Legal History Blog

This week,  The New York Times  has reviews of two books critiquing the academy.  Hanna Rosin reviews Nathan Harden’s Sex and God at Yale:...

A belated welcome to the blogosphere to the Otttoman Law Blog , on which there is the following call for papers for a Congress of Turkish Le...

We earlier posted a notice of the new edition of Linda Greenhouse and Reva B. Siegel ’s documentary history, Before Roe v. Wade.   We h...

Via Biddleblog (the blog of the University of Pennsylvania Biddle Law Library), we've learned that " C-SPAN has made virtually t...

Over the past few years, we've seen a series of books on equality in America, most lamenting the fact that the United States has grown i...

Here’s the year’s lineup for the Connecticut Legal History & Culture Speaker Series, at the University of Connecticut School of Law: S...

My Georgetown Law colleague Laura Donohue , has posted The Limits of National Security , an account of national security across its four ep...

The Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley has posted the line-up for its fall speaker series. ...

We at Legal History Blog would be pleased to publish the schedules of any legal history workshop or colloquim.  Please write to the blog...

Here's a timely and important piece, just out in Law and Social Inquiry : Gautham Rao (American University), " Administering Entit...

A press release from the Harvard Law School announces that Annette Gordon-Reed has been appointed to the Charles Warren Professorship in ...

Karen's post prompts me to offer two pieces of advice that occur to me when I look back on my transition, almost thirty years ago, from...

I loved Josh's recent "top ten" list for history PhDs who are headed to law school. In response to his post, reader Emily ask...

Library of Congress Christopher P.M. Waters and Robert Nelson, University of Windsor , have posted The Allied Bombing of German Cities ...

Enjoyed my dust-up with Brian Tamanaha yesterday.  Now, back to the survey.  Before leaving the colonial period, I'm interested in the...

Via the Edinburgh Legal History Blog, here is the program for the 32nd Annual Conference and AGM of the Scottish Legal History Group, to be...

Our Guest Blogger, Anders Walker, St. Louis Law , has posted E ngland Bound: The Problem of Reading American Legal History from the Top Down...

Louise Weinberg, Texas Law , has posted Unlikely Beginnings of Modern Constitutional Thought.   Here is the abstract: This paper notes an ...

The Law & Politics Book Review has posted a review of Ralph A. Rossum, The Supreme Court and Tribal Gaming: California v. Cabazon Ban...

Linda Greenhouse and Reva Siegel, Yale Law , have posted, in its entirety, their documentary history, Before Roe v. Wade: Voices that Shaped...

There is a little bit of a “fish out of water” experience awaiting Ph.D.’s or A.B.D.’s who attend law school. A couple of weeks of "...

Roderick M. Hills, Jr., NYU Law , has posted Exorcising McCulloch: The Conflict-Ridden History of American Banking Nationalism and Dodd-Fran...

Since Annette Clark’s abrupt resignation the week before last, things have been frenetic here at SLU.   Within 24 hours, the university ap...

This week in the Wall Street Journal Rufus Phillips reviews Fredrik Logevall's Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of A...

The Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia hosts a day-long symposium on Lincoln, War, and the Constitution on Saturday, September 15, 2...

Thanks to Ronald Collins for bringing to our attention a symposium on Alexander Bickel over at SCOTUSblog.  To date it includes, in addi...

We have the following call for papers for a panel on "William Blackstone: Intersections between Law and Culture,” to be proposed for th...

Jared A. Goldstein, Roger Williams University School of Law , has posted Un popular Constitutionalism: The American Liberty League and the I...

The Invention of Law in the West (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press), by Aldo Schiavone ( Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane), is r...