Legal History Blog

If you are attending the American Society for Legal History meeting this weekend, reports on panels and other legal history news would be w...

Andy G. Orlee, Faulkner University , has posted a new article, James Madison and Legislative Chaplains . It is forthcoming in the Northwest...

The best coverage I've found of the California wildfire disaster is at the Los Angeles Times , with updated news stories, blogs and many...

The Puzzle of Abu Ghraib: Are Democratic Institutions a Palliative or Panacea? is a new essay by Christian Davenport , Department of Govern...

Donald J. Kochan, Chapman University School of Law , has posted an essay, Symposium Introduction - Miranda at 40: Applications in a Post-En...

For SSRN papers, for grant applications, sometimes for law review articles, and other purposes, we often have to write abstracts. But no one...

Chris Eisgruber follows up on his first post at Balkinization with more on the legacy of the Bork hearings, from his book, The Next Justi...

Patrick M. Garry, University of South Dakota Law School , has posted an article, Accommodating the Administrative State: The Interrelationsh...

"What Is a 'Successful' Blog?" asks the Chronicle of Higher Ed ucation . Is a blog successful if it gets a lot of page vie...

From Al Brophy at Property Prof, a reminiscence from Thomas Linton , who is a Presbyterian minister and a Tuscaloosa barber, in the Tuscalo...

Dalia Tsuk Mitchell, George Washington University Law School , has posted an article, Corporations Without Labor: The Politics of Progressiv...

William W. Bratton, Georgetown , and Michael L. Wachter, University of Pennsylvania , have posted a new paper, Shareholder Primacy's Cor...

Douglas Linder, University of Missouri, Kansas City, has just posted four papers on SSRN about important historic trials. Linder's help...

Young Stalin (Knopf) by Simon Sebag Montefiore is reviewed for the Moscow Times by Walter G. Moss , Eastern Michigan University. Moss wri...

David Gergen weighs in on the Bush presidency in a review of four recent books in today's Boston Globe . On Gergen's argument that ...

WEIMAR GERMANY: Promise and Tragedy (Princeton University Press), by Eric D. Weitz is reviewed by Brian Ladd in today's New York Time...

Catherine Roraback , attorney for the plaintiffs in the landmark case establishing the right to birth control, Griswold v. Connecticut (19...

Lawrence McNamara, School of Law, University of Reading , has posted an article, History, Memory and Judgment: Holocaust Denial, the History...

I will be traveling , so apologies if there is little on the blog for a couple of days.

Time to set the Tivo. There's a great weekend for history coming up at C-Span2 Book TV . On the schedule are: Saturday at 1:15 PM, and ...

Adriaan Lanni, Law and Justice in the Courts of Classical Athens (Cambridge University Press, 2006) is reviewed in the Law and History Re...

Papers from the 18th British Legal History Conference: Judges and Judging held at the University of Oxford, England, July 2007, are now ava...

Chris Eisgruber, Princeton University , is guest blogging at Balkinization on the legacy of the Bork hearings. His first post begins: This...

Lawrence E. Mitchell, George Washington University Law School , has posted on SSRN the prologue and table of contents of his new book, The ...

Rothchild, Wayne State University Law School , has posted a new paper, Introduction to Athenian Democracy of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries ...

Constitutional scholar and historian David Currie , Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago , pa...

David Garrow claims that other reviewers have "missed the lede" on the new Clarence Thomas biography , suggesting that "Any ...

Salvador Carmona, Instituto de Empresa , and Rafael Donoso Anes, University of Seville , have posted a paper, Cost Accounting in Early Regul...

American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II by Eric Muller has just been published by the University of...

Jerry Louis Mashaw, Yale Law School , has posted a new article, Administration and "The Democracy": Administrative Law from Jackso...

Republic.com 2.0 by Cass R. Sunstein (Princeton University Press) is reviewed by Jerome Weeks for the San Francisco Chronicle . Weeks beg...

THE TERROR DREAM: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America by Susan Faludi (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company) is reviewed this wee...

Carlton Waterhouse, Florida International University , suggests that "the civil rights legislation of the 1960s and 1970s represented o...