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"What does it mean to lose your citizenship?" Linda Kerber (University of Iowa) asks, in a recent piece in Dissent . "That ...

Robert Reinstein, Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law , has posted Is the President’s Recognition Power Exclusive? which is fo...

Eileen H. Tamura , College of Education, University of Hawai'i Manoa , has published In Defense of Justice: Joseph Kurihara and the Japa...

Via H-Law , we have word of a session of the Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar to be held at the Massachusetts Historical Society...

The Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy at the State University of New York at Buffalo has announced that it will award several fell...

On Tuesday, November 19, 2013, at 4:15 PM, in the Knafel Center (formerly Radcliffe Gymnasium), 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, the R...

On Monday, November 18, 2013, at 4:00 p.m, the Washington History Seminar continues with Linda Colley, Princeton University , speaking on “W...

Via H-Law , we have word of the eight recipients of research grants awarded by the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation in conjunction with a...

[We are very grateful to Ryan Greenwood , the 2013/14 Rare Book Fellow at the Lilllian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law Schoo l, for this repor...

[We have the following Call for Papers for a conference on Shady Business: White Collar Crime in History at the German Historical Institute ...

At this past meeting of the American Society for Legal History , the Board approved a series of measures aimed at supporting early career sc...

The biggest obstacle to writing American legal history, in my view, is the dearth and inaccessibility of records of state legislative delib...

Via H-Law , we have more awards news: the winner of the 2013 John Phillip Reid Book Award for the best book in Anglo-American legal histor...

Via H-Law we have word that the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation, acting in conjunction with the American Society for Legal History, has a...

[We were alerted to this symposium by Legal Scholarship Blog .  While we're at it, we'll note the publication of The Second Amendme...

[In the program of the ASLH's annual meeting, we spotted the following announcemen t of the Australian New Zealand Law and History Confe...

One very interesting feature of the program at the just-concluded annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History was the inclusio...

Here's another award from this year's ASLH meeting: The Cromwell Article Prize , given by the William Nelson Cromwell Found...

Via H-Law , we have the citation for the ASLH’s 2013 Surrency Prize, which was awarded to Laura M. Weinrib , University of Chicago Law Schoo...

Sir John H. Baker ( wikimedia ) Via H-Law , we have news of that the winner of the American Society for Legal History’s 2013 Sutherland ...

Among the prizes awarded at the annual meeting of the ASLH was the Paul Murphy Award , which "support[s] the completion of a book on th...

John Yoo, University of California at Berkeley School of Law , has posted Lincoln at War , which is forthcoming in the Vermont Law Review 3...

Over at Environment, Law, and History , David Schorr has posted a report of the environment-related papers he was able to see. If you...

At last week's annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History, it was announced that the book prize annually awarded by the Wi...

Rodger D. Citron (Touro College - Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center) has posted " The Last Common Law Justice: The Personal Jurisdiction Ju...

We're just back from the annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History and delighted to begin announcing the winners of the ...

Here's some light reading for all those who are making their way back home from the ASLH Conference. H-Net has added reviews of Dan R...

The Law and History Review is kind of a big deal, according to Google Scholar . Over at the Faculty Lounge, Matthew Crow (Hobart and Wi...

New from Stanford University Press: The Street Politics of Abortion : Speech, Violence, and America's Culture Wars , by Joshua C. Wilson...

Kenneth J. Vandevelde, Thomas Jefferson School of Law , has posted A Brief History of International Investment Agreements , which appeared i...

Charles Angelucci, Harvard University, Department of Economics, and Simone Meraglia , University of Toulouse 1 - Toulouse School of Economi...

Scott D. Gerber , Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law, has posted Law and the Lively Experiment in Colonial Rhode Island , which...

Your Legal History Bloggers will be in transit today and in the flesh at the annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History for th...