Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Ahonen reviews Bessel & Haake, "Removing Peoples"

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Over at H-Net, you can find a review of Removing Peoples: Forced Removal in the Modern World (London: Oxford University Press, 2009), edite...

Short on the Paranoid Style in Regulatory Reform

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My Georgetown Law colleague Jodi L. Short has posted The Paranoid Style in Regulatory Reform . Here is the abstract: The U.S. administrat...
Monday, January 17, 2011

Brown-Nagin, Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement

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2011 promises to be a blockbuster year in legal history-related books.  Published just this month is Tomiko Brown-Nagin 's important new...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

War, Politics, Passports, and Haiti in the Book Reviews

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THE LONGEST WAR:  The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al-Qaeda by Peter L. Bergen is "a history of our time," writes Thoma...
Saturday, January 15, 2011

Kay Mills has died

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Kay Mills Journalist and biographer Kay Mills , 69, died of a heart attack this week in Santa Monica, California.  Mills will be best kn...

Weekend Roundup

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AHA Today has an extensive round-up of blog coverage of the American Historical Association meeting. History News Network 's coverage i...

Masur on Reconstuction-Era Washington at the Wilson Center

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The United States Studies Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars has announced a book discussion on An Example for ...
Friday, January 14, 2011

Lepore on the Constitution and Its Worshippers

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The most recent issue of the New Yorker features an essay by Jill Lepore (Harvard University) on " The Constitution and Its Worshipp...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

West on Tom Paine's Constitution

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Tom Paine's Constitution has just been posted by Robin L. West , Georgetown University Law Center.  It appeared in the Virginia Law R...

Tushnet on Harry Kalven and Kenneth Karst

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Mark Tushnet, Harvard Law School, has posted a new essay, Harry Kalven and Kenneth Karst in the Supreme Court Review: Reflections after Fif...

Maxwell reviews Schmidtz & Brennan, A Brief History of Liberty

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The Law & Politics Book Review has posted a review of A Brief History of Liberty (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2010), by D...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

The Haiti Legal Patrimony Project

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The Law Library Microform Consortium has undertaken a project to help rebuild Haiti’s law libraries after the devastating earthquake that hi...

Dubber on The Legality Principle in American and German Criminal Law

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The Legality Principle in American and German Criminal Law: An Essay in Comparative Legal History has just been posted by Markus D. Dubber, ...

In Memoriam: A.W. Brian Simpson (1933-2011)

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The University of Michigan Law School's website is reporting the death of the great English legal historian Alfred William Brian Simpso...

A New Essay Collection on the Thirteenth Amendment

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Here's a book announcement for a new collection of essays, The Promises of Liberty: The History and Contemporary Relevance of the Thirte...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Cott on the History of Marriage Laws

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Nancy Cott has an article, “No Objections: What History Tells Us About Gay Marriage,” on the history of marriage laws in the latest issue of...

Westbrook reviews Rodgers, "The Age of Fracture"

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Earlier Dan posted this announcement, about an upcoming (January 12) Book Discussion on The Age of Fracture (Harvard University Press, 201...
Monday, January 10, 2011

Texas History Department Launches "Not Even Past"

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[Via H-Law , we have the following announcement of the University of Texas History Department virtual bridge to a public interested in thing...

Price on Federalization of the Mosquito: Structural Innovation in the New Deal Administrative State

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Federalization of the Mosquito: Structural Innovation in the New Deal Administrative State has just been posted by Polly J. Price , Emory U...

The Challenges of International Legal History: Reflections from the AHA

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Legal historians had a range of interesting panels to choose from at the AHA conference in Boston this past weekend. I attended several ...

Tomlins on the Lessons of History

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The December 2010 issue of Perspectives on History (the monthly newsmagazine of the AHA) is now open to non-subscribers. As usual, it inc...
Sunday, January 9, 2011

Reviewed: Chemerinskly, The Conservative Assault on the Constitution

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Erwin Chemerinsky , constitutional scholar and Dean of the new law school at U.C. Irvine has a new book on Supreme Court history:  The Conse...
Saturday, January 8, 2011

Weekend Roundup

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The Historical Society has put together a post on the state of the history job market ("bleak," again). Lots of good links to ...

Law & Society at German Studies

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[Here's a Call for Papers for the 2011 annual meeting of the German Studies Association.] For the 2011 German Studies Association meet...
Friday, January 7, 2011

Havens reviews Pole on Representation and the Jury in Anglo-American Legal History

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The Law & Politics Book Review has posted a review of Contract and Consent: Representation and the Jury in Anglo-American Legal Histor...

Kadens on Bankruptcy Fraud in 18th-Century England

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Emily Kadens, University of Texas School of Law , has posted The Pitkin Affair: A Study of Fraud in Early English Bankruptcy , which was pub...
Thursday, January 6, 2011

Kolsky and Giunchi on Law in Colonial India

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The current issue of the Journal of Asian Studies contains two articles on law in colonial India. The titles and abstracts follow: Eliza...

More on Lynching: Campney reviews Harper, "White Man's Heaven"

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Coming on the heels of Clara's thoughtful post on the Bald Knobbers and new work on the history of lynching in America , we have this re...

Kenneth Jackson to Inaugurate Hands Lecture

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Kenneth T. Jackson , the Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences and Director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for Americ...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Rogers on the Black Campus Moverment at the Library of Congress

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Ibram Rogers, a Jameson Fellow at the Library of Congress, will deliver the lecture “The Black Campus Movement and the Racial Reformation of...