Legal History Blog

  We're delighted to have had Tom Johnson ( University of York) join us as guest blogger in July 2021. Many thanks for his insightful s...

( NYPL ) [We have the following from the Historical Society of New York Courts .   DRE.] Program on the 1863 Civil War Draft Riots in NY .  ...

Just out: Helen J. Knowles, Associate Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Oswego , has published Making M...

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David Muchlinski (Georgia Tech) has published the following article: "Swords and Plowshares: Property Rights, Collective Action, and No...

My Georgetown Law colleague Gregory Klass has posted Arthur Linton Corbin , which is forthcoming in Scholars of Contract Law , ed. James G...

Mark Tushnet might be emeritus , but he is still favoring with penetrating of readings of books of interest to legal historians.  Over at Ba...

The Historical Society of the New York Courts has posted the podcast Litchfield Law School’s Influence on NY State Bench & Bar and a You...

Now published: Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis / Revue d'Histoire du Droit / The Legal History Review 89: 1-2 (July 2021): Artikele...

Thomas Cooley ( NYPL ) The Sixth Annual Salmon P. Chase Lecture, sponsored by the Georgetown Center for the Constitution and the Supreme Cou...

Rotem Giladi (Hebrew University) has published Jews, Sovereignty, and International Law Ideology and Ambivalence in Early Israeli Legal D...

At Noon (EDT), September 17, 2021, Sam Erman , Professor of Law, Gould Law School, University of Southern California , will deliver the Inau...

 [We have the following CFP .  H/t: Liz Papp Kamali.  DRE] International Congress on Medieval Studies This call for papers includes all spon...

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A new issue of The Docket , the online companion of Law & History Review, the journal of the American Society for Legal History, is no...

Ungated for now: Alasdair Roberts , Bearing the White Man’s Burden: American Empire and the Origin of Public Administration , Perspectives o...

Harwell Wells, James E. Beasley School of Law, Temple University, has posted Shareholder Meetings and Freedom Rides: The Story of Peck v Gre...

Mark Condos (King's College London) published this article last year: "The Indian 'Alsatia': Sovereignty, Extradition, and...

The Centre for English Legal History’s recent talk with former LHB Guest Blogger Thomas McSweeney, William & Mary Law on his book, Prie...

Via Just Security, we learned that the Knight Institute has "publish[ed] fourteen indexes cataloging the titles of more than a thousa...

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Daniel Larsen, Trinity College, University of Cambridge , has posted Before “National Security”: The Espionage Act of 1917 and the Concept o...

We’ve received word of a new blog, Legal History Insights , launched by the Historical Regimes of Normativity ( Historische Normativitätsreg...

On July 20-22, 2021, from 2-4PM EDT each day, the Supreme Court Historical Society, the White House Historical Association (WHHA), and the U...

 [We share the following update on the Asian Legal History conference, which is happening later this month. Further information is available...

Prettyman Courthouse ( Highsmith ) Over at In Custodia Legis , Ryan Reft , a historian of the modern United States focusing on domestic poli...

  John M. Collins (Eastern Washington University) published the following article last year: "The Long Parliament and the Law of Neces...

Ntina Tzouvala (Australian National University College of Law ) published Capitalism As Civilisation: A History of International Law with Ca...

The introduction to a symposium in Diplomatic History, U.S. Foreign Relations Historians Writing their Way out of COVID-19 , by Anne L Fost...

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