Legal History Blog

Perhaps like us you have overlooked recent online essays by the historians of the Federal Judicial Center .  The very latest is Jake Kobrick...

Brad Baranowski, SMU Dedman School of Law , has posted Remaking Rulemaking: Lessons from the History of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(b...

Aderson Francois, Georgetown University Law Center , and Helen Hershkoff, New York University School of Law , have posted Pennoyer , Due Pro...

Thomas A. Smith, University of San Diego School of Law , has posted a reconsideration of Eire Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, entitled, Overruled...

José Argueta Funes, UC Berkeley Law, has published The "Code American" and Law's Empire , a review of Kellen Funk’s Law’s Mac...

David Freeman Engstrom, David Marcus and Elliot Setzer have published Managerial Courts in the Yale Law Journal : In recent decades, Ame...

David Kim , of the Australian law firm Banki Haddock Fiora, has posted “A Turbid Admixture”: The Long Shadow of the Common Law Procedure Act...

James E. Pfander and Mary Zakowski , Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law , have published Non-Party Protective Relief in the Ear...

Robert Post, Yale Law School , has posted The Supreme Court’s Crisis of Authority: Law, Politics, and the Judiciary Act of 1925 : William Ho...

Alexander Zhang , the Legal History Fellow at the Yale Law School , has posted Fair Notice as a Sociopolitical Choice , which is forthcoming...

Thomas D. Russell, University of Denver, Sturm College of Law , as posted Claims on the Tracks : A Trip Down Market Street, 2016 ( Upchurch ...

Kunal M. Parker, University of Miami School of Law , has published The Turn to Process: American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought, 187...

Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl, William & Mary Law School , has posted Equity on Appeal : It is generally understood that the Federal Rules of Ci...

Alessandro Petryshyn, Lancaster University Law School , has posted Fusion of the Common Law and Equity: A Strictly Procedural Reform or a Su...

Michael E. Solimine, University of Cincinnati College of Law , and, posthumously, James L. Walker, Wright State University, have published ...

William S. Dodge, University of California, Davis School of Law, Maggie Gardner, Cornell Law School , and Christopher A. Whytock, University...

Via the New Books Network, an interview with Samantha Barbas (University at Buffalo School of Law) about The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst...

Michael Solimine, University of Cincinnati College of Law , has posted The Strange Career of the Three-Judge District Court: Federalism and ...

Josh Blackman, South Texas College of Law Houston , has posted Presidential Subpoenas during the Burr Trials : Aaron Burr ( LC ) Betwe...

Ryan C. Williams, Boston College Law School , has posted Personal Jurisdiction and the Declaration of Independence : ( NYPL ) The De...