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The Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society announces its 29th annual conference, Owning the Past: Whose Past? Whose Present? ...

The University of Pennsylvania Press has a book series: Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism . Rogers M. Smith, Browne Distinguis...

Readers of the Blog may be interested in the following announcement of a new website: An online database which promises to change our under...

Hobbes, Holmes, and Dewey: Pragmatism and the Problem of Order has just been posted by Frederic R. Kellogg , The George Washington Universi...

I enjoy listening to other legal historians present their scholarship in progress. But I must confess that I find some presentations diffic...

Diane Marie Amann, University of California, Davis School of Law, has posted Portraits of Women at Nuremberg . Here is the abstract: This e...

Keeping Faith with the Constitution , by Goodwin Liu , Pamela S. Karlan , and Christopher H. Schroeder , and The Living Constitution by Dav...

New York Magazine’s website reports: "Multiple sources are reporting that historian, writer, and academic Tony Judt has died after a l...

An interesting set of book reviews over the past few weeks has appeared on H-Law: Henk F. K. van Nierop, Treason in the Northern Quarter: Wa...

The Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society has just posted online a diary kept by Norman Poser, an SEC commissioner, during...

Readers of this Blog will be well aware of a potential danger in doing interdisciplinary scholarship: namely, not being fully versed in each...

Shadi Mokhtari , After Abu Ghraib: Exploring Human Rights in America and the Middle East (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2009) is re...

Here's your chance to help improve one of my books. Princeton University Press is publis hing a new edition of Cold War Civil Rights ...

Judicial Biases in the Ottoman Empire: The Roles of Inter-Court Competition and Personal Exchange has just been posted by Timur Kuran and S...

In Brown's Wake: Legacies of America's Educational Landmark by Dean Martha Minow , Harvard Law School, has just been published by ...

Race, Sex, and Rulemaking: Administrative Constitutionalism and the Workplace, 1960 to the Present is a new article by Sophia Z. Lee , Univ...

History News Network is accepting applications for internships. It is an unpaid position, but academic credit is sometimes possible. Deta...

Blog readers may be interested to know of a new website managed by the National Archives in the United Kingdom: http://www.legislation.gov....

Rationality, Pirates, and the Law: A Retrospective is a new paper by Peter T. Leeson , George Mason University - Department of Economics. ...

Steven G. Medema, Department of Economics, University of Colorado Denver , has posted A Case of Mistaken Identity: George Stigler, 'The ...

Many thanks to Mary and Dan for inviting me. I'm a regular reader of the Legal History Blog and am delighted to be a guest blogger. I...

“‘The goal of a liberal arts education is not to make money. Education is not a ‘tool of the gross national product,’” Martha C. Nussbaum ar...

The Legal History Blog welcomes Thomas P. Gallanis , N. William Hines Professor of La w and Professor of History at the University of Iowa, ...

The Legal History Blog thanks Ariela Gross , USC Law School, and Steve Vladeck , Washington College of Law, American University, our guests ...

In my last post on Paul Halliday's new history of habeas in pre-revolutionary England, I thought I'd end at the beginning. In INS ...

Time is running short on my guest-blogging stint (thanks again to Mary for the invite), so I thought I'd jump ahead to the last two key ...

The American Academy in Berlin invites applications for its residential fellowships for the 2011–2012 as well as future academic years. Th...

Peggy Ann Pascoe (obituary from mtstandard.com ) Peggy Ann Pascoe, 55, of Eugen...

Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Legal Activism and Ecclesiastical Courts in Colonial Lima, 1593-1689 has just been posted by Michelle McKinle...

Just posted on the Gilder Lehrman website is the lecture Reconstruction and Citizenship , originally delivered on June 12, 2007, by Eric F...

Are conservatives racist? A number of political writers have complained recently that conservatives are being unfairly painted as racist be...

We do not seem to have previously noted the existence of this on-line project of the Harvard Law School Library . As the website explains: ...

Is Tax Law Culturally Specific? Lessons from the History of Income Tax Law in Mandatory Palestine has just been posted by Assaf Likhovski ...

Legal Formalism and Legal Realism: What is the Issue? , a review of Brian Tamanaha , BEYOND THE FORMALIST-REALIST DIVIDE , has just been po...

REVOLUTIONARIES: A New History of the Invention of America by Jack Rakove is reviewed this weekend in the New York Times . Virginia DeJo...