Legal History Blog

White Cartels, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and the History of Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. is a new article by Darrell A. H. Miller, Univ...

We like to post about upcoming events in legal history . If you have a legal history workshop or if your university will be hosting a confer...

For any readers at Wesleyan, and in the greater Middletown, CT area, I will be speaking at Broad Street Books this Wednesday, September 24,...

Eugene Volokh, UCLA School of Law , has posted a new article, Symbolic Expression and the Original Meaning of the First Amendment . It is fo...

In the Sweat Box: A Historical Perspective on the Detention of Material Witnesses has just been posted by Carolyn B. Ramsey, University of...

Debunking the Myth of Civil Rights Liberalism: Visions of Racial Justice in the Thought of T. Thomas Fortune, 1880-1890 is a new paper by ...

CAPITOL MEN: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen by Philip Dray is reviewed in the Washingt...

"The Hemingses of Monticello is a brilliant book," write Edmund S. Morgan and Marie Morgan in the New York Review of Books. ...

[The following is the fourth in a series of posts on Roscoe Pound and the administrative state. The series starts here .] Roscoe Pound’s “...

Ryan P. Alford , an attorney at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, has posted, How Do You Trim the Seamless Web? Considering the Uninten...

 [The following is the third in a series of posts on Roscoe Pound and the administrative state. The series starts here.] If Roscoe Pound e...

John Bradford Braithwaite, Australian National University, and Sinclair Dinnen , have posted Reinventing Policing Through the Prism of the C...

The Ohio University Press announces the publication of the History of Nebraska Law, edited by Alan G. Gless, in the series, Law, Society, a...

Frank R. Herrmann, Boston College Law School, and Brownlow M. Speer, Committee for Public Counsel Services , have posted the paper, S tandin...

Here is the fall line up for the Legal History Forum of the Yale Law School: Tuesday, September 23 Jay M. Winter, Yale University, “From...

Here , belatedly, is the fall line-up for the Legal History Colloquium at the Harvard Law School: Thursday, September 11 Charles Donahue ...

"Dear Mother," wrote Lloyd Gaines , on March 3, 1939. "I have come to Chicago hoping to make it possible to make my own way....

[The following is the second in a series of posts on Roscoe Pound and the administrative state. The series starts here . This post draws ...

Zvi S. Rosen, an associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, has posted In Search of the Trade-Mark Cases , a unanimous decis...

Adriaan Lanni, Harvard Law School has posted the paper, Social Norms in the Courts of Ancient Athens , which is forthcoming in the peer-rev...

Just a note of explanation: you may not hear much from me this week. I'm teaching an intensive course on Thurgood Marshall and Civil R...

To my left as I write this, Roscoe Pound looks down from an autographed portrait, academic robes, Phi Beta Kappa key, kindly countenance and...

The Indiana Supreme Court sponsors a remarkable Legal History Lecture Series. " Why It Mattered That Lincoln Was a Lawyer: Abraham Li...

Mary is more systematic than I about surveying the book reviews, but I didn't want the appreciative notice in the Washington Post of An...

I recently discovered a list of the Crosskey and Fulton lectures in legal history at the University of Chicago Law School, here . Downloads ...

Carolyn B. Ramsey, University of Colorado Law School , has posted In the Sweat Box: A Historical Perspective on the Detention of Material Wi...

Stephanie Hunter McMahon, University of Cincinnati College of Law , has posted the paper To Save State Residents: States' Use of Communi...

The Cost of Property Rights: Establishing Institutions on the Philippine Frontier under American Rule, 1898-1918 , is a new paper by Lakshmi...

The Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas-Austin announces its 2008-09 calender of events , the first of two years de...

What Blood Won't Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America by Ariela J. Gross, USC , has just been published by Harvard University Pr...

Stephen A. Siegel, DePaul University College of Law , has posted three papers spanning of number of years. The first is The Conscientious C...

The Emergence of English Commercial Law: Analysis Inspired by Ottoman Experience is a new paper by Daniel Klerman, University of Southern C...

'To Lay and Collect': Governors, Fiscal Federalism, and the Political Economy of Twentieth-Century Tax Policy is a new essay by Aja...

Having Thomas Jefferson's first draft of the Declaration of Independence edited, first by a committee of five, and then by Congress, sur...

University of Minnesota Program in Law and History Legal History Workshop Fall 2008 Schedule of Speakers September 18 Douglas Baynton, Hist...