Legal History Blog

Evelyn Atkinson , a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago , has posted Telegraph Torts: The Lost Lineage of the Public Service Co...

Thomas Mohr, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin , has posted The Foundation of the Irish State on 6 December 1922 : This ar...

The American Journal of Legal History 62: 3 (September 2022) is now entirely available online : Class, Conservation, and the Police Power i...

Daniel Judt , a PhD candidate at Yale University , has published The Tragic Pragmatism of the Wagner Act in the American Journal of Legal H...

[We have the following announcement .  DRE.] [On Thursday, October 6, 2022, from 17:30-19:30, the Centre for Legal History at the University...

Now online from the American Journal of Legal History and Oxford Academic: A Well-Outfitted Militia: German–American Translations of the Se...

I missed until quite recently the publication in the Journal of National Security Law and Policy of Roosevelt’s “Limited” National Emergenc...

[We recently learned of the Bibliography of the History of International Law , edited by Randall Lesaffer of the Tilburg Law School .  DRE]...

Christopher Tomlins , Berkeley Law , has published the review essay The State Before The State: A Critique of New Democracy: The Creation of...

Briana Rosenbaum, University of Tennessee College of Law, has posted Deflect, Delay, Deny: A Case Study of Segregation by Law School Facult...

Today is the publication date for Laura Kalman ’s FDR's Gambit: The Court Packing Fight and the Rise of Legal Liberalism (Oxford Univer...

 The 2022-23 lineup for the Columbia Law School Legal History Workshop is now available : FALL 2022 September 21st from 4:20pm - 6:00pm  ...

Anat Rosenberg ’s The Rise of Mass Advertising: Law, Enchantment, and the Cultural Boundaries of British Modernity has been published by Ox...

[We have the following announcement of an "immediate job opening":  Executive Director of the Michigan Supreme Court Historical So...

Columbia University has announced a new Center for Political Economy . The faculty co-directors include scholars with interests in law, pol...

Hayward H. Smith has published Revisiting the History of the Independent State Legislature Doctrine in the St. Mary's Law Journal 53 ...

Jeffrey D. Dunn has published The Legacy of Johnson v. Darr : The 1925 Decision of the All-Woman Texas Supreme Court in the St. Mary's...

Sophia Z. Lee, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School , has posted Racial Justice and Administrative Procedure , which is forthcoming i...

On behalf of my law & history colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania , I'm pleased to announce the lineup for our 2022-23 Lega...

In our last "weekend roundup" we posted a link to the line-up for the Stanford Center for Law and History 's 2022-23 workshop ...

The Honors Committee of the American Society for Legal History solicits nominations of senior scholars for consideration for election a...

[We have the following announcement from Tilburg University , via IAMEXPAT.   DRE.) The Department of Public Law and Governance (PLG) is loo...

The Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory is hosting a conference on Eugen Ehrlich .  100 years after his death, Eugen Eh...

The schedule for the Stanford Center for Law and History 2022-2023 Workshop is here . "As [first-year law students at the University o...