Legal History Blog

Jane Ohlmeyer, Trinity College, Dublin, Richard J. Ross, University of Illinois , and Philip Stern, Duke University, have posted Anglicizat...

Samuel L. Bray, University of Chicago Law School , and Christian R. Burset, University of Pennsylvania Law School , have posted Why General ...

 I am delighted to be back as a Legal History (guest) Blogger. My second scholarly monograph, Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the La...

ASLH President (and former Legal History Blog co-moderator)  Mitra Sharafi discusses her new book, Fear of the False: Forensic Science and...

The Journal of Legal History 45:2 (2024) has been published open access online.  With a hat-tip to ESCLHblog , here is the TOC.  DRE] The C...

Sohaira Siddiqui, Georgetown University , has published  Islamic Law on Trial: Contesting Colonial Power in British India (University of Ca...

Paul J. du Plessis, University of Edinburgh , has published Henry Maine’s Ancient Law as an Expression of Victorian Humanism (University of...

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

Sascha Auerbach, University of Nottingham , has published T he Overseer State: Slavery, Indenture and Governance in the British Empire, 1812...

Irit Ballas and Arik Moran have published General Will or Public Order? The Debate on Criminal Justice Policy in Early Colonial Himalaya, ...

Over at Balkinization , John Q. Barrett lets us, too, read Charles Reich's mail as Reich decides between Paul, Weiss and Arnold Porter ...

Now available online from Law and History Review : Constitutional Panic in British India: How the Ilbert Bill Controversy of 1883 Revealed t...

The Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie have published, open access, Legal Transfer and Legal Geography in the Britis...

Alastair McClure, The University of Hong Kong, has published Trials of Sovereignty: Mercy, Violence, and the Making of Criminal Law in Bri...

Continuing our round-up of the prizes and award announced at the recent meeting of the American Society for Legal History , we turn now to t...

 [We have the following CFP.  DRE.] Oaths and Oath-Taking in Historical Perspective: Britain, Ireland, and the British Empire, 1700 to the P...

Continuing our round-up of the awards and prizes announced at the 2024 meeting of the American Society for Legal History , we turn now to th...

[We recently noticed the project on Slavery, Law and Power in the British Empire and Early America at the University of Maryland, created w...

[We have the following announcement .  DRE.] Maynooth University announces a History Research Seminar on Thursday, October 17, 2024, from 1...

The recording of that interview of Robert Post , on his Holmes Devise volume, The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation , by William M...