Legal History Blog

[We have the following announcement .  H/t: JQB.  DRE] Established in 2025 by his family, the William E. Leuchtenburg Fund at the University...

Wojciech Engelking, University of Warsaw, has published How Kantian is Kelsen’s Early Theory of International Law? in Law and History Revie...

Stephanie H. McMahon, Indiana University Maurer School of Law , will deliver America’s Love/HateRelationship with Tax Protests , the 2025 Ha...

Like us, you might have heard something about limited access to the collections at the National Archives, College Park .  Here is the lates...

Jonathan Klaaren, University of the Witwatersrand , has posted Law under Apartheid , which is forthcoming in the unfortunately timely Oxford...

Seth Barrett Tillman, National University of Ireland Faculty of Law, has posted A Phenomenon in Search of a Theory/Recent Citations to Mich...

[We're moving this up, because the article is now out in the British Journal of American Legal Studies . DRE] John D. Bessler, Univers...

Via H-Net, we have the following CFP : Invisible Actors in the Making of International Law, 1750-2000 (Sciences Po Paris, 27–28 November 202...

New from Princeton University Press:   Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America   (2025), by  Peter Conti-Bro...

We were surprised, moved, but also pleased to see the posthumous publication of R. B. Bernstein’s Alexander Hamilton: A Very Short Introduct...

Salutations to the participants in the J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History of the American Society for Legal History , which...

The second of today’s HAT posts is Joanna L. Grossman, SMU-Dedman School of Law , and Lawrence M. Friedman, Stanford Law School , The Quic...

It’s “history and tradition” (HAT) Friday.  Our first post is Joseph Blocher, Duke University School of Law , and Reva Siegel, Yale Law Scho...

Mark Jones , professor emeritus of criminal justice and criminology, East Carolina University, has published A History of the United States ...

[We have word from the Modern Criminal Law Review of From Treason to Trump: Felony’s Medieval Origins and Modern Resilience , a forum on El...

Richard Primus, University of Michigan Law School , has published The Oldest Constitutional Question: Enumeration and Federal Power (Harvar...

Congratulations to LHB Founder Mary Dudziak on the publication of a new edition of her landmark book, Cold War Civil Rights (Princeton Uni...

[We are moving up this previously posted call for submissions for this student writing prize because the due date is now July 15 .  DRE] The...

Notre Dame Law ’s notice of its two prize winners at the recent annual meeting of the Supreme Court Historical Society, Barry Cushman and ...

Dmitry Poldnikov, MGIMO University, Moscow , has posted Dialogical Narrative in Comparative Legal History : As a well-established academic d...

Max Kuhelj Bugaric , a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government and a student in the Law School at Harvard University , has posted Ra...

Robert L. Tsai, Boston University School of Law , and Sanford Levinson, University of Texas Law School , have posted Under What Circumstance...

Kendra D. Boyd, Rutgers University, has published Freedom Enterprise: Black Entrepreneurship and Racial Capitalism in Detroit (University o...

Lorianne Updike Toler , Northern Illinois University College of Law , visiting at YLS, has posted Freemanship : American citizenship, schola...

The National Constitution Center’s Town Hall on Executive Authority: Presidential Power From America’s Founding to Today , with Gillian Metz...

Fred Halbhuber , a recent graduate of the Yale Law School , has posted The State-Law Origins of the Appellate Review Model : Modern administ...

The annual book review issue of the Michigan Law Review  includes several essays on works of legal history, in addition to Reva Siegel ’s h...

[We have the following announcement from the Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit and the Supreme Court Historical Society...

Jedidiah J. Kroncke, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law , has posted Model, System, or Node? Understanding Legal Education Reform in Twe...

 [We have the following announcement.  DRE] International Symposium (12-13 Juni 2025): An Intellectual History of Legal History On 12–13 Ju...

Pedro Jimenez Cantisano has published, in Portuguese,  “Um perpétuo estado de sítio”: atos de império e despotismo administrativo na Primei...

 [We have the following announcement .  DRE] The American Historical Association invites you to attend a Congressional Briefing offering hi...

Jed H. Shugerman, Boston University School of Law , has posted An Originalist Case for Birthright Citizenship of Unlawful Immigrants' Ch...

Maksymilian Del Mar, Queen Mary University of London, has published Neil MacCormick: A Life in Politics, Philosophy, and Law (Cambridge Uni...