Legal History Blog

Andrew Kent, Fordham University School of Law , has posted The New Originalism and the Foreign Affairs Constitution , which is forthcoming i...

The next public event at Boston College’s Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy is the panel Quebec Secession: Constitutio...

Tax resisters have had their historians, including Carolyn Jones, who contributed a chapter on Viven Kellems to a book I edited with Victor ...

Steven R. Morrison (University of North Dakota School of Law) has posted " Membership Crime and the First Amendment ." Here's...

[Here, somewhat belatedly, is the announcement of "Sovereignties," the Vanderbilt History Seminar this academic year.] The the...

New from Cambridge University Press: Law and Legal Process: Substantive Law and Procedure in English Legal History , edited by Matthew Dyson...

As we mentioned last month, guest blogger Sarah Barringer Gordon is helping us launch a new, reader-driven feature here on the blog: Rea...

[We have the following CFP for the conference, "The Corpse of Evidence: Cadavers and Proofs in Early Modern European Forensic Medicine....

[We gave the following "Call for Papers from Those Teaching Legal History Courses in U.S. Law Schools."] The October 2013 issue ...

[ Via H-Law , we have the followng CFP sent out by Christopher Tomlins , the Chancellor's Professor of Law, at the School of Law, Univer...

Jean-Christian Vinel, who teaches American history at Université Paris-Diderot , has recently published The Employee: A Political History ,...

The Nation   reviews Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing and the Public Domain  (Oxford Univ. Press) by Robert Spoo. "Sometime...

In an op-ed in the New York Times , historian Sean Wilentz (Princeton University) argues that by refusing to raise the debt limit, Congres...

[We have the following CFP, from Gabriela Grochola, "Leader of the Section of State and Law History, Students Learned Society," Ja...

We’ll be posting notices of a few legal history related books published this year that only recently have come to our attention.  The first ...

Over at JOTWELL , James E. Pfander (Northwestern University) is urging readers to check out " The Committee of Detail ," a recent...

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY Volume 53, Issue 4 (October 2013) “TEACHING LEGAL HISTORY IN U.S. LAW SCHOOLS:   A SYMPOSIUM”...

Lochlan Shelfer , a recent Yale Law School graduate, has posted " Special Juries in the Supreme Court ," which is scheduled to app...

Credit Peter Handford, University of Western Australia Faculty of Law , has posted Lord Campbell and the Fatal Accidents Act , which app...

We have an announcement of a conference on Richard Brooks and Carol M. Rose’s Saving the Neighborhood: Racially Restrictive Covenants, Law a...

Martha S. Jones (University of Michigan) has posted " The Case of Jean Baptiste, un Créole De Saint-Domingue: Narrating Slavery, Freedo...

We’ve just noticed a posting of two presentations this semester in Penn Law’s Legal History Consortium .  On Thursday, October 10, Mitra Sha...

[We have the following announcement for the conference "The Law and the Child in Historical Perspective, 1400-2000," to be held Ju...

Credit John Q. Barrett, St. John's University School of Law and the Robert H. Jackson Center, has posted his remarks at the naming...

Credit: Wikimedia Commons Long after the death of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., W. Barton Leach collected the reminiscences of the justice...

Colette Routel (William Mitchell College of Law) has posted " Minnesota Bounties on Dakota Men During the US-Dakota War ." Here...

Alberto Bernabe (John Marshall Law School) has posted " Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due: A Comment on the Theoretical Foundation and...

This week on H-Net, John Sbardellati's J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies: The FBI and the Origins of Hollywood's Cold War  (Cornel...