Legal History Blog

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History: Law, Theology, and the Moral Regulation of &...

Kara W. Swanson, Northeastern University School of Law , has posted Inventing While a Black Woman: Passing and the Patent Archive , which is...

Congratulations to Myisha Eatmon (University of South Carolina), who will join the departments of History and African and African American ...

Sherally Munshi, Georgetown University Law Center , has posted Dispossession: An American Property Law Tradition , which appears in the Geor...

Ann Woolhandler, University of Virginia School of Law , has posted P ublic Rights and Taxation: A Brief Response to Professor Parrillo : A d...

The University of California Press has published The Deportation Express: A History of America through Forced Removal , by Ethan Blue (Uni...

Ashley Hannay , Lecturer in Property Law, University of Manchester , has posted the prepublication draft of his article "By fraud and ...

[We have the following call for papers for the conference Change over time in the Iberian Worlds: stabilising regimes of normativity.  DRE] ...

[We have the following announcement from the Asian Legal History Seminar Series.  DRE] Property, Religion, and State Formation: The Meiji Co...

The latest newsletter of the Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of Watergate. Ma...

[We have the following reminder of a CFP for the Asian Legal History Conference.  DRE] This is a gentle reminder that the submission deadlin...

Warren Swain, University of Auckland Faculty of Law, has posted The Laws of "An Old and Settled Society"? The Law of Contract in ...

[As I mentioned yesterday, the second of the two essays in my exam in my legal history course is biographical.  This year's follows; for...

[The exam in my American legal history course consists of two essays, one on the legal history of some regulatory regime my students did not...

Episode 8 of the podcast Advocates features legal historian Carlton Larson (UC Davis Law). He "describes how the Founding Fathers of...

 As 2021 comes to an end, I am also wrapping up my time as a Legal History Blogger. I've learned a huge amount about our field through t...

American Journal of Legal History 61:3 (September 2021) is now online . Articles Legal Ridicule in the Age of Advertisement: Puffery, Quack...

William H. Clune, University of Wisconsin Law School , has published Legal Realism to Law in Action: Innovative Law Courses at UW-Madison (...

Radha Kumar (Syracuse University) has published " Witnessing Violence, Witnessing as Violence: Police Torture and Power in Twentieth-Ce...

We are somewhat belatedly noting the appearance of the latest issue of GLOSSAE: European Journal of Legal History 18 (2021).  The Editoria...

Haruki Inagaki (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan) has published The Rule of Law and Emergency in Colonial India: Judicial Politics in the Ea...

Here’s a description of Citizenship and Claims of Belonging in Australian Law and History , a research project based at the University of Sy...

Cambridge University Press has published Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America,...

Kenneth S. Abraham, University of Virginia School of Law , and Tom Baker, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School have posted What Hist...

[We have the following Call for Papers for the 2022 ASLH Annual Meeting.  DRE] The Program Committee of the [ American Society for Legal His...

Blake Emerson, UCLA School of Law , has posted Executive (Administrative State) , a contribution to the Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional...

We recently learned of two articles you might have missed, both by Dominic DeBrincat, Missouri Western State University .  The first is The ...

American Journal of Legal History 61:2 (June 2021) is now online.   Revolutionary Criminal Punishments: Treason, Mercy, and the American Re...

Lincoln Caplan interviews Tomiko Brown-Nagin on the civil-rights movement in Harvard Magazine .  Caplan also reviews The Anti-Oligarchy C...

Over the past two weeks, we-- Mitra Sharafi (University of Wisconsin Law) & Ronit Stahl (Berkeley History) --have shared results from ou...

  This is the final installment in a five-part series on the Letter of Recommendation (LOR) system. In spring 2021, Ronit Stahl and Mitra Sh...