Legal History Blog

 We’ve started reading Jesse Tarbert’s When Good Government Meant Big Government: The Quest to Expand Federal Power, 1913–1933 (Columbia Un...

G. Edward White, Virginia Law is interviewed on the Learning Curve Podcast.  Aditya Bamzai , also Virginia Law , is interviewed on The Ra...

It's now out in print, from the Cambridge University Press: Mark V. Tushnet, Harvard Law School , has published The Hughes Court: From P...

Gregory Ablavsky, Stanford Law School , has posted Akhil Amar's Unusable Past , which is forthcoming in the Michigan Law Review : This e...

Scott D. Gerber, Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law , has posted Liberal Originalism in Connecticut Constitutional Interpretatio...

Recently published in the Stanford Law Review : " Brown and Red: Defending Jim Crow in Cold War America ," by Gregory Briker (Ya...

Reva Siegel (Yale Law School) has posted " The Politics of Constitutional Memory ," forthcoming in the Georgetown Journal of Law ...

 [We have the following announcement.   DRE.] The Queen Mary School of Law, School of History, the Institute for Social Sciences and the Hum...

I am honored more than I can possibly say to be delivering the 2022 Maurice and Muriel Fulton Lectureship in Legal History from 12:15PM – 1:...

[This post is for anyone who, likes me, teaches Shelley v. Kraemer , in a first-year Property class and has wished for a note on the decisio...

In the New Rambler : Jonas Bens ( Freie Universität Berlin ) reviews Empire and the Making of Native Title: Sovereignty, Property and Indi...

Paula A. Monopoli, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law , has posted Feminist Legal History and Legal Pedagogy , which al...

We have the following Call for Papers: International conference, Paris, 26-27 January 2023 Varieties of supervision: The surveillance of ban...

Ntina Tzouvala, ANU College of Law , has posted The Specter of Eurocentrism in International Legal History , which appears in the Yale Journ...

William Novak ’s Philip Pro Lecture in Legal History at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, last week, is no...

[We are happy to post this Call for Projects and Proposals from the American Society for Legal History .  DRE.] The Projects and Proposals...

The University of Illinois Chicago notes the receipt of the Bancroft Dissertation Prize by Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez , “a socio-legal historia...

Jason W. Yackee, University of Wisconsin Law School , has posted Colonialism, Foreign Investment and Property Rights Reconsidered , a paper ...

K. J. Kesselring and Tim Stretton have published Marriage, Separation, and Divorce in England, 1500-1700 , with the Oxford University Pres...

The Supreme Court Historical Society has announced two events.  The first is Mary Sarah Bilder, BC Law , who on April 12, 2022, at 3 pm (ED...

Peter Karol, New England Law , has posted Albrecht Durer's Enforcement Actions: A Trademark Origin Story, which is forthcoming in the Va...

William S. Dodge, University of California, Davis School of Law, Maggie Gardner, Cornell Law School , and Christopher A. Whytock, University...

“Topics in American Legal History,” an online symposium of the Quinnipiac University School of Law, takes place from 12-5 p.m. on Friday, Ma...

"Rules and Exceptions: Casuistry, Equity, and Prerogative," the 2021-22 Cotterrell Lecture in Sociological Jurisprudence delivered...

Matthew J. Steilen, SUNY at Buffalo Law School , has posted Life and Afterlife in the Steel Seizure Case , which is forthcoming in the Buff...

 [We have the following announcement.  DRE] The Georgetown Legal History Colloquium continues on Monday, March 21 from 3:30-5:00, with Rabia...

It must be that time of year: We recently received word of the award of three leading fellowships in Legal History.  First, the Berger-Howe:...

 The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has issued the following request for proposals for "publication of a history of the Unit...

[The Federal Judicial Center has a new exhibit, The Role of the U.S. Courts of Appeals in the Federal Judiciary .  Here’s the introduction....

On Wednesday, March 30, Professor Nils Jansen will give the Wilson Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh Law School.  His topic will be "H...

New from the University of North Carolina Press: The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification , ...