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Notes on the Origin of Intellectual Property: Revised Conclusions and New Sources is a new paper from Justin Hughes, Yeshiva University Ben...

Neil Duxbury, London School of Economics Law Department , has posted Lord Wright and Innovative Traditionalism . Here is the abstract: This ...

From David Warrington, Harvard Law School Library , we have the following: The Harvard Law School Library is very pleased to announce that t...

According to the Law Times : The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History has unveiled a group of recent award recipients. Mary Stokes ,...

The Majority Will: A Case Study of Misinformation, Manipulation, and th e Oregon Initiative Process is a new article by Paula L. Abrams, Le...

Originalist Roots of Substantive Due Process: Higher-Law Constitutionalism and the Fifth Amendment has been posted by Frederick Mark Gedick...

The Institute for Political History , a nonprofit foundation, is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications for the Hugh Davis Gr...

Administrative Statutory Interpretation in the Antebellum Republic is a new article by Jerry Louis Mashaw and Avi Perry, Yale Law School ....

Recently announced is the program and other information for the conference "The Question of Rights in U.S. Society," to be held Se...

Common Legalism: On the Common Law Origins of American Regulatory Culture is a new paper by Noga Morag-Levine, Michigan State University Co...

THE CONSERVATIVES: Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History by Patrick Allitt in the Boston Globe by former congressman Mickey ...

Inching cautiously into the 21st century... The Legal History Blog now feeds directly to twitter, so if you prefer to get your legal history...

While sifting through a few different collections of records this week, I wanted to be sure to track down a couple of sources mentioned in s...

David J. Seipp, Boston University School of Law, announces that his index and paraphrase of printed Year Book reports is now complete in th...

There was much serious correspondence between Justice Felix Frankfurter and President Franklin Roosevelt during the early 1940s. But their l...

While I'm traveling, here's a research note I recently rediscovered from my Fulbright in New Zealand over a decade ago. I still thi...

Jerry Louis Mashaw, Yale Law School , has posted Center and Periphery in Antebellum Federal Administration: the Multiple Faces of Popular Co...

Needing a break from another piece of my war project, I turned to archival research this week, and I stumbled upon an unlikely interchange. ...

The International Congress on Medieval Studies has issued a call for papers for the conference "Law as Culture: Lordship, Profit, and ...

The symposium issue of Theoretical Inquiries in Law , "Histories of Legal Transplantations," is now out. Western Legal Imperialism...

Jeremy J. Waldron, NYU Law School, has posted The Decline of Natural Right, which is forthcoming in The Cambridge History of Nineteenth Ce...

Champion of Civil Rights: Judge John Minor Wisdom by Joel William Friedman was reviewed for the Law and Politics Book Review by Brett W. ...

With Grit and by Grace: Breaking Trails in Law and Politics - A Memoir by Betty Roberts is reviewed for the Law and Politics Book Review ...

Just out from Oxford University Press is The Ghost of Jim Crow: How Southern Moderates Used Brown v. Board of Education to Stall Civil Righ...

Democracy and Political Knowledge in Ancient Athens is a short review ess ay just posted by Ilya Somin, George Mason University School of L...

Legal historian Mark Weiner , has been named the 2009-2010 Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Scholar at Rutgers University, Newark. The a...

THE SOUND OF FREEDOM: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America by Raymond Arsenault is reviewed in the ...

[This is the fourth and final installment in a series of posts on the case of Pierson v. Post . The series begins here .] The Appeal If one...

George C. Thomas, III, Rutgers-Newark Law School , has posted Newspapers and the Fourteenth Amendment: What Did the American Public Know Abo...

Jonathan Rose, Arizona State University Law School , has posted on SSRN several items from his "backlist": “Litigation and Politic...