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Griffin Black has recently published Reconstruction State Constitutional Conventions and the Rebirth of American Schooling as a student no...

Cambridge University Press has published Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS , by Aziza Ahmed (Bosto...

 A Q&A with Jane Manners , who joined Fordham's law faculty this fall ( Fordham Law News ). The death of former Vice President Dick ...

Law and History Review 43:1 is now available online .  Here is the TOC: Articles Context Matters: Understanding Why Medieval Legislators Ch...

The Constitutional Accountability Center (CAC) has issued the following call for applications : CAC invites applications for its 2026-2027 ...

Katherine Sanders, University of Auckland Faculty of Law , has posted “The King in all his cabinets”: Crown and Empire in Te Heuheu Tukino v...

Christine Kexel Chabot, Marquette University Law School , has posted the The Interstitial Executive: A View from the Founding : The Supreme ...

New from Hart/Bloomsbury: Studies in the History of Tax Law , Volume 12, edited by Peter Harris and Dominic de Cogan, University of Cambrid...

New from Hart/Bloomsbury: Epidemics and the Law from Plague to the Present , edited by  Emily Gordon , Charles Mitchell and Ian Williams (...

[We have the following announcement from the search firm Isaacson, Miller .  DRE] The American Bar Foundation (ABF), a cornerstone and wells...

Adam B. Forsyth , a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Cambridge , has published England’s Erastus? Or, James Morice and the...

A notice of  Doris Morgan Rueda  ( Appalachian ).  A notice of the  2025 Conference on the Civil War, devoted to “New Directions in the Lega...

Maurits den Hollander, Tilburg University , has published Court, Credit, and Capital: Amsterdam's Insolvency Legislation in the Dutch Go...

Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash and Cass R. Sunstei n have published Radical Constitutional Change in the Virginia Law Review : At defining p...

Geoffrey Samuel , Professor Emeritus, Kent Law School , has published Principia Iuris: A Historical and Comparative Introduction to the Engl...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE.] We are writing on behalf of the Center for International and Comparative Law at the University o...

Marco Basile, Boston College Law School , has published The Splintering of American Public Law in the University of Chicago Law Review : Co...

Gerard N. Magliocca, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law , has published The Actual Art of Governing: Justice Robert H. Jack...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE.] Ashton Phelps Chair in Constitutional Law Tulane University Law School invites nominations and ...

[From Ryan Greenwood, Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections, we have word of a new digital exhibit at the University of Minnesota La...

The Heart of Suffolk: Witch Trials, "a new pop-up exhibition . . . exploring the stories of the women and men who faced execution after...

Ben Johnson, University of Florida Levin College of Law , has posted A History of Vacatu r: Vacatur, a seemingly routine appellate tool, has...

Renee Lettow Lerner, George Washington University Law School , has posted two of her entries in The Heritage Guide to the Constitution , edi...

 The Texas Law Review (Volume 103, issue 9) recently published an essay of interest: Kali Murray (Marquette University Law School), " ...

[We have the following announcemen t of the American Historical Association .  DRE.] The American Historical Association invites you to atte...

Antonia Smith and Geoff McLay , Victoria University of Wellington/Te Herenga Waka Faculty of Law , have posted Hiding in Plain Sight: The L...

[Via H-Law , we have the following job announcement .  But see this .  DRE] The Department of History in the College of Arts and Sciences a...

Maud Anne Bracke, University of Glasgow , has published Reproductive Rights in Modern France: Feminism, Contraception, and Abortion, 1950-19...

[We have the following announcement from Jeremy K. Kessler, Columbia Law School.  DRE] I'm pleased to announce the inaugural meeting of ...

Congratulations to  Alison LaCroix, University of Chicago Law School , upon the awarding to her  of the American Historical Association’s Li...

Gerard N. Magliocca, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law , has posted “ Without Domicile or Allegiance: Gypsies and Birthrig...

[We have the following announcement from the Historical Society of the New York Courts .  DRE.] Remembering Willowbrook: Ensuring Justice, ...

J. Mark Ramseyer, Harvard Law School , has posted When Economic Performance Turns on the Colonized Rather than the Colonist : Acemoglu, John...