Legal History Blog

Robert F. Drinan, SJ ( LC ) [We have the following announcement, about a fellowship program named after an adored colleague of mine at Georg...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] The CSCHS Research Travel Grant in California Legal History .  The California Supreme Court Histo...

  Jeff Forret (Lamar University) published Williams' Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts with Cambridge Univ...

Chris Land, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law , has posted The Origination Clause’s Missing Piece , which is forthcoming in the...

Jesse Cross, University of South Carolina School of Law , and Abbe R. Gluck, Yale Law School , has posted The Congressional Bureaucracy , wh...

[We have the following Call for Papers.  DRE.] Slavery: Past, Present & Future: 5th Global Meeting, July 7-9, 2021.  To be held online o...

[I have the following announcement from my Georgetown Law colleagues K-Sue Park and Kevin Arlyck.   DRE] The Georgetown Legal History Colloq...

  Carolyn Steedman (University of Warwick) published History and the Law: A Love Story with Cambridge University Press in 2020. From the p...

John Vlahoplus has posted Early Delegations of Federal Powers , which is forthcoming in the George Washington Law Review Arguendo : Conserv...

If it finally gets us a history of correspondence legal education, Zoom Law School won’t have been all bad.  Former LHB Guest Blogger Berna...

On Monday, February 22, at 1:15 PM EST, Cornell University is sponsoring a discussion of Antoine Vauchez and Pierre France ’s The Neoliberal...

Celebrating Legal Heroes (during Black History Month) at UVA Law .  At the Riesenfeld Rare Books Center, University of Minnesota Law Librar...

 [We have the following announcement.  DRE.] The [ American Society for Legal History ] welcomes applications for the Kathryn T. Preyer Scho...

Peter Conti-Brown and Brian D. Feinstein, University of Pennsylvania , on The Contingent Origins of Financial Legislation : Courts and scho...

Kevin Y. L. Tan (National University of Singapore/Nanyang Technological University) and Ridwanul Hoque (University of Dhaka/Charles Darwin ...

Jack M. Balkin, Yale Law School , has posted R ace and The Cycles of Constitutional Time, which is forthcoming in the Missouri Law Review :...

Stephen Morse, University of Pennsylvania Law School , has posted Before and after Hinckley : Legal Insanity in the United States , which is...

The University of Connecticut Business & Human Rights Workshop is hosting a virtual workshop tomorrow (Thursday, February 18) with Aaron...

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 (We share the following announcement  about the papers of S.J.V.Chelvanayakam, Tamil lawyer and leader in 1950s-70s Sri Lanka, which will s...

Today, at 6:30 ET: After the Riot: Partisanship and Political Life in the Wake of January 6 , at the Princeton School of Public and Internat...

A year ago, the Journal of Catholic Legal Studies and the Center for Law and Religion at St. John’s University School of Law, hosted a symp...

Elizabeth Chika Tippett, University of Oregon School of Law , has posted Enslaved Agents: Business Transactions Negotiated by Slaves in the ...

[We have the following announcement from the American Society for Legal History .  DRE] The Program Committee of the ASLH is currently acce...

Maïa Pal, Oxford Brookes University , has published Jurisdictional Accumulation: An Early Modern History of Law, Empires, and Capital (Cambr...

From the Smithsonian Magazine : " Meet Joseph Rainey, the First Black Congressman ."  From Martha Jones (Johns Hopkins), in the op...

David S. Schwartz, University of Wisconsin Law School , has posted Recovering the Lost General Welfare Clause : The General Welfare Clause o...

The Supreme Court Historical Society and the Georgetown Center for the Constitution have announced that on Thursday, April 22, 2021, Martha ...

Simon & Schuster has published Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History (Feb. 2021), by Richard Ford Thompson (Stanford Law S...

On February 23, 2021, at 2 p.m. EST, the American Historical Association will host an event titled “Our Country Is Full”: Roots and Conseque...

  Sascha Auerbach (University of Nottingham) has published Armed with Sword and Scales: Law, Culture, and Local Courtrooms in London, 1860-...

At 7PM this evening, Laura Edwards speaks to the National Humanities Center Virtual Book Club on her A Legal History of the Civil War and R...

Claire Priest, Yale Law School , has published Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early America (Princeton University Press):...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] Third Legal Histories of Empire Conference The organising committee is delighted to confirm the r...

  Wesley Cheney (Bates College) has published "Threats to Gong: Environmental Change and Social Transformation in Northwest China"...

American Journal of Legal History 60: 3 (September 2020) has been published.   The Southern and Western Prehistory of “Liberty of Contract”...

Tamika Y. Nunley, Oberlin College, has published At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. ...

Robert B. Stevens ( UCSC ) Robert Bocking Stevens , the author of the indispensable Law Schools: Legal Education in America: 1850-1960 (198...

John Christopoulos (University of British Columbia) has published Abortion in Early Modern  Italy with Harvard University Press. From the ...