Legal History Blog

[Via H-Law , we have the following CFP.  DRE] Call for Proposals: The Seventh Biennial Conference of the International Society for Chinese L...

Jamie Grischkan, Fordham Law , has published The Accidental Regulator in Chief: The Federal Reserve’s Path to Power in the FIU Law Review :...

[We have the following announcement of a new series, Oxford Bibliographies in Legal History , edited by Gautham Rao , the former Editor-in-C...

Cynthia Nicoletti joins Duke Law faculty ( Duke Law ).     The National Archives of Asunción has opened the exhibit "Four Times of t...

William Howard Taft ( LC ) Andrea Scoseria Katz on "Taft at the Beach: What the Supreme Court Misses About a Key Unitary Executive Pre...

Victoria Nourse, Georgetown Law , has published American Public Law Revolution in the UCLA Law Review : The Supreme Court has birthed a pub...

Stephen Skinner, University of Exeter , has published Subversion and the Special Tribunal for the Defence of the State in Fascist Italy, 192...

We have the following ASLH-related announcement: We invite historians of all time periods and regions to register their interest in attendin...

Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College Law School , has posted The Blessings of Liberty and Bills of Rights , which will appear in National Const...

Comparative Legal History 14:1 (2026) has been published.  Editorial David Schorr & Agustín Parise Comparative law today – tomes, theme...

[We have word of the following open-access publication in the Global Perspectives on Legal History series of the Max Planck Institute for Le...

Rebecca Probert, University of Exeter, has published two companion volumes with Hart/Bloomsbury.  The first is Double Trouble: Bigamy and th...

K.D. Ewing and Andrew Moretta have published Labour Law, the Cold War, and the Right to Strike: A Legal and Political History of Order 130...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] Taxation, Racial Capitalism, and the International Rule of Law: From Colonial Slavery to Global G...

The three-volume Cambridge History of the American Revolution , edited Marjoleine Kars, Michael A. McDonnell , Andrew M. Schocket , was publ...

ASLH President Mitra Sharafi 's alternative to assigning undergraduate research papers in an age of AI ( South Asian Legal History Resou...

Ben Pontz , a graduate of the Harvard Law School and a Law Clerk, United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, has po...

Mitchell A. Del Bianco , a recent graduate of the University of Virginia 's J.D. and M.A. program in legal history, has posted A Bureauc...

Robert J. Steinfeld, University at Buffalo Law School , has posted The Forgotten History of the Electors Clause: The States Abandon Legislat...

The 23rd Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference , to be held October 14–16, 2026, in London, England, has at least two session of ...

Gregory Ablavsky, Stanford Law School , has posted State Criminal Jurisdiction in Indian Country: A History , which is forthcoming in the Vi...

Carlton F. W. Larson, University of California, Davis , has published One Nation Under Law: The Meaning of the Declaration of Independence ...

[Because the deadline of July 1 is fast approaching, we are moving up the following Call for Submissions. DRE] The California Supreme Court...

[Via H-Law , we have the following CFP.  DRE] Inclusion, Exclusion, and Resistance in the Renaissance World, ca. 1300–1700 The history of ri...

 [We have the following announcement .  DRE] On June 24, 2026 (at 12pm Eastern), join us for an international workshop featuring contributor...

Benjamin Keener, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School , and Keith E. Whittington ,  Yale Law School , have posted Demystifying Birthr...

Robert G. Parkinson, Binghamton University , has published Tyrants and Rogues: Understanding the Declaration of Independence (Norton): We th...

Sari Altschuler, Northeastern University, has published Before Disability: A History of American Citizenship (University of Pennsylvania P...

Daniel Farbman (Boston College Law) has posted " Towns or Counties ." The article appears in Volume 59, no. 3, of the Indiana Law ...