Legal History Blog

"Professor Sarah Seo, Columbia Law School , discusses the Automotive Fourth Amendment for the Supreme Court Historical Society's V...

My law school classmate Jack M. Beermann, Boston University School of Law , has just published The Journey to Separate but Equal: Madame Dec...

Samantha Barbas, University at Buffalo School of Law , has published The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst: Free Speech Renegade   (University ...

As I noted recently on Twitter , the Michigan Law Review 's Book Review Issue is chock full of legal history. Items of interest include...

  Kirsten Sword (Indiana University Bloomington) has published Wives not Slaves: Patriarchy and Modernity in the Age of Revolutions with th...

[We have the following call for papers.  DRE] Third Legal Histories of Empire Conference Beyond the Pale: Legal Histories on the Edges of Em...

We’ve previously posted the line-up for Centre for English Legal History at the University of Cambridge.  Here it is again, with TEAMS links...

The Society of American Historians has awarded the Francis Parkman Prize to Christopher Tomlins (University of California, Berkeley) for I...

Manon van der Heijden, Marion Pluskota , and Sanne Muurling (all at Universiteit Leiden) have co-edited the volume, Women's Criminality...

Mike Widener ( YLS ) We know that “end of an era” is a cliche, but everything else seems inadequate.  Mike Widener is stepping down as Rar...

Vernon Valentine Palmer ,  the Thomas Pickles Professor of Law at Tulane University , has published The Lost Translators of 1808 and the Bir...

Over at JOTWELL Christopher Schmidt (Chicago-Kent College of Law/Illinois Tech) has posted an admiring review of Mary Ziegler 's Abort...

Just published by Cambridge University Press: Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law: Essays in Comparative Legal History from the Twelfth ...

[Here's the line up in the the Centre for English Legal History at the University of Cambridge for May and June.  DRE]

R. H. Helmholz ( credit ) We congratulate Richard H. Helmholz , the Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the Univer...

Our friends at the Canadian Legal History Blog have posted a call for applications for the R. Roy McMurtry Fellowship in Legal Histor...

On May 25, the University of Southern California Early Modern Studies Institute will host "an interdisciplinary conversation" on O...

Preet S. Aulakh (York University, Toronto) has published the following article: "Law, Identity and Imperial Logics of Exclusion: The C...

  Ulrike Krause (Osnabrück University, Germany) has published the following article: "Colonial roots of the 1951 Refugee Convention an...

Harwell Wells, Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law , has posted The Personification of the Partnership , which is forthcoming i...

RBG @ DC Cir. ( credit ) A Missing Chapter in the Story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg : A Tribute by the Historical Society of the District of Colu...

We are excited to welcome Laurie Wood (Florida State University)  as our guest blogger in May 2021.  Professor Wood is a historian of the e...

We're delighted to have had Samuel Fury Childs Daly (Duke University) join us as guest blogger in April 2021. Many thanks for his multi...

Michael Allan Wolf, University of Florida Levin College of Law, has posted Between Jacob(s) and Moses: Ed Logue, Urban Redevelopment Lawyer...

Shira Shmuely (Tel Aviv University) has published the following article: "Law and the Laboratory: The British Vivisection Inspectorate ...

Michael Risch, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law , and Mike Viney, Colorado State University , has posted The Way Lawyers Wo...

Just out from Talbot Publishing: The Black Book of Justice Holmes: Text Transcript and Commentary , edited by Michael H. Hoeflich, Universit...

  In this series, Samuel Fury Childs Daly looks at four legal documents (broadly construed) from Nigeria during its long period of military ...

 Robert J. Miller and Olivia Stitz, Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law have posted The International Law of Co...

Margaret M. Blair, Vanderbilt University Law School , has posted How Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward Clarified Corporate Law : Th...

The March 2021 issue of the Journal of World History features a special forum on South Asian labor migrations, edited by Neilesh Bose (Unive...

No pun intended, I'm not sure how we overlooked the publication of H iding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a Whi...

 [We have the following announcement.  DRE] WEBINAR: "Legal and Historical Narratives: A Talk with Lira Neto" – 03 May 2021, 10 AM...

[We have the following CFP.  DRE]  Decolonial comparative legal history: indigenous and global South law prior to colonialism 9-10 September...

We may be late to the party, but, wow, Social Networks and Archival Context is a great guide to archival collections.  H/t: HKM Writing in ...