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The New Republic has launched a new web enterprise: The Book . TNR Executive Editor Isaac Chotiner writes: Like every other magazine and ...

[Here is a call for papers for the conference "Crime and Punishment in Modern Europe, 1870-1990," to be held in Washington DC on ...

Over at the University of Chicago Law Faculty Blog, the veteran student blogger David Schraub has a summary of the presentation to Chicago...

Here's a call for papers for the conference "Insculpta Imago: Seal Matrices and Seal Impressions in the Mediterranean," to be...

Brian Balogh, Miller Center for Public Affairs and History Department, University of Virginia, will be discussing his new book A Government...

Traductions : Oliver W. Holmes Jr., "La passe étroite du droit" et "La Common Law" is featured in the November 2009 i...

The Indiana Historical Society Press has published, in its Indiana Supreme Court Legal History Series, Hoosier Justice at Nuremberg , by Suz...

Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School , Government Law Center, has just posted The Constitution, the Supreme Court, and History . It appeared i...

Yale historian George Chauncey , and Harvard's Nancy Cott testified this week in the California trial challenging that state's ban ...

"Louis Brandeis and Benjamin Cardozo: Judaism and the Crisis of the 1930s," a fascinating talk by Richard Polenberg, Marie Underh...

The University of Pennsylvania Press, with support from The Mellon Foundation, announces the launch of our new journal, Humanity: An Interna...

Marriage & Redemption: Mormon Polygamy in the Congressional Imagination, 1862-1887 is a recent article by Kelly Elizabeth Phipps in th...

Deadlines are coming up very soon for Law and Society Association workshops and awards. Full details are at the links: WORKSHOPS January...

History News Network has good coverage of the American Historians Association meeting last weekend. Highlights include video from the panel...

Simon Stern, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, has posted The Case and the Exceptions: Creating Instrumental Texts in Law and Literatu...

Eric Tucker, Osgoode Hall Law School , has posted Who’s Running the Road? Street Railway Strikes and the Problem of Constructing a Liberal C...

The latest issue of the newsletter of the Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit is out and, with it, news that a recording...

Readers of the blog will recall the dispatches of Mark S. Weiner, Rutgers-Newark Law , from his Fulbright in Iceland. Now comes news that R...

[We have the following Call for papers from the organizers of "AB INITIO: Law in Early America," a conference to be held June 16 ­...

Peter L. Lindseth, University of Connecticut School of Law, has posted Introduction: Reconciling Europe and the Nation-State , an excerpt f...

Call for Papers: Women & International Criminal Law Special Issue of the International Criminal Law Review Dedicated to Judge Patric...

Michael H. Hoeflich's Kansas State Historical Society Presidential Address for 2003, "Why the History of Kansas Law Has Not Been Wr...

[The Fayette (Georgia) Citizen reports, in Law History Class Offered for HS Students , on a local judge's offering of a constitutional ...

Robert B. Townsend at AHA Perspectives reports on the troubling job market for history Ph.D.s : The number of job openings in history plumm...

[We have the following announcement courtesy of H-US 1918-45 :] The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund re...

[Courtesy of H-Law , we have the following announcement for John Phillip Reid Book Award:] Named for John Phillip Reid, the prolific legal h...

Seth Barrett Tillman has posted Originalism, the Annals of Congress, and the Problem of Constitutional Memory . Here's the abstract: Th...

If you will be attending the Association of American Law Schools meeting in New Orleans this week or the American Historical Association mee...

You can now get your daily dose of legal history news and scholarship by going to the Legal History Blog page on Facebook. Click here to s...

Arthur H. Garrison, Garrison Consultants LLC, has posted The Internal Security Acts of 1798: The Founding Generation and the Judiciary Duri...

Readers in Illinois and thereabouts can find me on the air on Tuesday morning, Jan. 5, at 11 am Central time on Illinois Public Radio's ...

Imagining Insurance: Risk, Thrift and Life Insurance in Britain has just been posted by Pat O'Malley, University of Sydney - Facult...

Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Orin Kerr reports on a recent acquisition, an edition of the first volume of Hawkins's Crown Pleas , and...

"In Rebirth of a Nation , Jackson Lears treats as tragedy what Hofstadter viewed as farce," Christopher Benfey writes in a review ...