Legal History Blog

Daniel J. Sharfstein , who is starting this fall at Vanderbilt as an Assistant Professor of Law, has a new article in the Minnesota Law Rev...

Ralph Luker notes that "Nicholas Wade's preview of Gregory Clark's A Farewell to Alms , " In Dusty Archives, A Theory of...

To follow up on the last post, Shawn Francis Peters has another, more recent book: The Yoder Case: Religious Freedom, Education, and Parent...

Allen K. Rostron, University of Missouri , Kansas City, School of Law , has just posted a review essay, Demythologizing the Legal History o...

Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Georgetown , has posted a new essay, Taking Law and.....Really Seriously: Before, During and After the Law . It has b...

Penelope Pether, Villanova University School of Law , has posted the abstract for a new essay, Regarding the Miller Girls: Daisy, Judith, an...

Paulo D. Barrozo, Harvard , has published a new essay, Punishing Cruelly: Punishment, Cruelty, and Mercy . It appears in the journal Crimin...

Sherry Colb recommends Elyn Saks' new book, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness in a must-read post on Dorf on Law . ...

The Lillian Robinson Scholars Program has just been established to provide funding to bring outstanding feminist scholars to the Simone de ...

David Abraham, University of Miami , has posted a new paper, Doing Justice on Two Fronts: The Liberal Dilemma in Immigration. Here's t...

Larry Solum gives advice to graduate students on the Legal Theory Blog about making unpublished work available on SSRN . He says in part:...

End of summer is the time that some of you are moving off for a visit, a first job, a post-doc, grad school or law school. It seems a good ...

A superb post-doc opportunity at Columbia University . Deadline October 8, 2007. Hat tip . The Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humani...

More from Susan Carle, American University : a series of earlier articles, recently posted, on the history of legal ethics. These two arti...

This spring, Susan Carle, American University , posted on SSRN a series of earlier articles on the history of legal ethics. While we use S...

The "most widely circulated and cited unpublished manuscript in twentieth-century American legal scholarship since Hart & Sacks...

More from Matthew J. Festa , VAP at South Texas College of Law and the University of Georgia School of Law, on the way courts use history....

BlackPast.org , according to Elizabeth Grant of the AHA Blog , "has so much quality information in one place, this site just might be ...

Matthew J. Festa has posted a rather timely new article, Applying a Usable Past: The Use of History in Law . It is forthcoming in the Seto...

Were we naturally selected to be capitalists? " Gregory Clark , an economic historian at the University of California , Davis, believes...

Jody Lyneé Madeira, Indiana University -- Bloomington , has posted an article that speaks both to constructions and uses of "homosexual...

"Oliver W. Hill, 100, a Virginia lawyer who helped overturn legal segregation in his native state and was one of the country's fore...

"The right to bargain collectively has been enshrined in federal law for decades," Michael O'Donnell writes in a review of a ...

It's not just that Wikipedia needs your help , with incomplete law-related entries, as previously noted. IntLawGrrls points out that w...

SEIZING DESTINY: How America Grew from Sea to Shining Sea , by Richard Kluger , is reviewed this week in the Washington Post and the New Yo...

Nancy MacLean , Department of History, Northwestern University , is the 2007 winner of the J. Willard Hurst Prize for the best book in Amer...

Well...history blogger Ralph Luker notes that since Wikipedia plays such an important role in history education, some historians are worki...

James R. Ransband and Megan Garrett , both of Brigham Young University , have posted a new paoer, A New Era in Public Land Policy? The Shif...

Kevin J. Mullen, Dangerous Strangers: Minority Newcomers and Criminal Violence in the Urban West, 1850-2000 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) is r...

Richard K. Sherwin, New York Law School , has posted a new essay, Law, Metaphysics and the New Iconoclasm . It is forthcoming in the journa...