Legal History Blog

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

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

Rosa Goluboff and G. Edward White reflect on the enduring legacy of the Declaration of Independence ( Virginia Law ).  William Novak refl...

ASLH President Mitra Sharafi discusses Fear of the False , "her new book about colonial South Asia's critical role in the developm...

[We have the following CFP for a Forum on International Legal History & Philosophy at the Chanakya National Law University in Patna, Ind...

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

Continuing with our notices of the awards, prizes, and fellowships announced at the recent meeting of the American Society for Legal History...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] The newly established Centre for Legal History of India (CLHI) at the Max Planck Institute for Le...

A symposium in Modern Asian Studies  is devoted to an article by Mitra Sharafi, Wisconsin Law,  who is the new President of the American So...

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...

Preet S. Aulakh,York University , has published Empire and the Peasant Proprietor: Inter-Colony Land Reform in the Victorian Era (Oxford Un...

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

At the recent meeting of the Law and Society Association , the winner of the annual Dissertation Prize was announced. The award went to Du ...

Routledge India has released The Trial That Shook Britain: How a Court Martial Hastened Acceptance of Indian Independence (2024), by Ashish...

 Christopher T. Fleming has published Equity and Trusts in Sanskrit Jurisprudence in the British Academy Monographs of Oxford University Pr...

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

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

Mytheli Sreenivas, Ohio State University , has published Population, Eugenics and Reproductive Rights: Legalising Abortion in India, 1966–71...

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