Legal History Blog

Today's Washington Post book review section leads off with a review by Robert Kagan of Michael B. Oren's new book, POWER, FAITH, ...

THE RACE BEAT: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation, by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff , is reviewed by R...

The Law and Politics Book Review has a new review by David Erdos, University of York , of Elizabeth Wick , THE EVOLUTION OF A CONSTITUTION:...

In light of the controversy over Cully Stimson's criticism of lawyers who represent Guantanamo detainees, Eric Muller at Is That Legal?...

Military Mercy , Linda Ross Meyer's (Quinnipiac) thoughtful new paper on clemency in courts martial, has its sights on contemporary a...

Mark McKenna, St. Louis University , has posted a new article, The Rehnquist Court and the Groundwork for Greater First Amendment Scrutiny o...

Todd Zywiki, George Mason and Anthony Sanders, Arnold and Kadjan, have posted a paper on SSRN, Posner, Hayek & the Economic Analysis of ...

J. Robert Brown, Jr., Univ. of Denver , has posted a paper on SSRN which has been published in the University of Richmond Law Review , The ...

The deadline for the Raoul Berger Visiting Fellowship in Legal History at Harvard Law School is coming up: February 1 . This is a great ...

The Chronicle of Higher Education is hosting a live web discussion of the newly released documents on Japanese war crimes during World War ...

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the National Archives is releasing 100,000 pages of new material relating to war crimes comm...

Alex Lichtenstein reviews Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the Nation , by Elizabeth Jacoway , in the Chicago Tribun...

Slate has followed up on its earlier story, based on Justice Brennan's papers. Jim Newton , author of Justice for All: Earl Warren an...

2007 Law & Social Inquiry Graduate Student Paper Competition The editors of Law & Social Inquiry are pleased to announce a competit...

The deadline for proposals for this year's American Studies Association meeting is January 27. The meeting is October 11-14 in Philadel...

Deadline: February 1 The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the ...

Archival research to do, workshops & a lecture mean that I will have a trip a week for the next three weeks, starting today. Apologies ...

REMINDER: Proposals for the 2007 American Society for Legal History conference are due soon-- February 1. For my original post, with link...

This goes in the keeping-an-eye-on-the-uses-of-history department: Robert Delahunty, Univ. of St. Thomas , and John Yoo, U.C. Berkeley , ha...

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the Thurgood Marshall Law Library at the University of Maryland announce a joint project to make ...

On Martin Luther King, Jr., Day , countless news sources will replay just part of King's speech at the March on Washington -- the secon...

Stephan Zeff, Rice University , has a new paper on SSRN, The SEC Rules Historical Cost Accounting: 1934 to the 1970s. Here's the abstr...

Kevin Noble Maillard , Syracuse University , has posted a new working paper on SSRN, The Heir-Cut of the Slave: Miscegenation and Disinherit...

JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE: DRAWING LESSONS FROM HISTORY A panel discussion including: Honorable Howard H. Baker, former U.S. Senator and U.S. Am...

Charles L Barzun , Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School , has posted an interesting new piece on SSRN, forthcoming in the Brigham Young Un...

There will be a debate on Book TV tonight between authors Arnold Grossman, " One Nation Under Guns ," and David Kopel, " Gu...

Today , Saturday, January 13, 3:55 pm Eastern time, on C-Span2 Book TV Interview with Ann McFeatters , author of " Sandra Day O'Co...

FOIA has a blog! Or, that is to say, FOIA lawyer, Scott Hodes , has a FOIA blog . The Freedom of Information Act is an essential tool for r...

One of Thurgood Marshall's favorite stories was about his work on the Constitution of Kenya. This new article, in the December 2006 issu...

From the World History Blog , this Press Release on a new project to digitalize selected holdings from the National Archives : (Press Releas...

M.C. Mirow, FIU College of Law , has posted short abstracts on SSRN for three recent pieces in Latin American legal history. The papers the...

The Civil War Memory blog has helpful posts on new books. Here's just a bit, and links: Nicholas and Peter Onuf , Nations, Markets and...

To continue a theme...here is a review from H-Maritime , by Timothy G. Lynch , Department of Global and Maritime Studies, California Maritim...

Randall C.H. Lesaffer, Universiteit van Tilburg , has a new article in the Journal of the History of International Law : Defensive Warfare,...

UCLA Law School has a great line-up for their Legal History Workshop for the Spring Semester, beginning with the always interesting Reuel ...

A new Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Law is available at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore . Here are the details: Applic...

Slate.com has posted the first in a three-part series on Justice William Brennan . While use of Brennan's papers is restricted, writer ...

The Law Librarian Blog , a good place for tips on books and research matters, notes the publication of Jean-Noel Jeanneney, Google and the M...

Rachel Godsil, Seton Hall, has new article, RACE NUISANCE: THE POLITICS OF LAW IN THE JIM CROW ERA , published in the December issue of the...

Through a tip from Cliopatria , I found my way to Strange Maps , where I found this image of what is apparently the original gerrymander. I...

Douglas Hedin has posted a paper on SSRN: Strangers Within the Gates: Ethnic and National Stereotyping in the Sacco-Vanzetti Case . Here...

Call for Papers: Twentieth-Century Panel Sessions on Transnationalism German Studies Association Conference, San Diego, October 4-7, 2007 ...

Paul Spruhan , law clerk at the Navajo Nation Supreme Court , has a new article in the South Dakota Law Review, just posted on SSRN: A Lega...

Claire Priest, Northwestern , has published CREATING AN AMERICAN PROPERTY LAW: ALIENABILITY AND ITS LIMITS IN AMERICAN HISTORY , in the Dece...

Jonathan Zasloff, UCLA , has a new paper on SSRN: More Realism About Realism: Dean Acheson and the Jurisprudence of Cold War Diplomacy . H...

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports in its Jan. 12 issue about a new service purporting to rank scholarly productivity in graduate pr...

At the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, held at multiple hotels in Atlanta this past weekend, a distinguished historian was a...

James Donovan, Univ. of Georgia, has a new paper on SSRN: Prolegomenon to a Fairness-Centered Anthropology of Law . Here's the abstract...

Joshua Tate, Southern Methodist University , has an article forthcoming in the American Journal of Legal History , posted on SSRN: Ownership...