Legal History Blog

Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania , has posted The Holy Cause: Church and State in Revolutionary and Early National New Yo...

Thomas A. Smith , emeritus at University of San Diego School of Law , has posted Catholic Constitutional Republicanism: Suárez, the School o...

Dennis J. Wieboldt, III,  soon to be a VAP at Notre Dame Law , has posted William Bentley Ball and the "Century of Struggle" for S...

William Howard Taft ( LC ) Andrea Scoseria Katz on "Taft at the Beach: What the Supreme Court Misses About a Key Unitary Executive Pre...

Comparative Legal History 14:1 (2026) has been published.  Editorial David Schorr & Agustín Parise Comparative law today – tomes, theme...

S. Spencer Wells has published Disciplining Conscience: Judging Ecclesiastical Courts in the Early American Republi c in the Yale Journal o...

Nathan B. Oman, William & Mary Law School , has posted "All Other Religious Sects Shall Have Free Toleration": Recovering the ...

Dennis J Wieboldt, III , a JD-PhD candidate at Notre Dame , has published ‘But the original intent of the Constitution would be restored’: C...

John Witte, Jr., Emory University , and Andrea Pin, University of Padua , have published The Legal Foundations of Religious Freedom: Human R...

Benjamin Schonthal, University of Otago , has published Courts, Constitutions and Karma Buddhism, Law and the Practices of Legal Pluralism i...

John Witte, Jr.,  Emory University School of Law, an eminent historian of law and religion, has posted a number of his papers, most (but no...

Charlotte Christensen-Nugues, Lund University, has published, open-access,  Consent and Coercion: Forced Marriages in Supplications to the ...

We have word that the Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium will reconvene on March 7, 2026, from 10 AM to 3 PM on the Notre Dame La...

A historian's' amicus brief , sponsored by the Brennan Center for Justice, has been filed in United States v. Hemani , "a cons...

[We have the schedule for the ASLH/Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium to be held on February 7, 2026, from 10 AM - 4 PM (EST) at ...

The Duke Law Journal has published a Note of interest, on " The Second Amendment's Catholic Problem ." It is by J.D. candidate...

Adam B. Forsyth , a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Cambridge , has published England’s Erastus? Or, James Morice and the...

[From Ryan Greenwood, Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections, we have word of a new digital exhibit at the University of Minnesota La...

Sohaira Siddiqui, Georgetown University , has published  Islamic Law on Trial: Contesting Colonial Power in British India (University of Ca...

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