Legal History Blog

Over on Process , the blog of the Organization of American Historians, Jonathan Gienapp , an Assistant Professor in the Department of Histor...

Curtis Nyquist, New England Law , has posted Re-Reading Legal Realism and Tracing a Genealogy of Balancing : The enclosed article offers a...

Carwyn Jones, Victoria University of Wellington has published New Treaty, New Tradition: Reconciling New Zealand and Māori Law with UBC ...

[We're moving this up, because Professor Sawyer's paper is now downloadable.] Logan Everett Sawyer III, University of Georgia Law ...

Much on the program of the upcoming Business History Conference , Denver, Colorado, March 30, 2017 to April 1, 2017, will be of interest to ...

[We have the following announcement.] The Editorial Board of the  Socio-Legal Review   is proud to announce the launch of its online c...

On the eve of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch's confirmation hearings, here's Akhil Reed Amar 's New York Times op-ed on originalisms, l...

Judge Neil Gorsuch’ s favorite book on the history of the administrative state?  Hint: It’s not Jerry Mashaw’s Creating the Administrativ...

[In honor of St. Patrick's Day, we're reposting this.  To see why it's in honor of St. Patrick's Day, though, you'll hav...

Last spring, Lawrin Armstrong, University of Toronto published The Idea of a Moral Economy: Gerard of Siena on Usury, Restitution, and Pr...

[We have the following announcement.] Explore the life and career of the influential jurist, the second Jewish Justice (after Louis Brande...

[We have the following announcement.] The Bard High School Early Colleges (BHSEC) seek to improve public education by offering a diverse g...

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

Mary Ziegler, Florida State University College of Law , has posted two papers.  The first is The New Negative Rights: Abortion Funding and C...

HNN has this year’s Bancroft Prize winners: Andrés Reséndez , University of California, Davis, for The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story...

Nicola Giocoli, Department of Law, University of Pisa , has posted Elevating Competition: Classical Political Economy in Justice Peckham...

Continuing today’s theme, the history of corporation law, we note that José Engrácia Antunes and Nuno Pinheiro Torres have posted On the H...

Thilo Kuntz, University of Bremen Faculty of Law , has posted German Corporate Law in the 20th Century , which is forthcoming in Research Ha...

Amy Westbrook, Washburn University School of Law , and David A. Westbrook, SUNY Buffalo Law School , have posted Unicorns, Guardians, and th...

[We are moving up our original post of this CFP for ASLH 2017 because the deadline has just been extended to April 3 .   More information on...

Today in Princeton’s Law and Public Affairs Workshop: Comparing Law, Race, Slavery and Freedom in the Americas: Freedom Suits in Cuba, Louis...

Rebecca Johnson, University of Victoria Faculty of Law , has posted Justice and the Colonial Collision: Reflections on Stories of Intercultu...

Daniel J. Sharfstein, Vanderbilt Law School , has published Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce Wa...

Anders Walker, Saint Louis University , draws upon his forthcoming book, The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Paradox of Diversity (Yale Uni...

Legal historians, indulge your interests in war, crime, and Nazi Germany with this week's book reviews:   In the NY Times , one ...