Legal History Blog

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History 34 (2026) out now.  It is the journal of the Max Planck Institu...

Legal historian Sarah Gronningsater, University of Pennsylvania , has been appointed to the Evan C Thompson Chair for Excellence in Teaching...

Michael L. Smith, University of Oklahoma College of Law , and Yoo Jung Chang , a cellist, have posted Stravinsky's National Anthem : Igo...

Daimeon Shanks-Dumont , a Ph.D. Candidate in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the  University of California, Berkeley, School ...

Via the American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA): a recording is now available of the recent webinar on "Indigenou...

We have word of The Fine Script , a conference exploring comparative approaches to legal marginalia circulating in Europe and the Middle Eas...

"On the 250th anniversary of America’s independence, Harvard Law historian and legal scholar Bruce H. Mann argues that colonists were ...

Marco Basile, Boston College Law School, has posted Old Textualism, New Juristocrac y, which is forthcoming in the New York University Law ...

Matthew Ritger, Dartmouth College , has published Houses of Correction: Carceral Institutions and Humanist Culture in Early Modern England ...

Daniel Newman ,  Cardiff University , has published Law and Justice in Song Murder Ballads and Popular Music (Routledge): This book examine...

Performing Law: Actors, Affects, Spaces , edited by Peter Goodrich, Cardozo School of Law , A nna Jayne Kimmel, George Washington University...

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

Paul Mitchell, University College London , has published Gaskell and the Law (Hart/Bloomsbury): Elizabeth Gaskell is best known today as a ...

[We have the following CFP for The Four Nations Law and the Humanities Forums .  DRE] We are excited to announce the calls for papers for Fo...

[We have the following CFP.  DRE.] On behalf of the organizers, the Polish Academy of Sciences – Scientific Centre in Vienna, the Faculty of...

[We have the following Call for Participation for the 2026 Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior Scholars.  DRE] Georgetown University Law ...

Paul J. du Plessis, University of Edinburgh , has published Henry Maine’s Ancient Law as an Expression of Victorian Humanism (University of...

New online from Law and History Review : Potential Legal History in the Art of Sonny Liew  by  Benjamin Goh, National University of Singapor...

The University of Wisconsin Law School ’s  State Democracy Research Initiative  (SDRI) has put together an amazing resource on state constit...

Dmitry Poldnikov, MGIMO University, Moscow , has posted Dialogical Narrative in Comparative Legal History : As a well-established academic d...