Legal History Blog

Nathaniel Donahue,  Samuel I. Golieb Fellow at the New York University School of Law , has posted a terrific paper, Officers at Common Law ,...

Alison K. Smith, University of Toronto , has published “To Each Their Grievance Is Bitter and Unbearable”: Petitions, Autocracy, and the Rul...

Jack M. Balkin (Yale Law School) and Sanford Levinson (University of Texas Law School) have posted " Casebooks, Canons, and Constituti...

Over at JOTWELL , Bethany Berger  (Iowa College of Law) has posted an admiring review of Alexandra Fay' s "Courts of Indian Offens...

Angela E. Addae, University of Oregon School of Law , has published Booze, Bars, and Bias: Anti-Blackness in Liquor Licensing Enforcement i...

 [We have the following announcement .  DRE]  On September 11, 2025, at 5 p.m., join the Law Library of Congress and the Supreme Court His...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] ASLH/Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium September 27, 2025  | 10 AM - 3 PM (CST) Notre ...

Andrea Scoseria Katz, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law , Noah A. Rosenblum, New York University School of Law , and Jane Man...

Charles J. Sheehan has published Only the Moon to Shed Light on What Occurred: Charles Fahy and Frontier Justice in New Mexico in the Jour...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE]  This year, the Boston College Law School Legal History Roundtable begins its 24th successful yea...

Brian JM Quinn, Boston College Law School , has posted Economic Lives of Women: Shareholding by Women in the Middlesex Canal Corporation, 17...

From the Chronicle of Higher Education : Adam Sitze (Amherst College) on " The Strange History of University Autonomy — and Why We Need...

Keith E. Whittington, Yale Law School , has posted By Birth Alone: The Original Meaning of Birthright Citizenship and Subject to the Jurisdi...

MJ Palau-McDonald, University of Hawai’i at Manoa--William S. Richardson School of Law , has posted Farrington v. Tokushige : Language &...

Fara Dabhoiwala, Princeton University , has published What Is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea (Harvard University Press): Ever...

The Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley, has announced the lineup for its Fall 2025 speaker s...

[We have the following CFP .  DRE] Call for Proposals: American Political History Conference , June 4-6, 2026, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Cente...

[We have the following announcement from the  Bonnie and Richard Reiss Graduate Institute for Constitutional History at the New York Histori...

Wanling Su, Indiana University Bloomington , and Rahul Goravara, Georgetown University Law Center , have posted What is a Jury? which is fo...

Curtis Bradley, University of Chicago Law School , has posted Extradition in the Early Republic: International Law and Constitutional Author...

Wynne Muscatine Graham , Lecturer in Law, UCLA , has published The Forgotten History of Prison Law: Judicial Oversight of Detention Faciliti...

The Summer 2025 issue of the Journal of Supreme Court History is now available online .    Gerard N. Magliocca , Right in Theory, Wrong in...

On the Amicus podcast: Who Gets Left Out of Originalism ? with Mark Joseph Stern, Maggie Blackhawk , and Greg Ablavksy .  A machine-generate...

Karolina Stenlund and Ville Erkkilä, University of Helsinki , have published the introduction to a special issue of in Law and Critique o...

John Vlahoplus and Michael L. Rosin have published Birthright Citizenship of Child Born to Enemy Alien Visitors in the Washington Universit...

Chris Monaghan , a Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of Worcester , has published the edited collection, Leading Works in the Hist...

Louis D. Brandeis ( NYPL ) [We have the following announcement .  DRE]  “The Jewish Problem, Then and Now: Rethinking Louis Brandeis’s Liber...

Nicholas Handler, Texas A&M University School of Law , has posted The Administrative Law of McCarthyism , which is forthcoming in the St...

Volume 42:4 (November 2024) of Law and History Revie w, delayed by a malware attack on Cambridge University Press last summer, is now comple...

Arthur Krock ( LC ) Barry Cushman, Notre Dame Law School , has posted The Erie Scoop , which is forthcoming in the Green Bag 2d .: When th...

Maud Anne Bracke has published Reproductive Rights in Modern France: Feminism, Contraception, and Abortion, 1950–1980 (Oxford University Pr...

Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College Law School , has posted Hater of Kings: Catharine Macaulay’s Constitutional Regicide and the Declaration o...

Jan C. Jansen , University of Tübingen , has published Alien Acts in the Age of Emancipation: Mobility Control and Executive Power in the Br...

  Andrew Kent, Fordham University School of Law , has posted The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 : For the first time since World War II-and the f...