington: 250 Years of the Rule of Law , edited by Adam Tomkins , John Millar Professor of Public Law a...

Kit Johnson, University of Oklahoma College of Law , has posted Chae Chan Ping at 125: An Introduction , Oklahoma Law Review 68 (2015): ...

[We have the following announcement.] William Blackstone, via the CSDR A student writing competition is being organized in conjunction...

We recently noticed Major Dan Dalrymple’s An Extraordinary Life Span: A Summary and Analysis of an Oral History of the Honorable William A. ...

[We have the following announcement.] The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation is proud to announce a one-time, highly selective ...

Sean M. O'Connor, University of Washington School of Law , has posted The Lost “Art” of the Patent System , which appears in the Univers...

[We have the following announcement of a reenactment of the oral argument in Morrison v. Olson .  Early arrivers for the ASLH meeting take s...

[We have the following announcement from our friends at Boston College concerning our guest blogger, Samantha Barbas .] We are delighted ...

Thanks again to the Legal History Blog for the opportunity to share ideas from my book Laws of Image: Privacy and Publicity in America . W...

The AHA has announced its 2015 prize winners.  The Littleton-Griswold Prize "for the best book in any subject on the history of America...

[We have the following announcement.] Rethinking Protest Music , October 24–25, 2015, Bowl 016, Robertson Hall, Princeton University, Prin...

Kenneth M. Stack, Vanderbilt Law School , looks back to the administrative law scholars Frank Goodnow, Ernst Freund, and Bruce Wyman for Les...

Among the contributions to the symposium Executive Discretion and the Administrative State in the Case Western Reserve Law Review 65 (2015...

Quid Pro Books announces the publication of New Field, New Corn: Essays in Alabama Legal History , which the press describes as “an anthol...