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Awash in exuberance here in Inaugural Washington, I am reminded of an artifact from an earlier era, Jimmy Durante's fight talk on behalf...

Those of us who were introduced to the world of the nineteenth-century American lawyer by volume 1 of Andrew J. King and Alfred S. Konefsky...

The "foot soldiers" of the civil rights movement are remembered today in the Atlanta Journal's coverage of Martin Luther King...

Legal History Blog welcomes to the blogosphere the Edinburgh Legal History Blog , published by the Centre for Legal History at Edinburgh, at...

Another legal historical website I somehow missed is that of the Francis Forbes Society for Australian Legal History . It looks quite livel...

The presidency, along with various forms of Obama-mania, headline the book pages this weekend. For an historic example, FDR, rather than Lin...

The deadline for submitting proposals for the 2009 American Society for Legal History conference is coming up on February 6 . For this meet...

Jerry Louis Mashaw, Yale Law School , has posted a new article, Government Practice and Presidential Direction: Lessons from the Antebellum ...

I missed the kick-off last year of the peer-reviewed, on-line Journal of Civil Law Studies . It is published by the Center of Civil Law St...

Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School has posted Was Dred Scott Correctly Decided? An "Expert Report" for the Defendant , which appear...

What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America by Peggy Pascoe has just been published by Oxford University Pre...

In light of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearings on the nomination of Eric Holder to be Attorney General of the United States, I wa...

The program committee is in the middle of its work for the 2009 meeting of the Law and Society Association. I am serving on the committee...

The Constitutional Sources Project , a 501(c)(3) public charity which has created an online library of constitutional sources at ConSource.o...

Rob Richards sends us the following summary of a recent article in the Law Quarterly Review : In a recent note, Sir John Baker reports confi...

Alexander Tsesis, Loyola University of Chicago Law School , draws upon constitutional history in a new article, Principled Governance: The A...

Steven Teles, Johns Hopkins University, has posted Transformative Bureaucracy: Reagan's Lawyers and the Dynamics of Political Investmen...

The Warren Court, Legalism and Democracy: Sketch for a Critique in a Style Learned from Morton Horwitz is a new essay by William H. Simon, ...

In the series of farewells in the final days of the Bush Administration, it seems a good time to reflect on perhaps the most memorable of fa...

Dr. King and the Battle for Hearts and Minds is a new article by Wendy B. Scott, North Carolina Central University , and Visiting Professor...

John Q. Barrett, St. John's University School of Law , announces, via his "Jackson List," the publication in the St. John'...

Over at the University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog , Randy Pickar, who is team-teaching a seminar on Bailouts with Douglas Baird and ...

Hiroshi Motomura, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law , draws in part on history in his new essay Immigration Outside the L...

Anura Surindra Ratnapala, T.C. Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland has posted Eighteenth Century Evolutionary Thought and its Re...

The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America by S teven Johnson , a biography of 18th century scie...

Of Historiography and Constitutional Principle: Jefferson's Reply to the Danbury Baptists is an article by Ian C. Bartrum, Vermont Law ...

Appropriately in advance of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has posted fo...

Beyond Incorporation is a new paper by Kurt T. Lash, Loyola Law School Los Angeles. Here's the Abstract: Incorporation as a theo...

I'm moving up this previously posted call for papers for the annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History as a reminder tha...

How we Lost our Moral Rights and the Door Closed on Non-Economic Values in Copyright is an article by Susan Liemer, Southern Illinois Unive...

Backbone of the Federal Judiciary: The Study and Biography of Federal Appellate Judges is the topic of this year's Section on Legal His...

The Intersection of Race and Class in U.S. Immigration Law and Enforcement is a new article by Kevin R. Johnson, Dean, University of Califo...

This post is part of a project that seeks to unpack the concept of "wartime," and to illuminate the impact of assumptions about wa...