Legal History Blog

Via H-Net: a University of Chicago job posting for an " Instructional Professor in Law, Letters, and Society ."    Daniel Kuehn ...

Charlotte Christensen-Nugues, Lund University, has published, open-access,  Consent and Coercion: Forced Marriages in Supplications to the ...

Naomi Cahn, University of Virginia School of Law, Maxine Eichner, University of North Carolina School of Law, and Mary E. Ziegler, Universi...

Jesse James , Grinnell College , has published Laws of All the Greeks: International Law as Social Reality in Ancient Greece (Oxford Univer...

Victor Li has published Supreme Pressure:  The Rejection of John J. Parker and the Birth of the Modern Supreme Court Confirmation Process  ...

We have word that the Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium will reconvene on March 7, 2026, from 10 AM to 3 PM on the Notre Dame La...

Christian G. Fritz , emeritus at the University of New Mexico School of Law, has published Sounding the Alarm: The Role of States in Monito...

Michael D. Ramsey, University of San Diego School of Law , has posted Birthright Citizenship Re-Examined : In 2020, I argued in Originalis...

Lorren Eldridge, Emily Ireland, and Caroline Derry have published Celebrating Women in Legal History: Making and Shaping a Discipline  (Hart...

Dane Thomas , a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, has published, open access,  Legitimacy and the Problem of the...

[We have the following CFP.  DRE] The Faculty of Law, Multimedia University, Malaysia is organizing the Sixth Asian Legal History Conference...

Aziz Rana, Boston College , will discuss his book, The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them , as th...

Elizabeth Brand Monroe  (1947-2026), a legal and public historian who received the Supreme Court Historical Society's Gossett Award fo...

Paul M. Sherman and Daniel Nelson of the Institute for Justice have posted The (Weak) Historical Case for Licensing Speech : Increasingly...

Michael C. Blumm, Lewis & Clark Law School, has posted The Rise and Fall of Environmental Law : This article is an impressionistic, non...

Jonathan Gienapp, Stanford University , has posted two essays in which he responds to critics.  The first is The Constitution and Historical...

The Center for the Study of Law & Society at the University of California, Berkeley, has posted the Spring 2026 lineup for its speaker ...

This article is not legal history, but may be of interest to readers of the blog -- many of whom have likely made use of the Library of Cong...

Peter J. Galie , Professor Emeritus, Canisius University , has published The 1821 Constitutional Convention and the Constitutionalizing of R...

V ia our friends at Northwestern Law , we have the lineup for their Spring 2026  legal history colloquium : February 4 – Alison LaCroix (Chi...

There is much of interest to legal historians in the latest issue of the  Journal of American History  (112:3): Presidential Address: Histo...

Steven A. Dean, Boston University School of Law , has posted  Racial Capitalism and International Tax Law: The Story of Global Jim Crow  (Ox...

Just out from University of London Press: Law and Justice in the 1950s: Case Studies From a Neglected Decade , edited by Fiona Cownie and R...

Nathan Dorn , the Curator of Rare Books at the Law Library of Congress, on  Hippolytus de Marsiliis: The First Criminal Law Professor and H...

Randy Beck, University of Georgia School of Law , has posted The False Claims Act and the English Eradication of Qui Tam Legislation : Congr...

Paul Mitchell, University College London , has published Gaskell and the Law (Hart/Bloomsbury): Elizabeth Gaskell is best known today as a ...

[We have the following CFP for The Four Nations Law and the Humanities Forums .  DRE] We are excited to announce the calls for papers for Fo...

This year's Harmsworth Conference of the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford is The Meanings of Independence: Th...

[We have the following CFP.  DRE.] On behalf of the organizers, the Polish Academy of Sciences – Scientific Centre in Vienna, the Faculty of...

Rohit De, Yale University , and Ornit Shani, University of Haifa , have published Assembling India's Constitution: A New Democratic Hist...

Maureen E. Brady, Harvard Law School , has posted Property v. Guns: The Level-of-Generality Problem in Wolford : Wolford v. Lopez presents ...

Lev Menand, Columbia Law School , has posted The Unitary Executive and the Federal Reserve : The Supreme Court may soon embrace an interpret...

[As a reminder, we are moving up the following Call for Submissions.  DRE] The California Supreme Court Historical Society (CSCHS) encourag...

From the  Washington University Law Review Online : Michael Bannerjee (UC Berkeley) on  " Land-Grant Universities ."    The  Mayn...