Legal History Blog

John Witte, Emory University School of Law , has posted John Calvin , which appears in Great Christian Jurists in French History , ed. Olivi...

Adam White, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School , has posted John Marshall's Judicial Statesmanship in McCulloch v. Maryl...

Over at New Books in Law, Jonathan Gienapp (Stanford University) discusses his book The Second Creation ; former guest blogger Kimberly ...

Dylan Lino, University of Western Australia Law School , has posted The Rule of Law and the Rule of Empire: A.V. Dicey in Imperial Context ,...

William R. Casto , the Paul Whitfield Horn Professor at Texas Tech University , will speak on his book Advising the President: Attorney Gen...

John Mikhail, Georgetown University Law Center , has posted The 2018 Seegers Lecture: Emoluments and President Trump , forthcoming in the Va...

Philip Loft, University of Cambridge has published "Litigation, the Anglo-Scottish Union, and the House of Lords as the High Court, 1...

Out any day now from Oxford University Press: Intimate Lies and the Law , by Jill Elaine Hasday (University of Minnesota). In canvassing a...

Patrick C. File, University of Nevada, Reno has published Bad News Travels Fast: The Telegraph, Libel, and Press Freedom in the Progressive...

Hugh D. Spitzer, University of Washington School of Law , has posted Be Careful What You Wish For: Private Political Parties, Public Primari...

Lea S. VanderVelde, University of Iowa College of Law, has posted Servitude and Captivity in the Common Law of Master-Servant: Judicial Int...

HistPhil has launched an "online forum marking the 200th anniversary of the Supreme Court case Dartmouth College v. Woodward , a lan...

Raff Donelson, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge , has posted The Nihilist , which appears in The Pragmatism and Prejudice of Oliver W...

Dave Tell, University of Kansas has published Remembering Emmett Till with the University of Chicago Press. From the publisher:  Take a...

Steven Wilf (University of Connecticut School of Law) has posted notice of " The Legal Treatise ," which is a contribution to the...

Reuven S. Avi-Yonah University of Michigan Law School , and two SJD candidates at Michigan Law, Nir Fishbien and Gianluca Mazzoni , have po...

Harvard University Press has released Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father (June 2019), by  Nara B. Milamich (Barnard College). A d...

Sohaira Siddiqui, Georgetown University Qatar has edited  Locating the Shar īʿa : Legal Fluidity in Theory, History and Practice . Out wi...

Hiroshi Okayama , Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Law at Keio University , Tokyo, Japan, has published Judicializing the Ad...

Louis Michael Seidman, Georgetown University Law Center , has posted Why Bernie is Confused: Populist and Progressive Strands in Liberal Con...

Charles Evans Hughes and The Role of New York's Organized Bar at a Time of Crisis for the Rule of Law , the 55th Charles Evans Hughes ...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] PhD Program in Global History and Governance, Scuola Superiore Meridionale at the University of N...

We have the following job posting : ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, CRIMINOLOGY, LAW AND SOCIETY The Department of Criminology, Law and Societ...

Just out with NYU Press is Loving Justice: Legal Emotions in William Blackstone's England by Kathryn D. Temple, Georgetown University....

[We have the following announcement from the Directors of the Brazilian Institute for Legal History.  The citation for Professor Hespanha wh...

New York University Press has released Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (April 2...

I'm catching up on my JOTWELL reading and realizing we never posted about Allison Madar 's recent contribution for the Legal Histor...

Via Twitter , we've learned that Professor Maureen E. Brady of the University of Virginia School of Law is moving to Harvard Law School...

Jessica K. Lowe, University of Virginia , published Murder in the Shenandoah: Making Law Sovereign in Revolutionary Virginia with Cambridg...

Victoria Barnes , and Emily Whewell, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, have posted English Contract Law Moves East: Legal Tr...

[We have the following call for papers.  DRE] Professions and Methods in Comparative Legal History, 1-3 July 2020, University of Lisbon, P...

Advance alerts from Law and History Review and Cambridge Core: Originalism and the Academy in Exile , by Paul Baumgardner , and Trial wi...

[We're moving this up, because the deadline is Sunday, June 30 .] The Institute for Constitutional History is pleased to announce anot...

I was sad to learn of the recent death of Charles Reich , an important figure in U.S. legal and political history. The headlines marking hi...