Legal History Blog

History and the Constitution: Collected Essays , by G. Edward White , (Carolina Academic Press, 2007) is reviewed in the Law and Politics B...

Nathan B. Oman, College of William & Mary , has posted a second paper on Mormon Legal History: The Rise and Fall of Civil Disputes in M...

Brenda V. Smith, American University , has posted an article, Sexual Abuse of Women in United States Prisons: A Modern Corollary of Slavery ...

Thomas Y. Davies, Univ. of Tennessee , has posted an article, What Did the Framers Know, and When Did They Know it? Fictional Originalism in...

Since J. Edgar Hoover is getting renewed attention, with a new biography out on his early years , it’s a good time to revisit an earlier bo...

This is a nice opportunity, but the focus of an applicant's scholarship must be quite specific: comparative legal history of 19th centur...

Marianne Mimi Wesson, University of Colorado , has posted a new article, 'Remarkable Strategems and Conspiracies': How Unscrupulous ...

Daniel H. Erskine, Esq., has posted a brief abstract for an article, Resolving Trade Disputes, the Mechanisms of GATT/WTO Dispute Resolutio...

"The writer and the terrorist have something in common," writes Andrew O'Hagan in a brilliant review of Don DeLillo, Falling ...

Sunday, June 10, 6:00 pm and at 9:00 pm , Eastern time, US on C-Span Book TV : After Words : Kenneth Ackerman , author of " Young J. ...

A new biography about the rise and fall of a South African leader, SHADES OF DIFFERENCE: Mac Maharaj and the Struggle for South Africa (Vik...

Andrew P. Morriss, University of Illinois, has posted a new paper, Gasoline, Markets, and Regulators. Here's the abstract: Rising gas...

Mark Weston Janis, University of Connecticut , has posted a new article, How “Wilsonian” was Woodrow Wilson? It has just been published in...

On November 27, 2006, the Legal History Blog was launched. The next day, Eric Muller kindly informed this new and clueless blogger about si...

Did "everything change" on September 11? This historical question has important consequences, since post-9/11 policies are often ...

Thomas D. Lyon, USC Law School , and Raymond LaMagna, Irell & Manella , have posted an article, The History of Children's Hearsay: F...

Robert Post and Reva Siegel , both of Yale Law School , have posted an article that is an important intervention in the scholarship about ...

Call for papers: GENDER AND THE LONG POSTWAR: Reconsiderations of the United States and the Two Germanys, 1945-1989 Conference to be held at...

William Banks, Syracuse , has posted the abstract for a new article, The Death of Fisa . It is forthcoming in the Minnesota Law Review . T...

Thomas Y. Davies, Univ. of Tennessee, has posted an article, The Fictional Character of Law-and-Order Originalism: A Case Study of the Disto...

Matej Avbelj, European University Institute , and Jernej Letnar Černič, University of Aberdeen , have posted a new article, The Conundrum of...

Tim Wu, Columbia , has posted the abstract for a new paper, On the History of Internet Governance . The paper itself is not posted, but you...

Legal History blogging this week will be from New Orleans, where I will be at the Amistad Research Center . The Amistad Center holds many im...

Mary L. Dudziak and Leti Volpp , eds., Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders (The Johns Hopkins UniversityPress,...

M.C. Mirow, FIU College of Law , has posted a new article, Marbury in Mexico: Judicial Review's Precocious Southern Migration , forthcom...

Sudha Setty, Western New England College , has posted a new article, The President's Question Time: Power, Information and the Executive...

Elizabeth Foyster , Marital Violence: An English Family History, 1660-1857 (Cambridge University Press, 2005) is reviewed on H-Law by Marj...

The New York Times has its summer reading recommendations in the book review section this Sunday. But my choice, a must read for any academ...

Mark Walters, Queen's University , has posted a paper, Hercules as Legal Humanist: Historicizing Dworkin's Jurisprudence . Here...

If you are still using old fashioned tapes to record oral history interviews...it's time to go shopping. I've just completed some in...

"I said in a former letter that you were a Lawyer," Charles Darwin wrote to Asa Gray , on September 10, 1860, in a letter heaping...

MANY MINDS, ONE HEART: SNCC's Dream for a New America (Univ. of North Carolina Press) by Wesley C. Hogan was reviewed yesterday in the...