Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Wolfinger on "A Tale of Two Levittowns: Race and Housing in Suburban Philadelphia"

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Over at the UNC Press Blog, James Wolfinger (DePaul University) has posted a short essay titled " A Tale of Two Levittowns: Race and H...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Schmitt and Post-9/11 Legal Thought

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This is the second post in a short series on post-9/11 legal thought . One of the more curious turns in post-9/11 legal scholarship was t...

CFP: "Private Law, Public Lives"

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Via H-Law, we have the following call for papers: CFP: Law and History Conference: “Private Law, Public Lives”, Brisbane Australia The 30th ...

Hadden revews Hall, Huebner, eds., "Major Problems in American Constitutional History"

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H-Law has posted a review , by Sally Hadden (Florida State University, Department of History), of the second edition of Major Problems in ...
Monday, February 21, 2011

Roger Wilkins interviewed on NPR

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As part of the commemoration of Black History Month, NPR's Michel Martin recorded a short interview with renowned lawyer, civil rights ...

"Say Something Historical!"

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The plenary session of the 2011 annual meeting of the American Historical Association, held in Boston last month, featured a panel on “His...

OAH Election Results

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The Organization of American Historians has announced its election results . They are: President Alice Kessler-Harris, R. Gordon Hoxie ...

Parker on Historicizing Blackstone

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Kunal M. Parker, University of Miami School of Law, has posted Historicizing Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England Difference a...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

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"Amid both the gloom of the season and the recent uprisings in the Arab world, it is bracing to look back at the last thirty years or s...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

Weekend Round-up

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How should writers respond to criticism ? Can "extreme negative reviews" be, in author Tao Lin's words, "helpful," ...
Friday, February 18, 2011

American Journal of Legal History has a new website

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The American Journal of Legal History (published by Temple University Beasley School of Law) has announced that it now has a website . Here...

Maveal on The First Generation of the Detriot Legal Aid Bureau

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The First Generation of the Detroit Legal Aid Bureau is an article by Gary Maveal , University of Detroit Mercy School of Law.  It appeared...

Robinson on Japanese Confinement in North America

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Columbia University Press has posted an excerpt of Greg Robinson , A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America (2009). It...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Sundby reviews Davies, Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America

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The Conundrum of Zealous Representation is a review essay by Scott E. Sundby , Washington and Lee University School of Law.  It appears in ...

"Wartime" becomes "Crisis Time" in post-9/11 Legal Thought

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With the tenth anniversary of September 11 coming up this year, we are sure to see efforts to take account of the past decade.  There will...

Sharfstein, The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White

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The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White by Daniel J. Sharfstein is released today by Pengui...

Bernstein Reviews Maier, Ratification

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Our friends at H-Law have posted a review of Pauline Maier , Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 (Simon & Schu...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Cavanagh on Sovereignty, Subjects, and the Hudson's Bay Company, 1670-1763

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A Company with Sovereignty and Subjects of its Own? The Case of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1670-1763 is a new article by Edward Cavanagh,...

Inaugural James and Mary Lassiter Conference: Structural Racism in the U.S.

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On February 25, 2011, the University of Kentucky College of Law will host the Inaugural James and Mary Lassiter Conference. The topic is St...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Babcock, Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz

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Barbara Babcock's long awaited book, Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz has just been published by Stanford University Press.  A ...