Legal History Blog

Law & History Review 's Feb. 2012 issue contains a number of interesting articles and book reviews.  Abstracts of articles that ma...

Keith E. Whittington, Princeton University, Politics , and Amanda Rinderle, have posted Making a Mountain Out of a Molehill? Marbury and the...

Dr. Kenneth B. Clark is in the spotlight this week on the Columbia Center for Oral History website : Dr. Clark’s groundbreaking studies ...

The Law & Politics Book Review has released a new batch of reviews: Christopher Malone (Pace University) reviews THE DAWN OF DESEGREG...

Race and Partisanship in Criminal Disfranchisement Laws: Antecedents of the 2000 Election Controversy in Florida has been posted on SSRN by...

Kellam Conover , a J.D. candidate at Stanford Law School (with a Ph.D. in Classics from Princeton), has posted Thinking Through Political Co...

The SEC Historical Society’s on-line archive is now almost a decade old but remains underutilized by scholars.   Its collection includes ...

This week, don't miss the New York Times review of Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 (Crown Forum), by Charles Murr...

In case you missed the links on H-Law, a review of David Bernstein's Rehabilitating Lochner by the Federal Judicial Center's Danie...

This past week on the Facebook page we highlighted American legal thought with links to sources and reading including Dan Ernst on Roscoe Po...

This week’s mail brought a paperback copy of the latest book by Andrew Fede , Roadblocks to Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in the United S...

The American Journal of Legal History is looking for a web editor.  Here is the announcement: The American Journal of Legal History has an...

Anders Walker, Saint Louis University School of Law, has posted Theatres of Procedure , a revisionist account of the exclusionary rule in t...

On Monday, February 13, 2012 at 9p.m. EST, PBS will debut a documentary film, directed by Sam Pollard and based on David Blackmon's Pu...

As legal historians, and simply as human beings, one contribution we try to make is to nurture the next generation.  We do that as teachers,...

Barry Cushman, Virginia Law , has posted The Limits of the New Deal Analogy .  Here is the abstract: The past three years of the Obama Adm...

Historical Gloss and the Separation of Powers has just been posted by Curtis A. Bradley , Duke University - School of Law, and Trevor W. Mo...

China and the Human has just been posted by David L Eng , University of Pennsylvania - Department of English; Teemu Ruskola , Emory Universi...

Today marks the first in a series of seminars sponsored by the Center for the United States and the Cold War of the Tamiment Library at NYU...

Writing for the Jotwell legal history section, Angela Fernandez (University of Toronto) has reviewed Samuel Moyn , From Antiwar Politics t...

Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation , by Rebecca J. Scott and Jean M. Hébrard (University of Michigan, both),...

Courtesy of UVA Law in American History: Volume One  by G. Edward (Ted) White has been published by Oxford University Press.   The publ...

[Here's a call for papers for what appears to be a particularly well-crafted annual meeting of Antipodean legal historians, to be held a...

Elaine Forman Crane's Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores: Common Law and Common Folk in Early America (Cornell Press) is the subject o...

This is the second in a series of posts about my new book, War·Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences , kicked off when Eric Posner so...

Late last year, Paul Lukas from Slate released a series of articles chronicling his discovery of old report cards from a girl’strade school...

Bruce Ziff, Alberta Law, has posted The Great Onyx Cave Cases -- a Micro-History .  Here is the abstract:: Credit Controversies surro...

Donald E., Jr. Wilkes, University of Georgia Law School , has posted From Oglethorpe to the Overthrow of the Confederacy: Habeas Corpus in G...

Assaf Likhovski, Tel Aviv University School of Law , has posted Chasing Ghosts: On Writing Cultural Histories of Tax Law , which is forthcom...

Gerald J. Postema , University of North Carolina - Philosophy and Law, has posted  Analytic Jurisprudence Established , a chapter i...

Readers interested in the history of poverty law and lawyering may wish to take note of this upcoming conference at the University of Calif...

The American Council for Learned Societies, the Smithsonian, and the Gilder Lehrman Center all announce 2012 fellowship competitions.  Find ...

Library of Congress Marc Linder, University of Iowa College of Law , has published as a free ebook a massively researched history of cig...

Eric Posner has spent much of the last decade criticizing the liberal legal response to post-9/11 government policies. In his review of m...