Showing posts with label constitutionalism; American legal history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label constitutionalism; American legal history. Show all posts
Monday, April 10, 2023

Kalman Comments on Tushnet's "Hughes Court"

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[On Tuesday, April 4, Georgetown Law devoted a session of its faculty workshop to honoring the publication of The Hughes Court: From Progres...
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Schwartz and Mikhail on Exaggerating Madison

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David S. Schwartz, University of Wisconsin Law School , and John Mikhail, Georgetown University Law Center, have posted The Other Madison P...
Monday, February 3, 2020

Fordham Constitutional History Workshop: Spring 2020

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Via co-organizers Saul Cornell and Jed Shugerman , we have the lineup for the Spring 2020 Fordham Constitutional History Workshop . Jan....
Sunday, December 22, 2019

Law of Nations and the Early American Constitution: An ICH Seminar

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[We're moving this up, as the deadline for applications ( December 30, 2019 ) will soon be upon us.;  DRE] The Law of Nations and the ...
Friday, November 29, 2019

CFP: Constitutionalism & the American Presidency

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The Missouri Valley History Conference has issued a CFP for its next annual meeting, on the theme “Constitutionalism & the American Pre...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Nelson on the Common Law in Colonial America

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In 2018, Oxford University Press published The Common Law in Colonial America, Vol.IV: Law and the Constitution on the Eve of Independence,...
Saturday, April 20, 2019

A Better Book: Trust Oneself, then Know Oneself

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A week ago I had the pleasure of being on a panel focused on my recent book, Almost Citizens . Sophia Lee asked me a question that zeroe...
Thursday, December 13, 2018

Barnett on Lochner

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Randy E. Barnett, Georgetown University Law Center , has posted After All These Years, Lochner Was Not Crazy — It Was Good, which appears i...
Monday, December 3, 2018

Orren, Compton, and friends on the US Constitution

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Karen Orren (UCLA) and John W. Compton (Chapman University) have co-edited The Cambridge Companion to the United States Companion with Ca...
Sunday, August 19, 2018

On Finding a Dissertation Topic … or at Least, My Experience Finding a Topic

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All graduate students do some hand-wringing and soul-searching when it comes time to nail down a dissertation topic. (And, if not, they ...
Thursday, May 3, 2018

Collins and Woolhandler on Judical Federalism under Marshall and Taney

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Michael G. Collins and Ann Woolhandler, University of Virginia School of Law have posted Judicial Federalism under Marshall and Taney , whi...
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Grewal & Purdy, "The Original Theory of Originalism"

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David Singh Grewal (Yale Law School) and Jedediah S. Purdy (Duke University School of Law) have posted " The Original Theory of Origi...
Thursday, November 16, 2017

What Kind of Civil Cases Black Southerners Litigated Against Whites in Southern Courts, 1865-1899

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As black southerners litigated civil cases against whites in southern appellate courts from the end of the Civil War to the mid-20th centur...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

The American Historian magazine's November issue on Law and the Courts

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Cover Design: Ashlee W. Smith;  Photo: Emmanuel Huybrechts           The Organization of American Historians' magazine, The Ameri...
Friday, November 10, 2017

How Black Litigants Shaped Their Civil Cases Against Whites

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Today I’m  guest blogging about how black southerners negotiated the post-Civil War legal landscape.  In particular, I want to consider ho...