Legal History Blog

Dan Priel, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University , has posted The Myth of Legal Realist Skepticism : Here are some things everyone know...

Cornell University Press has published by Separating Church and State , by Steven K. Green ( Willamette University ). A description from th...

In addition to the historians listed in yesterday's Weekend Roundup , we've since spotted Michele Goodwin , Joanna Grisinger , Felic...

[We have the following announcement of a Ph.D. Program in Global History and Governance.  DRE] Seven 4-year doctoral scholarships are availa...

We heard that the recently concluded "Unsettling Law," a conference on Law, Culture and the Humanities at Emory Law included sever...

David Schneiderman, University of Toronto - Faculty of Law , has posted his review of Anne Orford 's International Law and the Politics ...

Christopher W. Schmidt, Chicago-Kent College of Law and the American Bar Foundation , has posted Brown , History, and the Fourteenth Amendm...

Christopher M. Roberts, Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, has posted The Global Red Scare and the Anti-Worker Repressive Mode...

Law and History Review 40:2 (May 2022) is now available online : Using Topic-Modeling in Legal History, with an Application to Pre-Industri...

New in MLR Online: David S. Schwartz ’s Framing the Framer: A Commentary on Treanor’s Gouverneur Morris as “Dishonest Scrivener, ” a respons...

Mark Wonnacott has published Forgotten Land Law , with Talbot Publishing, an imprint of The Lawbook Exchange.  Mr. Wonnacott “spent more th...

Bethany Berger, University of Connecticut School of Law , and Chloe Scherpa, have posted Mohegan Women, the Mohegan Church, and the Lasting...

Alexander Mechanick , Policy Advisor, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget, has posted The I...

The Supreme Court Historical Society has announced the virtual conversation, The Jay Family of New York: Abolition, Slavery and an Enslaved...

On June 23rd, Richard Ross , the David C. Baum Professor of Law and Professor of History at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), ...

[We have the following announcement from John A. Lupton, Executive Director of the Illinois Supreme Court Historic Preservation Commission. ...

Over at Volokh Conspiracy, my Georgetown Law colleague Randy Barnett has listed the selections for his seminar, “Recent Books on the Cons...

Nikolas Bowie and Norah Rast have published The Imaginary Immigration Clause in the Michigan Law Review 120:7: For the past century, the...

Lawrence Zelenak, Duke University School of Law , and Ajay K. Mehrotra American Bar Foundation and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law , ha...

The Docket , which is the digital sidekick to Law and History Review , has just posted a special issue prompted by the leaked draft opinion...

 [We have the following Call for Contributions.  DRE] The Journal for Digital Legal History (DLH) is a diamond Open Access and peer-reviewe...

The Virginia Law Review has published " Frankenstein’s Baby: The Forgotten History of Corporations, Race, and Equal Protection ,"...

Philip Rawlings, Queen Mary University of London, School of Law, has posted The Highwayman's Case: John Everett - Soldier, Robber, Publi...

"The Unknown History of Reproductive Rights and Eugenics: From Skinner to Roe," a webinar co-sponsored by the Georgetown Universit...

We have the following Call for Papers/Panels: Legacies of Slavery | Landscapes of Segregation Universities Studying Slavery Fall 2022 Confer...

Jason Mazzone, University of Illinois College of Law , has posted The Incorporation of the Republican Guarantee Clause , which is forthcomin...

We have the following Call for Papers: Somerset v. Steuart @ 250: Facts, Interpretations, and Legacies In recent years, the Somerset v. Steu...

Ross Davies 's edited work, Regulation & Imagination: Legal & Literary Perspectives on Fox-hunting , is now out from Green Bag P...

Journal of Policy History 34:3 (July 2022) has been published online : Explaining the Prevalence of State Constitutional Conventions in the...

Joshua C. Tate,  SMU Dedman School of Law , has published Power and Justice in Medieval England: The Law of Patronage and the Royal Courts ...

The program for this week's American Political History Conference includes many items of note for readers of this blog. Here's a s...