Legal History Blog

Out of the 'Witches' Cauldron'?: Reinterpreting the Context and Re-Assessing the Significance of the Hart-Fuller Debate is a ne...

Randall C.H. Lesaffer, Dean of Tilburg Law School , The Netherlands, has posted an essay about the nature of legal history, Law between Past...

Contributors are sought for The U.S. Justice System: An Encyclopedia , edited by Steven Harmon Wilson for ABC-CLIO. Here's the announc...

E-mail sent to me has been regularly getting caught in an overly ambitious spam filter. At least three messages sent during the past two wee...

Sunshine Cases of a Little Constitution is an essay by Ed Morgan, University of Toronto Faculty of Law . Here's the abstract: This pape...

"In a tense and adversarial meeting at the State Department yesterday, the chairman of the Department’s Historical Advisory Committee w...

Samuel Estreicher and Tristan Pelham-Webb, NYU Law School have posted The Wisdom of Soft Judicial Power: Mr. Justice Powell Concurring . Th...

Andrew Nash, Washington University-St. Louis School of Law , has posted what appeares to be a very useful piece of student work, The Origins...

Transformations in American Legal History: Essays in Honor of Professor Morton J. Horwitz, edited by Daniel W. Hamilton and Alfred L. Brop...

The University of Minnesota announces a legal history fellowship program for 200 9-10. Especially after Minnesota's strong hiring in th...

Milk "is about a movement, not a man," writes Stuart Klawans for The Nation (subscription required). For Klawans, the Gus Van Sa...

Black Gaius: A Quest for the Multicultural Origins of the 'Western Legal Tradition' has been posted on SSRN by P. G. Monateri, Univ...

Cristina Costantini, University of Bergamo , has posted a new paper, Equity Breaking Out: Politics as Justice . It will appear in POLEMOS ,...

Pavesich, Property and Privacy: The Common Origins of Property Rights and Privacy Rights in Georgia is a new article by Michael B. Kent Jr....

A reader, Robert Richards, very helpfully writes of the following articles in the Journal of British Studies that may be of interest to oth...

Randy E. Barnett, Georgetown University Law Center , questions common methods of drawing up on history in constitutional interpretation in a...

Katz and the Origins of the "Reasonable Expectation of Privacy" Test is a new article by Peter A. Winn, University of Washington ...

The Institute for Constitutional Studies of the George Washington University Law School announces its third regional workshop for college in...

Trevor W. Morrison, Columbia Law School , has posted The Story of United States v. United States District Court (Keith): The Surveillance Po...

Daniel J. Hulsebosch ,New York University School of Law, has posted Debating the Transformation of American Law: James Kent, Joseph Story, a...

I have only just spotted an advertisement for “Civil Rights and the Presidency: From Nixon to Obama,” this year’s Alan B. Larkin Symposium ...

Julia Ann Simon-Kerr , Yale JD 2008, draws upon legal history in Unchaste and Incredible: The Use of Gendered Conceptions of Honor in Impeac...

Marsha L. Baum and Christian G. Fritz, University of New Mexico School of Law , have posted American Constitution-Making: The Neglected Stat...

The deadline for proposals for the Law and Society Association annual meeting is today, December 8 . I am on the Program Committee, and I ...

Christopher W. Schmidt, American Bar Foundation , has posted Brown and the Colorblind Constitution , which is forthcoming in volume 94 of th...

Holiday books and best book lists are featured in the book pages this weekend. The big legal history winner? Annette Gordon-Reed , The Hemin...

Back in October, I posted an announcement of the Jerome Hall Postdoctoral Fellowship at Indiana University-Bloomington. The selectors have...

When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice , edited by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat , is now available for pre-or...

Terri L. Peretti, Political Science, Santa Clara University , examines the empirical assumptions underlying a classic work of constitutional...

Robert B. Thompson, Vanderbilt University School of Law , has posted The Story of Meinhard v. Sal mon and Fiduciary Duty's Punctilio . ...

Full Faith and Credit in the Early Congress is a new article by Stephen E. Sachs . It is forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review . Here'...

Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School , has posted an article, Foreign Law and American Constitutional Interpretation: A Long and Venerable Trad...

The Folger Library in Washington, D.C., announces a "late-spring" seminar, "Changing Conceptions of Property"," to ...

Katherine V. W. Stone, UCLA School of Law , has posted “ John R. Commons and the Origins of Legal Realism; or, the Other Tragedy of the Comm...

Paul A. Lombardo, Georgia State University College of Law , has posted the introduction and prologue to Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eu...

The Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society announces the opening of a new gallery in its Virtual Museum and Archive . "...

The American Historical Association's newsletter for the annual meeting, "New York City and Historians," brings word of the wi...

William E. Nelson, NYU Law School , has posted Summary Judgment and the Progressive Constitution , a contribution to a symposium on Suja Tho...

The Governing America in a Global Era program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs will host Jason Frank, Dep...