Legal History Blog

Charles L. Barzun, University of Virginia School of Law , has posted Jerome Frank and the Modern Mind . Here’s the abstract: Jerome Frank ...

Mark Hulliung , The Social Contract in America: From the Revolution to the Present Age (University Press of Kansas, 2007) is reviewed for H...

If you are a member of the American Society for Legal History, it's time to vote! Balloting is open from now through September 30. Bruce...

Over at Et Seq., the Harvard Law Library Blog, David Warrington has posted excerpts from a letter written by the New Deal lawyer Telford Ta...

On Friday, September 25, 2009 American University Washington College of Law and the Institute for Constitutional History will host a roundta...

The Financial Determinants of Corporate Governance by Dalia Tsuk Mitchell and Lawrence E. Mitchell , both of George Washington University ...

As the term here in Akureyri begins get into full swing, I want to take the occasion of this final post to talk a bit about the Fulbright Pr...

Jane Dailey , Department of History, University of Chicago, kicks off the American Bar Foundation/Illinois Legal History Seminar for Fall 2...

Over at PropertyProf Blog, Tanya Marsh , an adjunct at Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis, has an interesting post on conducti...

Selected Conceptions of Federalism: The Selective Use of History in the Supreme Court's States' Rights Opinions has just been poste...

In this weekend's book pages, Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification , by David Waldstreicher is reviewed in the Boston...

There is a great temporary exhibit showing at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Lower Manhattan from now until January. " Beyond Swas...

I've posted Lawyers, Bureaucratic Autonomy, and Securities Regulation during the New Deal as a working paper on "The Scholarly Com...

Eighth anniversaries are a bit awkwa rd. Across the nation, Americans did not stop in their tracks today, as they did seven years ago, at th...

Vinculum Fidei: The Tempest and the Law of Allegiance is a new article by Elliott Visconsi, Yale Department of English & Yale Law Schoo...

It occurred to me recently that an old and not widely circulated article of mine, "In Short He is a Stupid Man": The Judges and th...

Portraits of Resistance: Lawyer Responses to Unjust Proceedings is a new article by Alexandra D. Lahav , University of Connecticut School o...

Catharine P. Wells, Boston College Law School (although on leave at USC Law this semester) has posted the working paper Langdell and the I...

We've previously noted that Ariela Gross, USC Law , received the James Willard Hurst Prize of the Law and Society Association for What B...

Harold J. Krent, Chicago-Kent College of Law , has posted The Sometimes Unitary Executive: Presidential Practice Throughout History , a revi...

Lawrence Glickman, University of South Carolina , the author of Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America , has posted a histo...

The Court of Admiralty of Ireland, 1745-1756 is a new article by Kevin Costello, University College Dublin School of Law . It is forthcomi...

Justice in Many Rooms Since Galanter: De-Romanticizing Legal Pluralism Through the Cultural Defense has recently been posted by Mitra J Sha...

The Civil Rights Roots of Tinker’s Disruption Tests is a new article by Kristi L . Bowman, Michigan State University College of Law . It ap...

In the fall of 2009, the Boston College Law School Legal History Roundtable star ted its eighth successful year. The Roundtable draws on Bo...

The University of Southern California's Center for Law, History and Culture has posted a Calendar of Events for the academic year ahea...

A newsletter from the good folks at the Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony Papers Project at Rutgers University reminded me that...

For this Sunday's book review round-up, I am borrowing from uber-history-blogger Ralph Luker . Here are recent reviews of interest in th...

Nathan B. Oman, William & Mary Law School , draws upon Thirteenth Amendment history in his new article, Specific Performance and the Thi...

M. C. Mirow, Florida International University College of Law, has posted Coke's Advice on Executing Wills of Land , which also appears ...

Helen J. Knowles, SUNY at Oswego , has posted "The Pen is Mightier than the Sword": Lysander Spooner’s Constitutional Response to ...

From Laura Edwards , discussing work on her new book, The People and The ir Peace . Laura's first post is here . Questioning Organizatio...