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A webpage noting that Samuel David Robinson has won the William and Mary Law School's William Hamilton Prize, awarded to "the stud...

image sourc THE EICHMANN TRIAL AT 50 A two-day international symposium to discuss one of the most important trials of the 20th Century ...

An anonymous commenter writes: The company towns example raises a concern I have about an economic approach being applied too readily. The ...

Back in February, Mary noted Steven Lubet 's article on the Oberlin slave rescue. We now have a review , courtesy of H-Law, of the boo...

"Our Unsettled Ninth Amendment: An Essay on Unenumerated Rights and the Impossibility of Textualism," by Michael Seidman (Georgeto...

Over at the Faculty Lounge, Al Brophy has posted a reminder about Cambridge's release of the " Lawrence Friedman Festchrift ,...

As I mentioned in my previous post , I’m trying to come up with ways to smake my comparative constitutional history course something more th...

I’ve noticed over the years that many historians, including legal historians, are hostile to economics. Indeed, I’ve experienced this host...

Policing, Collective Action and Social Movement Theory: The Case of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Campaign has just been posted by Grah...

Below is the call for papers for the Preyer PrizePanel , at the American Society for Legal History Conference .  The panel features promisin...

Where is Asia? When is Asia? Theorizing Comparative Law and International Law has just been posted by Teemu Ruskola, Emory University Schoo...

Children of the Abyss: Permutations of Childhood in South Africa’s Child Justice Act has just been posted by James Maguire , Harvard Law Sc...

I've hesitated to blog about this subject, since I just went through the process of interviewing for entry-level law teaching jobs and I...

The nature of war is the subject of a number of book reviews during the past week. Newspaper reviews focus especially on one new book: TO EN...

For all those readers who research at the National Archives, heads up: NARA's tight procedures are about to get tighter . Read about it ...

As I suggested earlier , teaching comparative constitutional history has its own unique challenges. The good news is that everyone in the cl...

Garrett Power, University of Maryland School of Law , has posted Adoption of English Law in Maryland . Here is the abstract: It served as ...

The Rare Book School at the University of Virgini a is accepting applications for summer courses, including "Law Books: History & C...

Justices and Journalists: The U.S. Supreme Court and the Media (Cambridge University Press, Feb., 2011), by political scientist Richard Dav...

Dear readers, Blogger, our blog program, is normally very reliable.  It has had technical issues during the last couple of days.  This is ...

Treaties and the Constitution: Enforcing Treaties Against the States is a new article by David L. Sloss, Santa Clara University School of L...

"There is really only one group in American society that remains largely immune to the lure of originalism: historians." So writes...

Gregory Ablavsky , a J.D./Ph.D. candidate at Penn , has posted Making Indians "White": The Judicial Abolition of Native Slavery in...

To follow up on some points, questions, issues, etc raised in the comments to my last post . I think that by and large US Constitutional stu...

The Law & Politics Book Review has posted a review of Paul Kens , THE SUPREME COURT UNDER MORRISON R. WAITE, 1874-1888 (University of ...

Karen's link (below) to Ken Kersch's review of Paul Kens's new book gives me an excuse to plug Kersch's book, Constructing C...

Apropos of Scott Martelle, The Fear Within: Spies, Commies, and American Democracy on Trial , recently mentioned on this blog, I discussed t...

[ We have the following from our friends at Iowa Law .] The Program in Law and History at the University of Iowa is pleased to make availa...