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The organizers of the nineteenth annual British Legal History Conference , to be held at the University of Exeter, 8-11 July 2009, have sent...

The New Originalism Meets the Fourteenth Amendment: Original Public Meaning and the Problem of Incorporation is a new article by Lawrence R...

Here is a website on Wisconsin legal history by the State Bar of Wisconsin's journal, Wisconsin Lawyer . Many of the contributions are...

“In the summer of 1907, the world declared Korea illegal.” That’s a great first sentence for any book, but for Alexis Dudden, the fact many ...

Jonathan Rose, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University , will speak on "Musing on Clio : Why Study the Past, H...

Kenneth N. Klee, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law announces his new book, Bankruptcy and the Supreme Court (LexisNexis,...

"Slavery, Abolition, and Human Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Thirteenth Amendment" is a conference to be held Ap...

The Law Society announces the opening of the exhibit "From Minority to Majority: The Rise of Women in the Solicitors' Profession...

Recent guest blogger Emily Kadens, University of Texas School of Law , has just posted three papers on SSRN. The first is Justice Blackston...

Thanks to the prescience of a group of legal secretaries in 1966, the oral history of a long-serving judge in Abilene, Texas, J. R. Black, w...

The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, in Staunton, Virginia, will present its next national symposium, "World of Power/World of Law...

The last few issues of the Chronicle of Higher Education have featured many exciting new books in legal history. Here are a few, along with ...

FAMILY PROPERTIES: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America by Beryl Satter is reviewed in the Washington Post by D...

Executive Branch Contempt of Congress is a new article by Josh Chafetz, Cornell Law School . It is forthcoming in the University of Chicago...

Eric Heinze, Queen Mary, University of London School of Law , has posted two papers on Shakespeare, law and literature. The first, Power P...

More from Anders Walker, Saint Louis University School of Law . 'Neutral Principles': Herbert Wechsler, Legal Process, and Civil Ri...

Robert W. Gordon, the Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and Legal History at Yale Law School and a past president of the American Society f...

Mark Graber, University of Maryland School of Law , has posted James Buchanan as Savior? Judicial Power, Political Fragmentation, and the Fa...

Like most readers of the Legal History Blog, my graduate school training focused almost exclusively on the history of the United States. And...

American Oresteia: Herbert Wechsler, the Model Penal Code, and the Uses of Revenge is a new paper by Anders Walker, Saint Louis University ...

Reva Siegel, Yale Law School , has posted Heller & Originalism's Dead Hand - In Theory and in Practice. Here is the abstract: This...

HLS in Focus: The Official JD Admissions Blog at Harvard Law School , has a post on a joint session by Steven Teles and Mark Tushnet on (w...

W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, announces that this year's Nathan I. Huggins ...

Hot off the (electronic) presses! Just posted today on the website of the Law and History Review is a lively exchange between Kenneth W. Mac...

Ladies in Red: Learning from America's First Female Bankrupts is an article by Karen Gross, New York Law School , Marie Stefanini Newma...

Deciding Not to Decide: Nuremberg and the Ambiguous History of the Tu Quoque Defense is an article by Nicole A. Heise . Based on archival ...

The Presidency, the Electoral College, and the Three-Fifths Clause is a new paper by Earl M. Maltz, Rutgers School of Law-Camden . Here...

The Criminal Justice Principles of Charles Hamilton Houston: Lessons in Innovation has just been posted by José F. Anderson, University of B...

Jailing a Rainbow: Death by Narrative and the Marcus Garvey Case is a new paper by Justin Hansford, Georgetown University Law Center Class...

The Common Law of Colonial America: Volume I: The Chesapeake and New England 1607-1660 by William E. Nelson is reviewed by George W. Lieb...

Michael Stein, William and Mary Law School , has posted the paper Victorian Tort Liability for Workplace Injuries, which appeared in the Un...

Nationalizing the Bill of Rights: Scholarship and Commentary on the Fourteenth Amendment in 1867-73 is a new article by Bryan H. Wildenthal...

Comparative law scholar John C. Reitz, University of Iowa College of Law , has a new article that draws upon a broad range of sources on the...

Applications are up at some law schools this year, in spite of law firm layoffs, although flat elsewhere , and many law schools, like othe...

The Neglected History of the Prior Restraint Doctrine: Rediscovering the Link between the First Amendment and the Separation of Powers has ...

Yesterday afternoon, at the American Political History Seminar sponsored by the History Department at Boston University, Brian Balogh of ...