Legal History Blog

If you happen to be in Leicester, hope to see you later today . (The paper for my lecture is here .) Otherwise, apologies, dear reader. I...

Ernest Metzger, University of Glasgow School of Law , has posted Adam Smith's Historical Jurisprudence and the 'Method of the Civili...

Jacqueline Lipton started a discussion at the Faculty Lounge about summer writing strategies. I offered a couple of suggestions, and thoug...

Mark Levin, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai'i at Ma-noa , has posted Continuities of Legal Consciousness: Profe...

[I'm moving up this post, which originally appeared in January 2009, because an updated version of Professor Robinette' s article, f...

I'm sorry to report the death of legal historian Thomas G. Barnes of t he University of California, Berkeley. The author or editor of e...

The deadline is Monday, March 15 , for submissions for the annual conference on rights in history, politics, and society, at San Francisco S...

The Freedom to Strike in Canada: A Brief Legal History has just been posted by Eric Tucker, Your University, Osgoode Hall Law School, and J...

COLD WAR CULTURES Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives Conference at the University of Texas at Austin September 30 - October 3,...

Check out Chronicling America , the Library of Congress's on-line collection of historic American newspapers. According to the Library:...

Relocation Revisited: Sex Trafficking of Native Women in the United States has just been posted by Sarah Deer , William Mitchell College o...

Originalists take heed! My colleague Louis Michael Seidman, Georgetown University Law Center , has posted Our Unsettled Ninth Amendment: An...

Michael Stein, William and Mary Law School , has posted Jacobus tenBroek, Participatory Justice, and the UN Convention on the Rights of Pers...

[We have the following press release heralding Mary Dudziak's delivery of an annual lecture at the University of Leicester. The event i...

Immigration as Invasion: Sovereignty, Security, and the Origins of the Federal Immigration Power has been posted by Matthew J. Lindsay , U...

Kathryn Kish Sklar, SUNY Binghamton, and Beverly Wilson Palmer, Pomona College, present their edition of The Selected Letters of Florence Ke...

On-line registration is now open for the Second Biennial Literature and Law Conference at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, to be h...

The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London, and the Lo...

[I'm moving up this post from January to note that the University of Chicago Law Faculty Blog has recently posted a lengthy account , by...

Habeas Corpus: From England to Empire by Paul D. Halliday is reviewed by Adrian Vermeule for the New Republic . Vermeule writes: After th...

The Center for Law, Philosophy and Culture of the Catholic University of America announces the symposium, The Nature of Judicial Duty: A Re...

A press release of the Harvard Law School announces the receipt of the Irving Oberman Memorial Prize by Jonathan Bressler (2010) for his pap...

The Johnson-Jeffries Fight and Censorship of Black Supremacy has just been posted by Barak Y. Orbach , University of Arizona. Here's t...

Elizabeth F. Judge , University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, has posted the abstract for Kidnapped and Counterfeit Characters: Eighteenth-Centu...

We've previously posted an announcement for "Law as ," a legal history conference at the University of Irvine. Christopher To...

The Transatlantic Divergence in Legal Thought: American Law and Economics vs. German Doctrinalism has just been posted by Kristoffel R. Gre...

Sentimental Frauds is a new article by Simon Stern , Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. It is forthcoming in Law and Social Inquiry ....

Natural Law and the Rhetoric of Empire: Reynolds v. United States, Polygamy, and Imperialism has just been posted by Nathan B. Oman , Willi...

The Reconstruction Power is a new paper by Jack M. Balkin , Yale Law School. Here's the abstract: This essay argues that modern doctr...

The Privileges or Immunities Clause of the 14th Amendment is in the news today, with the Supreme Court hearing arguments in McDonald v. City...

On Tuesday, February 23, Henry Ansgar Kelly , Emerit Distinguished Professor, Department of English, University of California at Los Angeles...

Robert G. Natelson, University of Montana, has posted The Original Meaning of the Constitution's "Executive Vesting Clause"--...

Federalists, Federalism, and Federal Jurisdiction has just been posted by Alison L. LaCroix , University of Chicago Law School. Here's...

We have the following from the "ECU Notes " section of the Greenville (N.C.) Daily Reflector : One of the nation’s leading constit...

The Citizen's Constitution by Seth Lipsky , and The Annotated U.S. Constitutio n and Declaration of Independence by Jack Rakove are re...

Matthew L. M. Fletcher, Michigan State University College of Law , has posted “Occupancy” and “Settlement”: Anishinaabemowin and the Interpr...

Legal Historian Annette Gordon-Reed , author of The Hemingses of Monticello and other works, was awarded a National Humanities Medal at the ...

In case you missed it, Anders Walker 's new book, The Ghost of Jim Crow , has been the focus of a book discussion at PrawfsBlawg . Cont...