Legal History Blog

We're a bit late in noticing it, but the  American Journal of Legal History 64:4 has been published :  Mr Locke’s enclosure: the uncomm...

Lev Menand, Columbia Law School , has posted The Unitary Executive and the Federal Reserve : The Supreme Court may soon embrace an interpret...

Jared A. Ellias, Harvard Law School, and Narine Lalafaryan, University of Cambridge, have posted  The Global Law of Debt :  Corporate debt f...

New from Princeton University Press:   Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America   (2025), by  Peter Conti-Bro...

Josiah M. Daniel III , Vinson & Elkins and UT Austin, has posted The Historiographical Problem of Municipal Bankruptcy Law : This is the...

Christine A. Desan, Harvard Law School , has posted Public Banking in the United States: Historical Lessons for Today , which is forthcoming...

Sean Vanatta, University of Glasgow , has posted Revolving Door Governance: Bank Supervisors in the United States, 1863-1933 : Daniel R. Cri...

[We have the following announcement.   DRE] The global payments system represents the underlying plumbing of globalisation, determining the ...

Sean Vanatta, University of Glasgow has posted The Financialization of U.S. Public Pensions, 1945-1974 : This article examines a major tran...

We missed this April 2022 release from the University of North Carolina Press: Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit , by ...

We have the following Call for Papers: International conference, Paris, 26-27 January 2023 Varieties of supervision: The surveillance of ban...

New over at the University of Chicago Law Review Online : Race and the History of International Investment Law , by Felipe Ford Cole , Shars...

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

We missed this December 2020 release from Hart Publishing, but thanks to New Books Network , received word of it recently: The Legal History...

Victoria Barnes has published Anne Fleming’s History of Law and Consumer Finance in Enterprise & Society .  The essay is available onl...

Peter Conti-Brown and Brian D. Feinstein, University of Pennsylvania , on The Contingent Origins of Financial Legislation : Courts and scho...

American Predatory Lending and the Global Financial Crisis , a website with data visualizations, oral histories, and policy analyses, is now...

Michael Glass, Princeton University Department of History , and Sean Vanatta, New York University Gallatin School , have posted The Frail Bo...

Christine Kexel Chabot, Loyola University Chicago School of Law , has posted Is the Federal Reserve Constitutional? An Originalist Argument ...

Asiya Siddiqi, University of Mumbai, published Bombay's People, 1860-98: Insolvents in the City with Oxford University Press in 2018....