Legal History Blog

This is a guest post from Karen Tani , Sharswood Fellow in Law and History at the University of Pennsylvania. This past Friday at the annua...

The New Zealand & Australian Studies Section of the Western Social Science Association invites the submission of scholarly inquiries ...

Sutherland Prize Committee of the American Society for Legal History has announced its selection for 2008. Here is the announcement: The Su...

Christian W. McMillen, University of Virginia, was awarded the John Phillip Reid Book Award last weekend at the American Society for Legal...

CALL FOR PAPERS: Law, Literature, and Film In December 2009 the Stetson Law Review will publish a symposium issue on law, literature, and ...

Richard T. Middleton IV, University of Missouri, St. Louis , has a recent essay, The Historical Legal Construction of Black Racial Identity ...

A quick Sunday book round-up. John Demos's "intriguing" new book, The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the West...

The Historical Foundations of Communications Regulation is a new paper by Frederic M. Scherer, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvar...

The Department of History COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Announces Claiming the World: Universalisms as Doctrine and in Action A Graduate Student Confe...

Robert J. Delahunty, University of St. Thomas School of Law , has posted "Herbert Butterfield, Christianity, and International Law,...

Copyright, Originality, and the Public Domain in Eighteenth-Century England by Simon Stern , Faculty of Law, University of Toronto , is pos...

Julie A. Oseid, University of St. Thomas School of Law , has posted "The Power of Brevity: Adopt Abraham Lincoln's Habits," w...

Ariela Gross's new book, What Blood Won't Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America , is reviewed by Laura Miller in Salon . Mil...

Harry Blackmun's centennial is remembered today at IntLawGrrls . Justice Blackmun's life is chronicled in Linda Greenhouse , Becomi...

The Governing America in a Global Era (GAGE) program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs will host Richard J...

Eric Wilson, Monash University Faculty of Law , has posted "On Heterogeneity and the Naming of DE INDIS of Hugo Grotius," which a...

Suppose you were a legal historian who taught at an American law school, and suppose a colleague proposed the creation of a team-taught, ye...

The Prophetic Nature of Equity is a new essay by Pier Giuseppe Monateri, University of Torino, School of Law . It appears in THE CONCEPT O...

At 12:30 on Thursday, November 13, Keith Whittington, Politics Department, Princeton University , will be presenting on the "Political ...

Lawsuits in Context is a new essay by Ernest Metzger, University of Glasgow School of Law . It appears in BEYOND DOGMATICS. LAW AND SOCIETY...

Realizing a Constitutional Social Right - Cultural Transformation, Deep Institutional Reform, and the Roles of Advocacy and Adjudication is...

On Wednesday, November 5, I delivered some remarks at a faculty lunch at Georgetown Law about Paul R. Dean (1918-2008), who was the school...

One of the big new books to look for is Thomas Sugrue , Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North , just o...

A political diversion for your Saturday, courtesy of my 17-year-old...

Garrett Epps, University of Baltimore School of Law, has posted an article, The Antebellum Political Background of the Fourteenth Amendment...

Simon Deakin, University of Cambridge , has posted a new paper, Legal Origin, Juridical Form and Industrialisation in Historical Perspective...

Nordic Law - Between Tradition and Dynamism , edited by Jaakko Husa, University of Joensuu, Kimmo Nuotio, University of Helsinki , and Heikk...

Judith C. Areen, Georgetown University Law Center , has posted Government as Educator: A New Understanding of First Amendment Protection of ...

Finishing a Friendly Argument: The Jury and the Historical Origins of Diversity Jurisdiction is a new article by Robert L. Jones, Northern ...

Debra Lyn Bassett, University of Alabama School of Law , and Rex Perschbacher, University of California, Davis School of Law , have posted T...

A Legislative and Political History of ERISA Preemption, Part 3 , is a recently posted paper by James A. Wooten, University at Buffalo Law S...

"Just wanted to share my joy across the Atlantic," wrote a friend from Paris this morning, as the world celebrated Barack Obama’s ...

Daniel P. Tokaji, Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law , looks to the past to inform the present in a new article, Voter Registratio...

And after you vote, if you're looking for legal news about the election, the best place to go is always Rick Hanson's Election Law B...

If you are attending the American Society for Legal History meeting in Ottawa next week, and you would like to submit a guest post about a ...

Nominations are open for the 2008 Cliopatria Awards in history blogging. The categories are: Best Group Blog Best Individual Blog Best New ...