Legal History Blog

Over at the LPEBlog: an interview by  Veena Dubal (University of California, Irvine) with  Aziza Ahmed (Boston University) on her new book...

John Cannan, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law , on Joel Bishop's Reign as King of the Treatise Writers and What it Mean...

Ela A. Leshem, Fordham University School of Law , has posted Normative Transplants: The Case of Ships as Legal Persons, which is forthcoming...

Joshua Aiken, American Bar Foundation Doctoral Fellow in Law & Inequality , has posted She Had Slain Her Favorite: Race, Gender, Violenc...

David Gans, Constitutional Accountability Center , has published Forgotten Framers: Black Conventions and the Second Founding , which is for...

G. Edward White, University of Virginia School of Law , has posted Taking Stock of Justice Souter , which is forthcoming in the Catholic Uni...

[Via ESCLH Blog , we have the following CFP.  SRE] Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians: “Values in law through the ages,” Adam Mickiewicz...

Performing Law: Actors, Affects, Spaces , edited by Peter Goodrich, Cardozo School of Law , A nna Jayne Kimmel, George Washington University...

Tanzil Chowdhury, Queen Mary University of London , will lecture on The British Constitution, capitalism and constitutional change at ANU L...

Congratulations to Hardeep Dhillon (University of Pennsylvania), who received the Early Career Achievement Award from the Association for ...

Jane Manners, Fordham University , and Lev Menand, Columbia Law School , have posted The Power to Remove For Cause : This Article reconstruc...

Zachary Price, UC Law, San Francisco , has posted Effectuating Congress's Power of the Purse : Congress’s power of the purse—its authori...

Nitisha Baronia, Jared Lucky , and Diego A. Zambrano have published Private Enforcement at the Founding and Article II in the California L...

Gregory Hayes , a 2025 graduate of Northwestern Law , has published The Failings of Post-War Japanese Antitrust Reforms,  in the Northwester...

Carolyn Strange, Australian National University , has published, open access, The Contestation of Penal Expertise in the Age of the Expert: ...

Modern American History 8:3 (November 2025) includes an open-access symposium on birthright citizenship: The Historical Paths to and from ...

Take this , Arthrex !    Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Yale University , and Rebecca S. Eisenberg, University of Michigan Law School , have posted Sep...

The Journal of the Civil War Era 16:1 (March 2026) is a special issue of interest to legal historians, assembled by its editors, Kate Masu...

Alli Orr Larsen and Thomas McSweeney, William & Mary Law School , have posted Medieval Treatises and the Judicial Search for a Usable P...

 [We have the following announcement.  DRE.  H/t: DS] The Twining-Llewellyn Fund is a unique collection of several hundred documents and wo...

Boston College Law 's notice of its new legal historian, Marco Basile ( BC Law ).    Mary Bilder, BC Law , will deliver “ The Perils of...

Donald A. Dripps, University of San Diego School of Law , has published Sentencing Discretion and the Constitution: Due Process of Time (Ox...

[We have the following CFP for a Forum on International Legal History & Philosophy at the Chanakya National Law University in Patna, Ind...

Jamison E. Colburn, Penn State Dickinson Law , has posted Nineteenth-Century Navigable Waters : The Supreme Court's doctrinal Odyssey wi...

Essays on the History of Equity , edited by David Foster and Charles Mitchell, University College London , has been published by Bloomsbury...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities is excited to announce that we...

Katy Barnett, Melbourne Law School, and Lynne Barnett have posted "Equity’s Darling" and the Burwood Ejectment Case: A Turning P...

[ Via H-Law , we have the following announcement.  DRE.] Please join the State Constitutions Lab on Thursday February 26 @ 1:00 PM (Eastern ...

New from Hart Law: Instruments of Peacemaking 1918-1941: The Failure of Diplomacy , by Michael Reynolds : This book is a sequel to Instrumen...

Maggie Blackhawk, New York University School of Law , has posted Foreword: The History of the Constitution is Our Future , which is forthcom...