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[I've added the citations to this post and so am moving it up.] This year’s cowinners of the Law and Society’s Association’s James Wil...

The Chronicle of Higher Ed always keeps it real. This week Brainstorm blogger Gina Barreca (University of Connecticut) tells graduate stude...

The “New Books in History” interview with Paul Friedland concerning his Seeing Justice Done: The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in F...

Volume 52, Issue 3, of the American Journal of Legal History (July 2012) is or will soon be in the mail.  Here is the table of contents: ...

The big one this week is Eric Foner 's review, for the Nation , of  More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Repub...

James R. Hackney, Jr., Northeastern Law , has put up an SSRN post heralding the publication next month of Legal Intellectuals in Conversat...

Samuel Moyn , a Professor of History at Columbia University and the author of The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (Harvard, 2010), de...

Gregory E. Maggs, George Washington University Law School , has posted an article on SSRN originally published in 2009 as A Concise Guide t...

One of the biggest changes I noticed when I moved from Philadelphia to Berkeley last year was the legal relationship between drivers and ped...

We have the following word that the video of Madness or Badness: Duran and the Evolution of the Insanity Defense in the D.C. Circuit , a d...

Over at the Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit, there is a post (dated June 29) on an interesting exchange between the ...

"On Friday, July 13, 2012 at 2pm at the Manchester Court House," announces a press release , "the Vermont Judicial History S...

This past weekend, I engaged in my annual Independence Day ritual of rewatching 1776 .  For those  unfamiliar with the film, it is an ada...

Here's another new one from the Law & Politics Book Review : Greg Marquis (University of New Brunswick Saint John) reviews FREEDOM...

The Historical Society of the D.C. Circuit has posted, here , a transcript of a session on the importance of preserving judicial papers that...

Al Brophy (UNC) asked this question yesterday, over at the Faculty Lounge ( here ), and offered some preliminary thoughts. The idea of ...

The Upside-Down Constitution (Harvard University Press), by Michael S. Greve , is the subject of an entertaining new review in the Law ...

Writing for JOTWELL, Alison Tirres (DePaul University) has reviewed The Color of America Has Changed: How Racial Diversity Shaped Civil R...

Credit Simon Stern, University of Toronto Law, University of Toronto, has posted Speech and Property in David Simple , which is forthco...

Philip Girard, Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law , has recently posted Who's Afraid of Canadian Legal History? an article tha...

Apparently the growing swell of campaign coverage has historians thinking about politics and history. Hot on the heels of William Forbath...

Stepping into the discussion of Michael Lind’s Land of Promise: An Economic History of theUnited States (Harper) (it was reviewed once ...

“ Challenging Punishment: The War on Drugs, Race, and Public Health ” is the subject of a Call for Papers from Donna Murch (Rutgers Univer...

Recently published by Cambridge University Press is Making Legal History: Approaches and Methodologies, edited by Anthony Musson and Chanta...

image credit Continuing our coverage of historians' responses to the Supreme Court's Affordable Care Act decision (and related ...

Carolyn B. Ramsey, University of Colorado Law School, has posted A Diva Defends Herself: Gender and Domestic Violence in an Early Twentieth...

The July 2012 issue of History , the journal of the Historical Association, is out. Book reviews of interest include: Levi Roach on ...

Stephen M. Griffin, Tulane University Law School, has posted A Bibliography of Executive Branch War Powers Opinions Since 1950 .  Here is t...

Mary Ziegler, St. Louis University School of Law , has posted Grassroots Originalism: Rethinking the Politics of Judicial Philosophy , which...

Brannon's Defense Team at IMTFE In an earlier post , Karen Tani referred to the Georgetown University Law Center’s posting of some ...

Continuing our coverage of latest issues of the American Historical Review -- In the April 2012 issue, you'll find an article by Ali...

image credit The latest issues of the American Historical Review contain material worth spotlighting here (full content is for subscrib...

[Bumping to the top to call attention to a few updates - KMT] I'd be happy to post and update a roundup of other legal and constitutio...

I'm excited to join the conversation on Legal History Blog this month.  In particular, I hope to offer a grad student perspective in som...