Legal History Blog

Two series of posts elsewhere in the blogosphere this week are noteworthy for legal historians. Balkinization is hosting a symposium on Dav...

Oxford University Press has published Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America (2019), by Caleb McDaniel ...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] Boston-Area Graduate Students Welcome at ASLH Meeting in November A special walk-up registratio...

Ashley T. Rubin, University of Hawaii Mānoa, Hawaiʻi has published " Early US Prison History Beyond Rothman: Revisiting The Discovery...

As I've occasionally noted , the Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit has an extensive oral history collection of the...

Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words , a new exhibit at the Library of Congress, opens December 5. From the Washington Post 's "Made ...

Next week (Nov. 15/16) the University of Baltimore School of Law will host a two-day symposium "examining the impact of slavery on th...

Law and History Review 37:4 (November 2019) has just been published online .  Here’s the TOC: Original Articles Of “Masculine Tyranny” ...

We missed this one back in 2017. Martti Koskenniemi, Walter Rech , and Manuel Jiminez Fonseca (all at the University of Helsinki) co-edit...

Dalia Tsuk Mitchell, George Washington University Law School , has posted From Dodge to eBay: The Elusive Corporate Purpose , which appeare...

[We have the following announcement.  Note: the deadline for applications is December 30, 2019. ] The Law of Nations and the Early American ...

[We are moving up this previously posted CFP, as we now have a link for the conference.  Note well the deadline of December 1, 2019 .  DRE]...

“It is cool to be a legal historian.” That’s a sentence I never expected to write (or to hear) when I began my doctoral training in 1973...

Daniel D. Birk , a visiting assistant professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law , has posted Interrogating the Historical Basis for a Uni...

The Columbia Law Review has published " Immigrant Sanctuary as the 'Old Normal': A Brief History of Police Federalism ," ...

The Legal and Social History Workshop  at Cambridge University "welcomes speakers and attendees working on or interested in socio-lega...

Renisa Mawani, University of British Columbi a, will speak Thursday, Nov. 7, at the University of Oregon on "the S.S. Komagata Maru, ...

Sarah C. Haan, Washington and Lee University School of Law , has posted Civil Rights and Shareholder Activism: SEC v. Medical Committee for ...

We are delighted that our guest blogger in November 2019 is  Prof. Hendrik Hartog , Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of ...

We are happy to have had Professor Fahad Bishara (University of Virginia) join us as guest blogger in October 2019. Here is a list of his p...

Western Legal History 30:1-2 (2019), is a symposium issue on woman suffrage in the American West, with an overview, “How the Woman’s Vote w...

[The Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit has an excellent collection of oral histories of lawyers and judges active in ...

David J. Gerber, Chicago-Kent College of Law , has posted a pre-publication draft of Prisms of Distance and Power: Viewing the U.S. Regulato...

Omar Farahat, McGill University has published T he Foundation of Norms in Islamic Jurisprudence and Theology with Cambridge University Pre...

Eric L. Muller, University of North Carolina School of Law, has posted The War Relocation Authority and the Wounding of Japanese American L...