Legal History Blog

Doyle K. Hodges , the Dean of Academic Affairs at the Naval War College , has published The Rise of US Military Legalism A New Theory of Mil...

Edinburgh University Press has published  Conscripting Breadwinner Soldiers in the Late Ottoman Empire: Family, Law and War (Edinburgh Stud...

Rephael Stern, Boston University School of Law , has posted Inventing Israel's Legal Space , which is forthcoming in the University of P...

[ Via H-Law , we have word of the publication of a special issue ( 53:2 ) of  istorical Reflections/Réflexions  Historiques  devoted to Repa...

Samuel Moyn, Yale Law School , has posted A Letter to Hans Kelsen on the Use of Force : In the last days of 1966, John Fried wrote a letter ...

Mara Revkin, Duke University School of Law , and Gage Gramlick , a JD candidate at Duke, have posted The Civil War Origins of Fiscal Policin...

Law and History Review 43:2 (2025), a special issue, has now been published on-line.  Here is the TOC: Archives of Sexual Violence in Confl...

[We have the following CFP.  DRE] "Violence in the Medieval and Early Modern North."  Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern North Con...

[Here is the schedule of the Pauline Maier Early American History Seminar.  DRE] Sponsored and hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Societ...

My Georgetown Law colleague Kevin Arlyck has published The Nation at Sea: The Federal Courts and American Sovereignty, 1789–1825 (Cambrid...

New from Oxford University Press: Reframing Treaties in the Late Medieval and Early Modern West , edited by Isabella Lazzarini , Luciano Pi...

  Andrew Kent, Fordham University School of Law , has posted The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 : For the first time since World War II-and the f...

Stephen M. Bainbridge, UCLA School of Law , has posted The Law and Economics of An Act to Encourage Privateering Associations : New York Col...

[We have the following announcement from the Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy of the Wayne State University Law School .  DRE.] T...

Maggie Blackhawk, New York University School of Law , has posted The Crisis in Colonial Administration: American Indians and Japanese Intern...

Felice Batlan, Chicago-Kent College of Law , has posted The 1948 Displaced Persons Act and Home-Grown Antisemitism : This Article examines t...

American Journal of Legal History 64:1 (March 2024) is now published online . The Pennsylvania Council of Censors and the Debate on the Gua...

Diane Marie Amann, University of Georgia School of Law , has posted Inge Viermetz, Woman Acquitted at Nuremberg : Inge Viermetz ( wiki ) Con...

Slate's Amicus podcast (hosted by Dahlia Lithwick) is doing a series on originalism . The first episode in the series is here (" H...

It turns out taxes were more certain than death.  Michael Littlewood, University of Auckland Faculty of Law , and Micah Burch, The Universit...