Legal History Blog

William Howard Taft ( LC ) Andrea Scoseria Katz on "Taft at the Beach: What the Supreme Court Misses About a Key Unitary Executive Pre...

Katherine Sanders, University of Auckland Faculty of Law , has posted “The King in all his cabinets”: Crown and Empire in Te Heuheu Tukino v...

Antonia Smith and Geoff McLay , Victoria University of Wellington/Te Herenga Waka Faculty of Law , have posted Hiding in Plain Sight: The L...

"From Red Lights to Legal Rights": a notice of a book on the recent history of sex work in New Zealand by   Cheryl Ware ( Univers...

John Mark Keyes, University of Ottawa, has posted Evolution of Legislative Drafting Style in English : This paper reviews the evolution of ...

Ajay K. Mehrotra reviews Dylan C. Penningroth 's Before the Movement in the Los Angeles Review of Books . A notice of the Legal Histor...

Katherine Sanders, University of Auckland Faculty of Law , has posted Away from the Familiar: Judges in Public Debate and as Commissioners ,...

Ash Stanley-Ryan has posted Ka mua, ka Muri : He Whakaputanga , Concealed Indigenous Histories, and the Making of International Law , which...

Penn Law Dean Sophia Lee discusses "her work as a legal scholar and historian of administrative law" ( Regulatory Review ).  And...

New from Hart Publishing: Studies in the History of Tax Law , Volume 11, edited by Peter Harris and Dominic de Cogan : This book is a conti...

We have word of the publication of Subjects and Aliens: Histories of Nationality, Law and Belonging in Australia and New Zealand , edited by...

[The website for the 42nd Annual Conference of the ANZLHS is now online.  Here's the CFP.  DRE] The Australian and New Zealand Law and H...

Michael Littlewood, University of Auckland Faculty of Law , has posted three papers on nineteenth-century New Zealand.  The first is a short...

Saul Cornell, Fordham Law , has a substantial post, Originalism's Historical Problems: The Supreme Court's Embrace of a Controversia...

Geoff McLay, Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka , has posted The Removal of Justice Edwards and the Struggle between the ...

Alexander Gillespie and Claire Breen, University of Waikato , have published People, Power, and Law: A New Zealand Histor y with Hart Publi...

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

Courtoom Scene, Sydney, 1817 ( wiki ) The program for the 39th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society ...

 [We have the following announcement.  DRE] 39th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society Join us for an ...

Claudia Geiringer, Victoria University of Wellington School of Law , has posted When Constitutional Theories Migrate: A Case Study , which i...