Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Sohoni on Notice and the New Deal

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Mila Sohoni , an Acting Assistant Professor at New York University School of Law , has posted Notice and the New Deal , which appears in Duk...

Bernstein on Buchanan v. Warley

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David Bernstein, George Mason University School of Law , has posted an important article from his backlist, Philip Sober Controlling Philip ...

Levine and Wermiel on a Near Miss for New York Times v. Sullivan

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Lee Levine and Stephen Wermiel have published The Landmark that Wasn’t: A First Amendment Play in Five Acts , in the Washington Law Review...
Monday, March 18, 2013

Bancroft Prize to Witt, Bolster

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Congratulations to legal historian John Fabian Witt (Yale Law School)! He has just been named a winner of the 2013 Bancroft Prize . Here...

Teaching and Research Postdocs in Legal Studies at Northwestern

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The Northwestern University Center for Legal Studies in conjunction with the Jack Miller Center invites applications for a three-year Post...

Rabban's "Law's History"

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A little belatedly, here is a post on Law’s History: American Legal Thought and the Transatlantic Turn to History , by David Rabban , a memb...

Law and the U.S. Foreign Relations Survey, Part III: Empire and the Laws of Expansion

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The myth of the isolationist United States is the myth that will not die. It persists in part because it dismisses the conquest of indigenou...

Snyder on Frankfurter and Popular Constitutionalism

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Brad Snyder, University of Wisconsin Law School , has posted Frankfurter and Popular Constitutionalism , which is to appear in the November ...
Sunday, March 17, 2013

Civil Rights-Era Cold Cases: "Trying to Make a Show"

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A front-page story in today's New York Times on the FBI's investigation of civil rights-era cold cases pursuant to the Emmett Till U...
Saturday, March 16, 2013

Indigenous Memories, Rights, and Narratives

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[We have the following announcement.  As a former Fulbrighter to New Zealand, I’m pleased that Maoridom will be included.] The Columbia Ce...

Weekend Roundup

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Jill Lepore 's latest New Yorker article may be of interest to readers. It is titled " The Dark Ages: Terrorism, Terror, and the ...
Friday, March 15, 2013

Law and the U.S. Foreign Relations Survey, Part II: Teaching the Founding as Foreign Relations

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Everyone remembers the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are crea...

Research Positions on the History of European Legal Culture

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The project Reinventing the Foundations of European Legal Culture 1934-1964 , which is financed by a European Research Council Starting Gran...

Ablavsky, "The Savage Constitution"

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Gregory Ablavsky (University of Pennsylvania) has posted " The Savage Constitution ," which is forthcoming in the Duke Law Journ...

New Release: Esmeir, "Juridical Humanity"

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We have just learned of the publication of Juridical Humanity : A Colonial History (Stanford University Press), by Samera Esmeir (Universi...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

Law and the U.S. Foreign Relations Survey, Part I: Expanding the Sphere, Filling the Gaps

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This past Fall I taught the first half of the United States & the World survey (1763-1914) for the first time. More s...

Conover on the First Athenian Law against Bribery

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Kellam Conover , a J.D. candidate at the Stanford Law School and the holder of a Ph.D. in Classics from Princeton, has posted The First Ath...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

ConIH 13: "Law and International History"

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Harvard’s Thirteenth Annual Graduate Student Conference on International History is this Thursday and Friday, March 14-15, at t...