Legal History Blog

Heart Mountain High School Campus Scene, 1943 ( LC ) We have the following announcement .  DRE.] Federalism in Action: Teaching Japanese Ame...

When I started working on my second book, Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia , I created a cour...

Berkeley Law 's notice of its new legal historian, Aaron Hall ( UC Berkeley Law ).   Daniel F. Gosling , Principal Legal Records Specia...

ASLH President Mitra Sharafi 's alternative to assigning undergraduate research papers in an age of AI ( South Asian Legal History Resou...

Elizabeth Brand Monroe  (1947-2026), a legal and public historian who received the Supreme Court Historical Society's Gossett Award fo...

Robert M. Jarvis has published The Neglected Amendments of the U.S. Constitution: Text, History, and Interpretation (Carolina Academic Pre...

As an heir, through John Langbein when he taught at the University of Chicago, to the "Development of Legal Institutions" traditio...

LHB mourns the passing of Ken Kersch , a professor of political science at Boston College and an excellent historian of American conservati...

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

A recording of that Brennan Center event, The Fight Against Originalism Continues , with Jonathan Gienapp, Gautham Rao , and Rachel Shelden ...

History figures in two recent posts on the teaching of Constitutional law in American law schools.  The first is Teaching Constitutional Law...

We note a report of Michael Vorenberg 's very interesting thoughts on an issue many of us are coming to grips, the use of Artificial Int...

UC Law SF , so-renamed after dropping the name of its founder, Serranus Hastings, who unleashed a massacre of California's Native Ameri...

 A "Curator Talk" at the FDR Presidential Library and Museum, Japanese American Incarceration Through the Lens of Ansel Adams , is...

Via the Florida State University History Department: information about the Dr. Laurie M. Wood Fund for the Undergraduate Study of History . ...

Balkinization has been running a symposium on Christian G. Fritz 's Monitoring American Federalism: The History of State Legislative Res...

This post, by Karen Tani (University of Pennsylvania), is the fifth in a series of posts in which legal historians reflect on Outside In: Th...

No surprise to us: Legal historians teach law students well.  Kellen Funk wins the Reese Prize for Excellence in Teaching at Columbia Law ...

The amicus brief of the Organization of American Historians in Brackeen v. Haaland , on “whether the placement preferences of the 1978 Indi...