Legal History Blog

We have word of two upcoming events sponsored by the Supreme Court Historical Society .  On  “November 10, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. EST, the Socie...

Jonathan Weinberg, Wayne State University Law School , has posted Wong Kim Ark Rewritten , which is forthcoming in Feminist Judgments: Immi...

The American Society for Legal History has posted an updated schedule for its upcoming meeting in New Orleans, November 4-6.  "Sever...

Notre Dame Press has published The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision , by Erika Bachiochi (Ethics and Public Policy Center / Abigail...

The Stanford Center for Law and History has announced a fellowship “intended for people who have recently completed (or will soon complete...

Sarah Seo, Columbia Law School , has posted a very nice essay, User's Guide to History , which is forthcoming in the Research Handbook o...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE]   The Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties (CRCL) at Stanford Law School seeks...

Brill has published The State of Nature: Histories of an Idea , edited by Mark Somos (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) and Anne Peters (Ma...

The American Historical Association has announced its prizes for 2021.  The Littleton-Griswold Prize in US law and society, broadly define...

The University of North Carolina Press has published Cruising for Conspirators: How a New Orleans DA Prosecuted the Kennedy Assassination as...

I taught Bradwell this week and wanted to be able to tell my students that Joseph C. Bradley's name came down from a Rutgers-Newark bui...

Omer Aloni, Bar-Ilan University , has published The League of Nations and the Protection of the Environment (Cambridge University Press): I...

Jessica Litman, University of Michigan Law School , has posted Edward S. Rogers, the Lanham Act, and the Common Law , which is forthcoming i...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] Northwestern University’s Center for Legal Studies invites applications for a full-time, benefit...

In my first post , I briefly sketched how my personal experiences and formal training led me to legal history. In this post, I will explai...

Issue 4:3 of The Docket , the on-line companion to Law and History Review , has just gone live .   Monika Polzin–The Beginning of the Search...

We have the following line-up for the Common Law Research Seminar, entitled, Legal Transfer in the Common Law World , convened by Stefan Vog...

The Centre for English Legal History announced its “Michaelmas 2021 term card.”  The first two sessions will be on line; the third in perso...

Gregory Ablavsky, Stanford Law School , has posted Getting Public Rights Wrong: The Lost History of the Private Land Claims , which is forth...

 [We share the following announcement. The deadline is 3 Jan. 2022.] Stanford Center for Law and History Graduate Student Annual Conference ...

We have the schedule, subject to change, for the MPI-TAU Transnational Legal History Workshop for the Fall Semester, 2021-2022.  The worksho...

It’s hard to imagine a more timely book or an author who has devoted more thought and research to his subject.  Lewis A. Grossman, American ...

 [We share the following announcement.] Eliza T eixeira de Toledo (Casa de Oswaldo Cruz-Fiocruz, Brazil) and Daniel Grey (University of Hert...

Christopher Beauchamp, Brooklyn Law School , has posted Oliver Evans and the Framing of American Patent Law , which he published in the Case...

Kenneth W. Mack, Harvard Law School , has posted Critical Race Theory and Scholarly Analyses of Race in France : This preface to a special i...

Katherine Hermes, Central Connecticut State University , will discuss the “significant contributions to Connecticut law and society” made by...