Legal History Blog

Gregory Ablavsky, Stanford Law School , has posted Original Understandings of the U.S. Territories : Recently, judges and scholars alike hav...

Marco Basile, Boston College Law School , has published The Splintering of American Public Law in the University of Chicago Law Review : Co...

Charles J. Sheehan has published Only the Moon to Shed Light on What Occurred: Charles Fahy and Frontier Justice in New Mexico in the Jour...

[Our friends at Michigan Law have sent us the lineup in its Legal History Workshop in the upcoming semester.  DRE] February 5.  Session 3. ...

For a limited time, the University of California Press is providing ungated access to One Century After Thind , a special issue of Ethnic S...

John Wunder ( credit ) We noted the passing of John R. Wunder late last month and now have an obituary , courtesy of the University of Neb...

Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania , has posted Unlikely Freedom: Slavery, Race, and Law in Antebellum California : Slavery ...

The latest issue of the California Supreme Court Historical Society Review (Fall/Winter 2022) is out.  We borrow from a communication from...

The "We the People" series of the National Constitution Center has a new podcast: The Battle for the American West : For Native A...

 [Like us, you may not have been aware that some years back the newsletter of the California Supreme Court Historical Society was reestabli...

Scott L. Cummings, UCLA Law , has published An Equal Place: Lawyers in the Struggle for Los Angeles (Oxford University Press, 2020): An Equ...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] The CSCHS Research Travel Grant in California Legal History .  The California Supreme Court Histo...

[We have the following job announcement.  DRE] Assistant to the Executive Director for the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society The Nin...

Hannah Haksgaard, University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law , has posted The Homesteading Rights of Deserted Wives: A History , which...

Harold Ickes (center); Edward Taylor (left) LC [Longtime LHB readers will recall that for the exam in my legal history course I write an...

We received word the other day of another addition to the shelf of book-length case studies on environmental law (ours includes Duncan Maysi...

With the help of Michael J. Wishnie and his clinic students at Yale Law School, a powerhouse group of legal historians has submitted an am...

Western Legal History 30:1-2 (2019), is a symposium issue on woman suffrage in the American West, with an overview, “How the Woman’s Vote w...

Gregory Ablavsky, Stanford Law School , has posted Administrative Constitutionalism in the Northwest Territory , which is forthcoming in the...

[We have word from the California Supreme Court Historical Society of its program of Research Travel Grants in California Legal History.] ...