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Monday, June 27, 2022

Priel on the Myth of Legal Realist Skepticism

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

Green, "Separating Church and State"

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Cornell University Press has published by Separating Church and State , by Steven K. Green ( Willamette University ). A description from th...
Sunday, June 26, 2022

Roundup: Legal Historians on Dobbs

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

Ph.D. Program in Global History and Governance in Naples

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[We have the following announcement of a Ph.D. Program in Global History and Governance.  DRE] Seven 4-year doctoral scholarships are availa...
Saturday, June 25, 2022

Weekend Roundup

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We heard that the recently concluded "Unsettling Law," a conference on Law, Culture and the Humanities at Emory Law included sever...
Friday, June 24, 2022

Schneiderman Reviews Orford's "International Law and the Politics of History"

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

Schmidt on Brown and Constitutional History of Reconstruction (and a Postscript on Hurst and Gutman)

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Christopher W. Schmidt, Chicago-Kent College of Law and the American Bar Foundation , has posted Brown , History, and the Fourteenth Amendm...
Thursday, June 23, 2022

Roberts on the Global Red Scare, 1913-1927

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Christopher M. Roberts, Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, has posted The Global Red Scare and the Anti-Worker Repressive Mode...
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

LHR 40:2

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

Schwartz on Treanor on Gouverneur Morris

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New in MLR Online: David S. Schwartz ’s Framing the Framer: A Commentary on Treanor’s Gouverneur Morris as “Dishonest Scrivener, ” a respons...
Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Wonnacott's "Forgotten Land Law"

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

Berger and Scherpa on Mohegan Women and the Mohegan Church

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Bethany Berger, University of Connecticut School of Law , and Chloe Scherpa, have posted Mohegan Women, the Mohegan Church, and the Lasting...
Monday, June 20, 2022

Mechanick on Common-Law Arbitrary and Capricious Review

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Alexander Mechanick , Policy Advisor, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget, has posted The I...
Saturday, June 18, 2022

Weekend Roundup

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The Supreme Court Historical Society has announced the virtual conversation, The Jay Family of New York: Abolition, Slavery and an Enslaved...
Friday, June 17, 2022

Ross to Lecture on the Rule of Law in British North America

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

Early Illinois Supreme Court Case Files to Be Digitized

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[We have the following announcement from John A. Lupton, Executive Director of the Illinois Supreme Court Historic Preservation Commission. ...
Thursday, June 16, 2022

Recent Books on the Constitution: A Reading List

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Over at Volokh Conspiracy, my Georgetown Law colleague Randy Barnett has listed the selections for his seminar, “Recent Books on the Cons...
Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Bowie and Rast on Chinese Exclusion and the "Imaginary Immigration Clause"

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

Zelenak and Mehrotra on Surrey

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Lawrence Zelenak, Duke University School of Law , and Ajay K. Mehrotra American Bar Foundation and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law , ha...
Tuesday, June 14, 2022

The Docket's Special Issue on Hobbs

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

CfC: Journal for Digital Legal History

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 [We have the following Call for Contributions.  DRE] The Journal for Digital Legal History (DLH) is a diamond Open Access and peer-reviewe...
Monday, June 13, 2022

Atkinson, "Frankenstein’s Baby: The Forgotten History of Corporations, Race, and Equal Protection"

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

Rawlings on a Thieftaker and Gaoler

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Philip Rawlings, Queen Mary University of London, School of Law, has posted The Highwayman's Case: John Everett - Soldier, Robber, Publi...
Saturday, June 11, 2022

Weekend Roundup

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"The Unknown History of Reproductive Rights and Eugenics: From Skinner to Roe," a webinar co-sponsored by the Georgetown Universit...
Friday, June 10, 2022

CFP: "Legacies of Slavery | Landscapes of Segregation"

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

Mazzone on Incorporating the Guarantee Clause

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Jason Mazzone, University of Illinois College of Law , has posted The Incorporation of the Republican Guarantee Clause , which is forthcomin...
Thursday, June 9, 2022

CFP: "Somerset v. Steuart @ 250"

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

Legal & Literary Perspectives on Fox-hunting

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Ross Davies 's edited work, Regulation & Imagination: Legal & Literary Perspectives on Fox-hunting , is now out from Green Bag P...
Wednesday, June 8, 2022

JPH 34:3

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

Tate's "Power and Justice in Medieval England"

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Joshua C. Tate,  SMU Dedman School of Law , has published Power and Justice in Medieval England: The Law of Patronage and the Royal Courts ...
Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Legal History at the American Political History Conference, June 9-11, 2022

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