Legal History Blog

[We have the schedule for the first meeting this academic year of the Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium on September 26, 2026, 1...

[We are moving this previously posted announcement up because the deadline of January 15 is approaching.  DRE.] Harvard Law Schoo l invites ...

[We have the following call for applicants .  DRE]  Graduate Fellows Summer Research Institute in U.S. Law and Race, June 7-26, 2026  Call f...

 [We have the following announcement.  H/t: H-Law .  DRE.] The Supreme Court Historical Society invites submissions for the Hughes-Gossett ...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] As of 2023, the Supreme Court Historical Society awards the Henry J. Abraham Early Career Researc...

Over at the New Republic : John Fabian Witt (Yale Law School) reviews Aziz Rana 's The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idoliz...

[We have the following announcement, from a press release from Notre Dame Law .  DRE.] With the financial support of the American Society f...

 [We have the following announcement.  DRE] The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities is excited to announce that we...

 [We have the following “Call for Participation.”  DRE] Georgetown University Law Center, Stanford Law School, UCLA School of Law, the Unive...

[We have the following announcement of the Twelfth Annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition.  DRE.] The Legal History and Rare Books...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] The Program Committee of the American Society for Legal History has prepared a tip sheet, Creati...

We have an announcement of the University of Bordeaux-TAU Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Students Legal History Virtual Workshop, to be held Thu...

I wrote in my last post about the writing process I used as I worked my way out of a nasty bout of writers’ block. Those individual techniq...

In my last post I wrote about getting writer’s block while in graduate school, after having written a rough draft of the dissertation. This...

One email, six excruciating months. “Dear Nate, We were excited to read the draft of your dissertation. What a great project! We’ve attached...

Congratulations to Ivon Padilla-Rodriguez , Columbia University , and former LHB Associate Blogger Smita Ghosh , University of Pennsylvania ...

[ Lauren Benton , President of the American Society for Legal History , has announced the following initiative.  Please note that eligibili...

[We have the following announcement from the Cromwell Dissertation Prize Committee of the American Society for Legal History.  DRE] The Crom...

[We have two announcements from the American Society for Legal History for M.A. students, Ph.D. students, and law students whose interests ...

The Max Planck Institute for European Legal History invites doctoral students and young researchers to participate in study sessions on “...