Legal History Blog

Perhaps like us you have overlooked recent online essays by the historians of the Federal Judicial Center .  The very latest is Jake Kobrick...

Hughes on the Stump (NYPL) On Thursday, October 15, 2026, at 6:00 p.m., John Q. Barrett, St. John’s Law , will deliver the 59th Charles Evan...

[We have the following CFP.  DRE.] Doing History in Law.  Friday, February 26, 2027, 9am to 5pm EST (virtual online) The Center for Constitu...

UC Law SF has posted a lovely interview of an excellent and exemplary legal historian, Reuel Schiller .  A really interesting post by Nath...

Elliott A. King, Cornell Law School  (J.D. 2027), has published his  Whose History, Which Tradition? An Examination of Historical Sources in...

Li Chen, University of Toronto , has posted Rethinking the Chinese Legal Tradition: Ideological Formations and Their Disputed Legacy : After...

Barry Sullivan and Arete Tsoukalas, Loyola University Chicago School of Law , have posted Watergate, the Roberts Court, and the Independence...

[ Via H-Law , we have the following announcement.  DRE] To mark the 25th anniversary of the publication of The Many Legalities of Early Amer...

Those of you who follow Legal History Blog on X have probably noted that clicking on links in our posts no longer work take you to the corre...

Sevgi Çetin, Samsun Bar Association , has posted The Formative Years of the Legal Profession in Turkey , “an extended version of the present...

Aimee M. Genell, Boston University , has published Empire by Law: The Ottoman Origins of the Mandate System in the Middle East (Columbia Un...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities is excited to announce that we...

Imprisonment in Early Modern England: Politics, Debt and the Origins of a Carceral Society (Cambridge University Press), by Richard Thomas ...

The University of Pennsylvania Legal History Workshop has posted its fall schedule : October 15: Tomiko Brown-Nagin  (Harvard Law, appointe...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE.] The Journal of Legal History is a thriving legal history journal, with a primary focus on the l...

Thanks to guest blogger Gautham Rao  (American University) for joining us for the month of September!  Rao's posts focused on his recent...

Rephael Stern, Boston University School of Law , has posted Inventing Israel's Legal Space , which is forthcoming in the University of P...

Another interview of Tracy Thomas about her The First Woman Judge: The Life and Legacy of Florence Allen , this time in Above the Law .   T...

The Chicago-Kent Law Review will host the virtual symposium, Who Belongs? The Contested History of Birthright Citizenship , on Friday, Octo...

Adam Lee Cilli, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg , has published Confronting Police Aggression: The NAACP's Legal Advocacy Work du...

Ryan C. Williams, Brooklyn Law School , has posted Murray's Lessee , Non-Article III Adjudication, and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 , ...

Amanda Shanor and Serena Mayeri , University of Pennsylvania , have posted Executive Domination: Separation of Powers and Constitutional Ch...

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[Via H-Law, we have the following announcement.  DRE] We are pleased to announce the publication of the new Open Access digital facsimile ed...

[We have the following announcement .  DRE] Constitutions, Everywhere!  Practicing Constitutionalism in Unexpected Times and Places in early...

John Fabian Witt, Yale Law School , will deliver the 2026 McCorkle Lecture , “Power Not Rights: The Secret History of 20th-Century Constitut...

[We have the following announcement .  DRE] The Osgoode Society Legal History Workshop is an informal evening seminar, starting at 6.30 p.m...

New from the University of Chicago Press:  Writing with Fire: The Cowboy Suit Tragedy and the Course of a Life , by Barbara Young Welke (Un...

Tracy Thomas , the Seiberling Chair of Constitutional Law, University of Akron School of Law , has published The First Woman Judge: The Life...

Jonathan Yovel, University of Haifa Faculty of Law,  has The Dreyfus Affair: A Law and Literature Account of a Law and Literature Affair , w...

Jack Rakove on "The Unitary Executive Theory in All of Its Historical Perversity" ( Washington Monthly ).  Meet Magdalene Zier , ...

Avi Koenig-Winter , a student at the Columbia Law School, has posted All Aboard! Regulating Locomotive Engineers : Academic treatment of loc...