Legal History Blog

Over on HNN, David Austin Walsh has posted the video of a plenary session at last week’s meeting of the Organization of American Historians,...

The Sanford Herald reports on a new push to preserve North Carolina’s legal history here . The website of the Washington Independent R...

[We have the following announcement .] On Tuesday, April 16th, at 7PM, The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva Uni...

Keith Werhan , Tulane University Law School , has posted (an edited version) of Popular Constitutionalism, Ancient and Modern , UC Davis Law...

Thanks to Dan Ernst for inviting me to contribute posts to the Legal History Blog about my new book, Law’s History: American Legal Thought ...

Emily A Prifogle , a J.D., and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, Princeton University , has posted Law and Local Activism: Unc...

Richard R. W. Brooks and Carol M. Rose have published Saving the Neighborhood: Racially Restrictive Covenants, Law, and Social Norms, w...

Richard A. Danner, Duke University School of Law , has posted Foreword: Oh, the Treatise! Which appears in Michigan Law Review 111 (2013)....

William E. Foster, Washburn University School of Law , has posted Partisan Politics and Income Tax Rates , which is to appear in Michigan St...

During April, Comparative Studies in Society and History is providing access to three essays, each of which treat how states make jurisdict...

Alexander Wohl has published Father, Son, and Constitution: How Justice Tom Clark and Attorney General Ramsey Clark Shaped American Democra...

The Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians starts tomorrow in San Francisco. The program looks terrific. Here are ...

In their brilliant skewering of law school histories, Alfred S. Konsefsky and John Henry Schlegel lamented the tendency of authors to ignor...

Stephen J. Lubben, Seton Hall University School of Law , has posted The Bankruptcy Clause , which is forthcoming in volume 64 of the Case We...

Jill Norgren , professor emerita at John Jay College and the University Graduate Center, The City University of New York and the author o...

Paul Axel-Lute, Rutgers University Library for the Center for Law & Justice , has posted Justice Bradley's Docket Books and Law Book...

David Armitage , the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Harvard University , will deliver thi...

Brett Gadsden , an Associate Professor of African American studies at Emory University , has recently Between North and South: Delaware, Des...

The Fall 2012 issue of Law & Social Inquiry includes " The Story of the Tattooed Lady: Scandal and the Colonial State in British B...

[We posted this notice of my colleague Randy Barnett 's paper last year. Recently we learned from the law review that the article, 63 C...

[We're moving up this notice, as Professor Goluboff will be speaking later this week.] The John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Cong...

Now available for purchase is Making Legal History: Essays in Honor of William E. Nelson , edited by Daniel Hulsebosch and R. B. Bernstein (...

Keith E. Whittington, Princeton University Department of Politics , has posted T he Status of Unwritten Constitutional Conventions in the Un...

Anthony V. Baker (John Marshall Law School [Atlanta]) has posted " 'For the Murder of His Own Female Slave, a Woman Named Mira…...

The New York Times this week has two reviews of books about Roosevelt.  Kevin Boyle reviews Ira Katznelson's Fear Itself: The New Dea...

  R.I.P. Robert V. Remini , an historian known for his work on Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and the U.S. House of Representa...

Barry Cushman, Notre Dame Law School , has posted The Health Care Decision and the Lost Generation of Child Labor Reform , which is forthcom...

Via H-Law, we have the following job posting: Visiting Assistant Professor of American Politics- One Year Replacement Department of Polit...

Todd Haugh, Chicago-Kent College of Law, has posted Chicago's “Great Boodle Trial,” which is a chapter in Then & Now: Stories of L...

Maybe it's the Torts professor in me, but the following article -- spotlighted this week over at JOTWELL -- struck me as an item of inte...

Oops! I realized today that we never spotlighted the November 2012 issue of the Law & History Review . It was full of good stuff (and ...

Dean A. Strang , a criminal defense lawyer in Madison, Wisconsin, has published Worse than the Devil Anarchists, Clarence Darrow, and Justic...

With the changing of the guest blogger guard (we recently welcomed David Rabban ), it is time to bid a fond farewell to Benjamin Coates (Wa...

Kenneth Anderson, Washington College of Law, American University , has posted Time Out of Joint , his review of War Time: An Idea, Its Histo...

The National History Center of the American Historical Association announce an a congressional briefing, Historical Perspectives on Congre...

We welcome this month’s guest blogger, David M. Rabban , the Dahr Jamail, Randall Hage Jamail and Robert Lee Jamail Regents Chair and the U...

On Monday we mentioned a recent release from the University of Toronto Press (Brown, Arming and Disarming ). Here's another one: Barring...