Legal History Blog

[We have the following announcement .  DRE] The Fall 2025 James McCormick Mitchell Lecture at the University at Buffalo School of Law  Frida...

William Michael Treanor and Amy Uelmen, Georgetown University Law Center , have posted Religious Freedom, Jesuit Mission, and DEI , which i...

Rachel Rothschild, University of Michigan Law School , has been chosen to receive the 2025–2026 Pace Haub Environmental Law Distinguished Ju...

[ Penn Carey Law has posted the following announcement .  DRE]  Beginning in the 2025-2026 academic year, the University of Pennsylvania Ca...

Northwestern Law has a post on the grants Ajay K. Mehrotra received in support of his book project, “American Outlier: Economic Inequalit...

New from Routledge: Legal History in the Curriculum: Comparative Perspectives, Critical Approaches and Future Directions , edited By Carolin...

There's quite a bit of legal history in the current issue ( 40:2 ) of the Touro Law Review .   Roger Newman reviews of Guido Calabresi...

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] The Journal of Legal Education is the official scholarly journal of the [Association of American...

David S. Tanenhaus ( UNLV ) Heartfelt congratulations to David S. Tanenhaus on his receipt of the American Society for Legal History 's...

Yesterday, Bloomberg Law published the reporters Lydia Wheeler and Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson ’s story, Justices’ History Focus Tests...

Christopher L. Tomlins, Berkeley Law , has written, as a digital "flipbook," Legal History/History of Law at Berkeley, 1870-2024 ...

[We have the following CFP .  DRE.] Learning about the law: Historical perspectives on public legal education for laypersons and underprivil...

Over at Balkinization, a terrific slate of contributors has been reflecting on Alison LaCroix 's The Interbellum Constitution . Posts ar...

Saul Cornell ’s contribution to the Slate series, “How Originalism Ate the Law,” is Why the Right Dominates When It Comes to Legal “History....

Could be worse: In Martinez and Tobia's recent survey, Legal History is in the middle of the pack for "should be central to the la...

The (Fall/Winter 2023) issue of the California Supreme Court Historical Society Review is now available here .  And here is the TOC: Serran...

The Birnbaum Women's Leadership Center at New York University invites applications for Visiting Fellows-in-Residence for the 2024-25 ac...

The Legacy of Stanley S. Surrey , a special issue of Law and Contemporary Problem s, has been published.   Its editors are Ajay K. Mehrotra ...

“At UC Law SF this year, [UCLA History Professor Benjamin Madley ] he will embark on a new research project, with Indigenous Law Center Fac...