Legal History Blog

David Gindis, University of Warwick Law School , and Steven G. Medema, Duke University , have posted Henry Manne, Pareto in the Pines, and t...

Mike Widener , formerly Rare Book Librarian in the Lillian Goldman Law Library at the Yale Law School, has made two recent articles availabl...

An alarming opinion of the Office of Legal Counsel of the US Department of Justice advising White House Counsel that the Presidential Recor...

 [We have the following announcement.  DRE.  H/t: DS] The Twining-Llewellyn Fund is a unique collection of several hundred documents and wo...

Nathan Dorn , the Curator of Rare Books at the Law Library of Congress, on  Hippolytus de Marsiliis: The First Criminal Law Professor and H...

Carole Prietto , the archivist of Georgetown Law , recently asked me about the history of courses designed to prepare law graduates for the ...

[We have the following announcement .  DRE] The Fall 2025 James McCormick Mitchell Lecture at the University at Buffalo School of Law  Frida...

William Michael Treanor and Amy Uelmen, Georgetown University Law Center , have posted Religious Freedom, Jesuit Mission, and DEI , which i...

Jedidiah J. Kroncke, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law , has posted Model, System, or Node? Understanding Legal Education Reform in Twe...

Ira C. Lupu, George Washington University Law School , has posted Gloria Steinem at the Harvard Law Review Banquet , which appeared in the ...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] The Journal of Legal Education is the official scholarly journal of the [Association of American...

Over at the Law & Political Economy Blog: Evan Bernick (Northern Illinois University College of Law) on " The Anti-Constitutional A...

As an heir, through John Langbein when he taught at the University of Chicago, to the "Development of Legal Institutions" traditio...

The recording of that interview of Robert Post , on his Holmes Devise volume, The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation , by William M...

Christopher L. Tomlins, Berkeley Law , has written, as a digital "flipbook," Legal History/History of Law at Berkeley, 1870-2024 ...

[We have the following CFP .  DRE.] Learning about the law: Historical perspectives on public legal education for laypersons and underprivil...

The American Journal of Legal History 63:4 (December 2023) has now been published online .  Here's the TOC: The Abolition of the Right ...

Annette E. Clark has published “What’s Past Is Prologue”: The Story of the Sale of the University of Puget Sound School of Law to Seattle U...

JoAnne Epps and Craig Green, Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law , have posted Black Lawyers Matter: An Oral History of Race-I...

From the LPEblog: Talia Rothstein on " What Law Clinics Left Behind ." "[T]he rise of clinics did not represent a simple vic...