Legal History Blog

Stephen Baxter, Julia Crick , and C. P. Lewis have published Making Domesday: Intelligent Power in Conquered England (Oxford): Making Domes...

New online from Law and History Review : Sara M. Butler 's Context Matters: Understanding Why Medieval Legislators Chose to Regulate Wom...

Desiree Desierto and Mark Koyama ( George Mason University) and Jacob Hall ( University of Pennsylvania ) have posted Magna Carta : King...

[We have the following Call for Papers .  DRE] The Medieval Academy at 100: The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America.  Ha...

“At UC Law SF this year, [UCLA History Professor Benjamin Madley ] he will embark on a new research project, with Indigenous Law Center Fac...

Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Harvard Law School, has published open access Finding Facts in Medieval English Law , in the Journal of Legal Analys...

Spike Gibbs, Universität Mannheim, has published Lordship, State Formation and Local Authority in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (...

“ Those Things Which Are Written in Romance: Language and Law Teaching in Thirteenth-Century England ,” an article by Thomas J. McSweeney, ...

Via the op-ed pages of the New York Times : Kate Redburn (Columbia Law School), " We Have Fought Anti-Trans Laws and Won Before. We Ca...

Amsterdam University Press has published Scripting Justice in Late Medieval Europe: Legal Practice and Communication in the Law Courts of Ut...

In the Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy , Greg Walker , Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edin...

 The Studies in Legal History Series at Cambridge University Press has released by V ernacular Law : Writing and the Reinvention of Customar...

After a content warning that the event would "discuss sensitive and potentially triggering topics including sexual assault," the N...

Brepols Publisher has released Beyond Exclusion in Medieval Ireland: Intersections of Ethnicity, Sex, and Society Under English Law (2022),...

Congratulations to Annette Gordon-Reed on her receipt of Mass Humanities’s Governor’s Award in the Humanities!  ( HLT ) UC Irvine ’s notice...

The American Historical Association has established $500 emergency grants to "assist un/underemployed historians who have been financ...

 [We have the following press release from Western Michigan University.  DRE.] Two Western Michigan University faculty members have been a...

[We have the following announcement from the Selden Society.  DRE]  David Yale Prize Instituted in 1998, this biennial prize is awarded fo...

Apologies for having missed this one.  Philippa Byrne has published J ustice and Mercy: Moral Theology and the Exercise of Law in Twelfth-C...

We want to thank Thomas McSweeney of William & Mary Law for his series of posts prompted by his recently published book Priests of th...