Legal History Blog

Via the  American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA) : a recording is now available of the recent webinar on "Indigen...

Franziska Niedrist has posted Crime and Criminal Justice: Habsburg's Supreme Court, Tyrol and Vorarlberg (1814-1844) : This paper exami...

The American Political History Conference convenes this week in Washington, D.C., and the program includes many panels and events that may...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] Making Connections: New Works in Legal History Series  Sponsored by the American Society for Lega...

Anthony Michael Kreis, Georgia State University College of Law , has posted Discovering the Historical Anglo-American Constitution :  The co...

[We have the following CFP .  DRE] Comparative Legal History: Transition and Transfers   Lund: Lund University, June 21-23, 2027.  Deadline:...

Joy Milligan, University of California, Berkeley Law School , has posted The Constitution of Racial Repair: A Reconstructed History , which ...

Nathan B. Oman, William & Mary Law School , has posted "All Other Religious Sects Shall Have Free Toleration": Recovering the ...

[Long-time readers of LHB know that each year I research and write a biographical essay for my legal history exam.  If you'd like to rea...

Sally Hadden, Western Michigan University, will speak on “ The First Massachusetts Constitution and How Town Actions Derailed It ,” online ...

Samuel L. Bray, University of Chicago Law School , and Aditya Bamzai, University of Virginia School of Law , have posted Prosecuting Contemp...

Property teachers take note: F. E. Guerra-Pujol, University of Central Florida and the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico , has ...

Ayla do Vale Alves ,  Adelaide University , will speak on Women's Rights in Latin American Family Law in the Helsinki Legal History Seri...

Ann Mumford, Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London , has published " Re-Enacting The Judicial Philosophy Of Oliver Wend...

The Law & Society Association has announced its 2026 awards , including the winner of the  James Willard Hurst Book Prize  (" award...

  Julian Davis Mortenson, University of Michigan Law School , has posted “Westminster Quibbles”: The Antinomy of Text and Purpose in Eightee...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE]  The Legal History and Rare Books Special Interest Section (LHRB) of the American Association of...

On Thursday, July 2, from 6 PM - 7 PM at the Chau Chak Wing Museum in Camperdown, NSW, Paula Jane Byrne speaks about her new book Law in th...

Alison LaCroix on using history to advise the University of Chicago 's graduating class ( Chicago Maroon ).  A notice of "Law and ...

Con Reynolds , Counsel to the Chair, U.S. Sentencing Commission, has posted The Original Role of Article III in Federal Imprisonment .  The ...

Michael E. Solimine, University of Cincinnati College of Law , and Michelle Brodersen , a 2025 graduate of the University of Cincinnati Coll...

 [We have the following Call for Applicants.  DRE] The American Society for Legal History will host its thirteenth annual Student Research C...

Daphne Penna, University of Groningen and KU Leuven , has published Byzantine Law: The Law of the Eastern Roman Empire , in the " Eleme...

The History of European Union Law: Constitutional Practice, 1950 to 1993 (Cambridge University Press), edited by Bill Davies, American Uni...

Farah Peterson, University of Chicago Law School , has posted The Limits of Text , which is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal : Let’s say ...

Texas A&M Law Review 13:2 (2026) is a symposium issue on constitutional interpretation with many contributions of interest to legal hi...

It is publication day for White Power: Policing American Slavery (University of North Carolina Press), by Gautham Rao.  The book is the ini...

The Spring 2026 issue of the Journal of American Constitutional History is now available here . Articles Constructing the Constitutional Le...

Katrina Jagodinsky, University of Nebraska-Lincoln , will be addressing the Department ofHistory and School of Law at the University of Oreg...

Brent Skorup, Cato Institute , has posted The Korematsu Era: The Restructuring of Government Power, 1942–1948 : This paper argues that the ...

[We've recently had our attention drawn to this important collection at the Biddle Law Library of the Penn Carey Law School.  DRE] In Oc...

William E. Forbath, University of Texas at Austin School of Law , and Joseph Fishkin, UCLA Law School , have posted Anti-Oligarchy, Anti-Aut...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE]  Registration now open for the Bentham House: Queering Private Law Conference  [sponsored by the]...