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The Journal of American History has issued the following call for papers : Civil Rights Struggles of the 1950s and 1960s Please join t...

The Springfield Republican/Masslive.com is running a profile of ASLH President Bruce Mann .  Fellow legal historians Mary Sarah Bilder and ...

This week in the Wall Street Journal , Yascha Mounk reviews Mark Mazower's Governing the World: The History of an Idea   (Penguin).  ...

Christoph Kletzer, King's College London School of Law , has posted Primitive Law .  The brief abstract explains that “this paper discus...

Issue 52:4 (October 2012) of the American Journal of Legal History is out.  Its two articles are “‘Is It Legal?: A Forgotten Gem of British...

Ashraf H. A. Rushdy , professor of African American studies at Wesleyan University , has published American Lynching with the Yale Universi...

On Thursday, October 18, from 4 - 6 p.m., the  George Washington University Law School will host a program on David M. Dorsen’s Henry Friend...

Legal history is in the spotlight this week at In the Service of Clio , a blog run by professor Nick Sarantakes (U.S. Naval War College). F...

Today's New York Time s reviews Lincoln's Code , by John Fabian Witt (Yale Law School). Reviewer Jennifer Schuessler is particular...

Farrar, Straus and Giroux announces the publication of All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s by Robert ...

Gated but still worthy of note by legal historians are two articles in the latest Journal of Economic History 72:3 (September 2012): "...

[We have the following call for the Julien Mezey Dissertation Prize of Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities.] The ...

Samuel Moyn, Columbia University , has posted Did the Irish Save Civilization? The Secret History of Constitutional Dignity .  Here is the a...

I’m very pleased to note that my fellow Legal History Blogger Karen M. Tani, University of California-Berkeley Law, has posted Welfare and ...

At 3:00 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012, Victoria Saker Woeste, American Bar Foundation , will speak on her book Henry Ford's War on Je...

Via H-Law, we have a review of Nicholas Draper , The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End ...

Parents, Children and Property in Late 18th-Century Chancery by Adam Hofri, Hebrew University Law , will appear in the 32:4 issue of the Ox...

Recently published by the University of Chicago Press is the political scientist George I. Lovell ’s This Is Not Civil Rights: Discovering R...

Keith H. Hirokawa, Albany Law School , has posted From Euclid to the Development of Federal Environmental Law: The U.S. District Court for t...

This week, TNR: The Book has a review by Eric Posner of The Partisan: The Life of William Rehnquist by John A. Jenkins (PublicAffairs).  P...

Congratulations to Michael Vorenberg, Brown University , for winning the New Yorker 's Cartoon Caption Contest!  (Hat tip: David Tanenha...

ASLH members: don't forget to cast your ballot for the 2012 elections . The polls close at midnight on October 7 . Ballots may be submit...

Over at JOTWELL , Stuart Banner praises Jed Shugerman 's The People's Courts .  From the Chronicle of Higher Education : a pos...

A few spotlights from the October 2012 issue of Perspectives on History , the newsmagazine of the AHA. " The 40th Anniversary of Roe...

Studies in Legal History, the book series of the American Society for Legal History, now has a website --and an attractive logo!

From Reviews in History , we have a review of Making History: The Historian and the Uses of the Past (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) , by Jorma...

The Max Planck Institute for European Legal History has started a Law Research Centers Papers series within SSRN's the Legal Scholarship...