Legal History Blog

It is publication day for White Power: Policing American Slavery (University of North Carolina Press), by Gautham Rao.  The book is the ini...

David Petruccelli, Dartmouth College , has published A Scourge of Humanity: The Origins of Interpol and the End of Empire in Central and Eas...

Grace Watkins , a recent graduate from the Yale Law School and a DPhil student in History at Oxford University has published her note, Piety...

My fellow LHBlogger Karen Tani discusses her recent foreword to the Harvard Law Review 's issue on the Supreme Court on David Schleiche...

Bernie Meyler, Stanford Law School , on presidential pardons, with Pamela Karlan and Richard Thompson Ford on the Stanford Legal podcast ....

 The Balkinization symposium on Alison LaCroix 's The Interbellum Constitution continued this week. Since our last Weekend Roundup, the...

Over at Balkinization , an interesting symposium on David Pozen 's The Constitution of the War on Drugs (Oxford University Press, 2024)...

Jonathon Booth,  University of Colorado Law School , has posted P olicing after Slavery: Race, Crime, and Resistance in Atlanta , which is f...

Earlier this week we posted the CFP for the Student Writing Competition on California Legal History , sponsored by the  California Supreme ...

 [We have the following announcemen t.  DRE.] The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on “ Just Policing: Transnational Perspectives ...

Emily Brooks , “a full-time curriculum writer at the New York Public Library 's Center for Educators and Schools [who] received her PhD ...

Ira P. Robbins, American University Washington College of Law , has posted Citizen's Arrest and Race , which appears in the Ohio State J...

Daniel B. Yeager, California Western School of Law , has posted A History of Fruit of the Poisonous Tree (1916-1942) : Learned Hand ( LC ) T...

 "'Voting Rights: Identifying the Deep Roots of #BLM,' a lecture by Department of History Associate Professor Jennifer Hildebr...

Here is the TOC for American Journal of Legal History 62:2 (June 2022): British Policy towards the Incorporation of the Baltic States into...

The Yale Law Journal has published " Policing the Polity ," by Eisha Jain ( University of North Carolina School of Law) . Here...

The third, revised, and expanded edition of The Bill of Rights in Modern America , edited by David J. Bodenhamer and James W. Ely, Jr., has ...

Tiffany Yang, Georgetown University Law Center , has posted “Send Freedom House!”: A Study in Police Abolition in volume 96 of the Washingt...

The University of North Carolina Press has published Cruising for Conspirators: How a New Orleans DA Prosecuted the Kennedy Assassination as...

Philip O'Sullivan , the holder of a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the University of Chicago, now enrolled in JD and PhD programs...