Legal History Blog

From the op-ed pages of the New York Times : " Trump Says Birthright Citizenship Was Only for the Children of Slaves. He’s Wrong "...

Casey Eilbert, Johns Hopkins University , has published Architects of the Administrative State: Public Administration in the Twentieth Centu...

[ Via ESCLH Blog , we have the following announcement.  DRE] The journal Comparative Legal History is pleased to announce that its website ...

"The Selden Society regularly funds a Milsom Studentship for a person undertaking research in English legal history leading to the de...

Thomas H. Lee, Fordham University School of Law , has posted The Citizenship Clause's Residence Requirement : The debate about President...

Kurt Lash, University of Richmond School of Law , has posted The Allegiance Reading of the Citizenship Clause and Its Critics: A Response : ...

We're a bit late in noticing it, but the  American Journal of Legal History 64:4 has been published :  Mr Locke’s enclosure: the uncomm...

[We have the following announcement from the ASLH.  DRE.] The American Society for Legal History (ASLH) is delighted to announce a new diss...

Law and History Review 44: 1 (February 2026) has been published , open access, online.  It is a joint special issue with The William and Ma...

Daniel Newman ,  Cardiff University , has published Law and Justice in Song Murder Ballads and Popular Music (Routledge): This book examine...

Bruce Ackerman, Yale Law School , has posted Barrett’s Red Flag: Why the Court Should Order Re-argument in Trump v. Slaughter : William E. H...

Alejandro E. Camacho and Brigham Daniels have published Lessons for a Warming Planet: A Vital History of US Environmental Law  (NYU Press):...

Harwell Wells, Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law , has posted The Unexpected Origins of the US Limited Liability Partnershi :...

The Asian Legal History Association  has hosted its official launch in Hong Kong ( The Standard ).  The speech of the Secretary for Justice,...

David Freeman Engstrom, David Marcus and Elliot Setzer have published Managerial Courts in the Yale Law Journal : In recent decades, Ame...

Benjamin Schonthal, University of Otago , has published Courts, Constitutions and Karma Buddhism, Law and the Practices of Legal Pluralism i...

The official date is still about a week hence, but because the book is already getting noticed in social media, we’ll note now the imminent ...

John Witte, Jr.,  Emory University School of Law, an eminent historian of law and religion, has posted a number of his papers, most (but no...

Maya Mark has published Civil Disobedience in Defense of Democracy: Menachem Begin's Struggle Against Emergency Laws in Israel, 1948–19...

Michael Birnhack, Tel Aviv University Buchmann Faculty of Law , has posted Colonial Patents: Industrial Property Law and Nationality in Mand...

A head's up to those thinking about submitting proposals for the annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History in Banff, No...

Amanda Borwegen and Ajay K. Mehrotra, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law , have posted The Beginnings of the One Big Beautiful B...

Reva Siegel, Yale Law School , has posted It's Alive! When the Original Meaning of "Person" Protected by the Fourteenth Amendm...

Thomas P. Schmidt and Kellen Funk, Columbia Law School , have posted The Equity Docket , which is forthcoming in the NYU Law review: The Su...

Patrick J. Sobkowski, Marquette University , has posted Presidentialism at the Highest Ebb: Executive Power in the Age of Trump , which is f...

US Capitol ( NYPL ) The New York Historical’ s Bonnie and Richard Reiss Graduate Institute for Constitutional History has announced its spr...

We have previously noted some contributions to the symposium on Jonathan Gienapp ’s Against Constitutional Originalism in the Yale Journal...

Work, Capitalism, and Democracy: The United States Since the New Deal , edited by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer , has just been published by the U...

 [We have the following announcement.  DRE.] Nos complace informaros de la celebración del próximo Coloquio de Historia del Derecho de la UA...

Sonia Tycko , Lecturer in History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh , has published Captured...

Jeremy Kessler, Columbia  Law Schoo l, has posted Selective Service and the Separation of Powers , which is forthcoming in the Boston Univer...

On March 17, 2026, from 18:00-19:30, Philip Murray, Robinson College, Cambridge , will deliver the lecture Ducks or Rabbits? The History of ...

Ross E. Davies, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School , has posted A Wig Without a Home: The Comedic Wisdom of Sir Frederick Pol...

[We have the following CFP.  DRE]  Touro Law Review : Special Issue on Legal Humor Are you funny? Were you the life of the party in law scho...

Congratulations to  Allison Brownell Tirres, University of San Francisco School of Law , and to the American Journal of Legal History on Pr...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE.] The Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt/Main is a world leading...