Legal History Blog

Marriage and Mestizaje, Chinese and Mexican: Constitutional Interpretation and Resistance in Sonora, 1921-1935 is a new article by Kif Augu...

Michael Rossi and Christopher Capozzola , respectively, a graduate student and professor in MIT 's history department, have published D...

Over at the Jackson List, John Q. Barrett has posted a fine appreciation of David Ginsburg (1912-2010), whom Barrett describes as possibly ...

An American Tragedy: Retelling the Leopold-Loeb Story in Popular Culture has just been posted by Edward Larson, Pepperdine University Scho...

Recently posted on H-Law is a review by Vivien Miller, University of Nottingham of Glenn McNair’s Criminal Injustice: Slaves and Free Black...

The United States Studies Program, the History and Public Policy Program, and the Congress Project of the Woodrow Wilson Center have announc...

Westward Expansion, Preappointment Politics, and the Making of the Southern Slaveholding Supreme Court , is a new article by Justin Crowe , ...

Ajay K. Mehrotra, Indiana University-Bloomington Maurer School of Law , has posted The Public Control of Corporate Power: Revisiting the 190...

In my opening post last week, I noted that Paul Halliday’s new book on the history of habeas corpus in pre-revolutionary England disturbs ...

[Thanks to the European Society for Comparative Legal History, we have the following notice for the International School of Ius Commune, whi...

Duncan B. Hollis, Temple University School of Law, has posted Treaties in the Supreme Court, 1861-1900 , which appears in The U.S. Supreme ...

An important focus of some new transnational histories, enabling scholars to frame a narrative in a way that is less bounded by the history ...

Suja A. Thomas , University of Illinois College of Law, draws upon history to make a Seventh Amendment argument in An Unfamiliar Limitation ...

Al Brophy , my friend and recent guest blogger on this site, suggested that I post some thoughts about possible new directions f...

As I mentioned in my previous post, Felix Frankfurter urged his protege Charles Wyzanski to send a letter to the Boston Herald explaining wh...

WORKING KNOWLEDGE: EMPLOYEE INNOVATION AND THE RISE OF CORPORATE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, 1800-1930 , by Catherine L. Fisk is reviewed by Kar...

Here’s a call for historians of the legal profession, legal education, administrative law, judicial administration, and state courts in the ...

The blog world has been discussing the new Law Blog Rankings , which show the Legal History Blog moving up in the world, ranked now as 27th...

Common Law Ideology, Continental Regulatory Principles, and Precautionary Environmental Tools: Lessons from Victorian Britain has just been...

The current issue of PS: Political Science & Politics carries a Symposium: The Meaning and Legacy of the Magna Carta . From the Editor...

The blog of the 2010 annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries includes a post from Legal History & Rare Books sectio...

We've previously noted the appearance of T.P. Gallanis's "Death by Disaster: Anglo-American Presumptions, 1766-2006," in ...

Hi everyone! Let me just start with a big thank you to Mary for the invitation to guest-blog over here. Part of why I was so excited when M...

Herbert J. Hovenkamp , University of Iowa - College of Law, places an older paper in a new context while posting on SSRN Judicial Restraint ...

Mark Tushnet has an interesting post on how constitutional law changes, focusing especially on the 1930s and the "switch in time....

Basically, by replacing one set of Justices with another. But, when you look at examples of constitutional change in detail you see things ...

Stephanie Hunter McMahon, University of Cincinnati College of Law , continues her investigation of the history of taxation and community pr...

Pierre Schlag , University of Colorado Law School has just posted Critical Legal Studies , an essay published in The Oxford International En...

In today's New York Times, columnist Frank Rich reminds us that while all (wo)men are created equal, "slavery, America’s original s...

"The courts seldom if ever apply their check- the wisdom of the intricate rules touching their jurisdiction prevents it-while passion i...

Here's a cool new tool. Courtesy of the Newberry Library, you can now find the internal boundaries of all 50 states from 1629 to 2000 ...

The rather stunning advance reviews are out for Chris Tomlins ' new book, Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing E...