Legal History Blog

To understand law and security in the post-9/11 years, historians will need to move beyond broad questions of the impact of war and security...

Anders Walker at St. Louis University is organizing an interesting conference.  While conferences like this are usually organized by solici...

The Policy History Conference has issued a call for papers: The Institute for Political History and the Journal of Policy History, and ...

Stephen M. Griffin , Tulane University Law School, has posted an important new paper, Reconceiving the War Powers Debate .   He brings basic...

[Our friends at Indiana-Bloomington Law have sent us the following announcement:] The Indiana University Center for Law, Society, and Cult...

Legal Scholarship Blog reports that in the week just past Erika Lee , Minnesota History, presented “ Wong Kim Ark v. U.S ., Birthright Citi...

Over at the Nation , Martha Nussbaum reviews Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India (Knopf), by Joseph Lelyveld . Here...

There are many interesting upcoming symposia!  The Center for the Study of the American South is holding this terrific conference.  Legal hi...

Theresa Ventura , the "Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellow" at the Library of Congress’s K...

H-Law has circulated three new book reviews, covering judicial independence, forensic medicine, and the philosophy of John Rawls: John Ph...

After a month’s delay due to Hurricane Irene, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be dedicated on October 16th. As the new date approa...

A History of the Laws of War: Volume 2: The Customs and Laws of War with Regards to Civilians in Times of Conflict , and A History of the L...

My Georgetown colleague Joseph A. McCartin has published his much-anticipated history of the PATCO strike, Collision Course: Ronald Reagan,...

H-Law has posted several book reviews of interest over the past few weeks: Cathleen D. Cahill , Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social Hist...

Of possible interest, my lecture today at Case Western on my forthcoming book will be webcast at 4:30 pm Eastern time.  Follow the link fro...

[We have the following announcement via Legal Scholarship Blog .] The Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis will host a Junior F...

Ralph Bunche: Distinguished Scholar, International Statesman and Equal Rights Activist, has just been posted by Charles Harmon Oates , Rege...

With the protests on Wall Street continuing, historians are being called on to provide perspective on the development and related matters. G...

Steven A. Bank , University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, has posted the introduction to his new book , Anglo-American Corporat...

A few opportunities for Bay Area readers: On Monday, October 10, the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of Californ...

You've doubtless seen the September 1957 photo : "Elizabeth [Eckford], a sheltered, scholarly teenager in a homemade dress, walks...

Jerry Genesio , an independent scholar, has published Portland Neck: The Hanging of Thomas Bird , a study of the trial and, on June 25, 17...

Via the Newsletter of the DC Circuit Historical Society we have word of a fascinating program of the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rig...

Note to readers : This is the last in a series of questions and answers with Lawrence Friedman . Question:   When did you begin writing n...

Patryk I. Labuda , a doctoral candidate in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia, has posted Racial Reconciliatio...

Professor Derrick Bell, Visiting Professor at New York University , has passed. Bell's legacy in the law is long and deep. Bell never t...

The 2012 International Conference on Law and Society and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL) announces its call for participat...

[Here's the call for next year's conference on rights at San Francisco State University.] San Francisco State University hosts a c...