Saturday, April 19, 2014

Weekend Roundup

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From the Junto: " Is Blogging Scholarship? Reflections on the OAH Panel ." Congratulations to Roman Hoyos, Southwestern Law Sc...
Friday, April 18, 2014

Berring on West's Digests and Legal Thought

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Richard A. Danner, Duke University School of Law , has posted Influences of the Digest Classification System: What Can We Know? , which also...

The Romance of Flight and Patent Litigation

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We don’t review books here at Legal History Blog, but we also don’t complain when publishers send us review copies.  This week we received B...

Ecklund's "Origins of Western Law from Athens to the Code Napoleon"

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Talbot Publishing has announced the publication of The Origins of Western Law from Athens to the Code Napoleon by John E. Ecklund (1916-20...

New Release: Nelson, "Pathways to the Supreme Court: From the Arena to the Monastery"

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New from Palgrave Macmillan: Pathways to the Supreme Court: From the Arena to the Monastery (Dec. 2013), by Garrison Nelson (University of V...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

Call for Nominations: Peter Oliver Prize in Canadian Legal History

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Another announcement from our friends at the Canadian Legal History Blog: The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History invites nominati...

Call for Applications: R. Roy McMurtry Fellowship in Canadian Legal History

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Via the Canadian Legal History Blog, we have the following fellowship announcement : The R. Roy McMurtry Fellowship in Canadian Legal His...

New Release: Crawford, "The Fight for Status and Privilege in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile, 1465–1598"

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New from Penn State University Press: The Fight for Status and Privilege in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile, 1465–1598 , by Michael J...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Pfander and Birk on the Adverse Party Requirement

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James E. Pfander and Daniel D. Birk, Northwestern University School of Law , have posted Article III Judicial Power, the Adverse-Party Requ...

Thomas on the Fall of the Jury

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Suja A. Thomas, University of Illinois College of Law , has posted Blackstone's Curse: The Fall of the Criminal, Civil, and Grand Jurie...

Colgan, "Reviving the Excessive Fines Clause"

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Beth A. Colgan (Stanford Law School) has posted " Reviving the Excessive Fines Clause ," which appears in Volume 102, no. 2 of th...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

A Final Post on Tax Day

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"The New Man on the Job" ( LC ) Former Guest Blogger Ajay Mehrotra's op-ed: The Lost Promise of Progressive Taxes .

Kellogg on Holmes on the Syllogism

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This one looks fascinating, especially for fans of The Metaphysical Club .  Frederic R. Kellogg, George Washington University , has posted T...

Krakoff, "Constitutional Concern, Membership, and Race"

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Sarah Krakoff (University of Colorado Law School) has posted " Constitutional Concern, Membership, and Race ," which is forthcomin...

Docket Books at the Supreme Court: A Definitive List and Access Rules

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Courtesy: Office of the Curator, US Supreme Court When U.S. Supreme Justice James McReynolds pushed his docket book across his desk ...
Monday, April 14, 2014

Carle Receives Liberty Legacy Foundation Award for "Defining the Struggle"

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[We have the following press release from the Organization of American Historians about former LHB Guest Blogger Susan Carle !] Atlanta, G...

Lain on Reconstructing Engler

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Corinna Lain, University of Richmond School of Law , has posted God, Civic Virtue, and the American Way: Reconstructing Engel , which is for...

Spitzer on the Washington State Supreme Court in the Progressive Era

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Hugh D. Spitzer, University of Washington School of Law , has posted Pivoting to Progressivism: Justice Stephen J. Chadwick, the Washington ...

Lash's "Fourteenth Amendment and the Privileges and Immunities of American Citizenship"

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Just out from the Cambridge University Press is The Fourteenth Amendment and the Privileges and Immunities of American Citizenship by Kurt ...
Sunday, April 13, 2014

Sunday Book Roundup

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Chris Bryant's Parliament: the Biography, Vol. 1  (Doublday) is reviewed in the New Statesman . "Bryant’s volume runs from this p...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

Weekend Roundup

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The University of Pennsylvania has announced that legal historian Wendell E. Pritchett (currently the Chancellor of Rutgers University-Cam...
Friday, April 11, 2014

The Civil War and the Supreme Court

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I want to highlight two upcoming events in the 2014 Leon Silverman Lecture Series of the Supreme Court Historical Society .  First, on May ...

Klerman on the Economic Analysis of Legal History

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Daniel M. Klerman, University of Southern California Law School , has posted Economic Analysis of Legal History , which is forthcoming in Me...

Mehrotra et al. on LOTL on Citizenship and Taxation

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Tax Day looms up again, and with it renewed interest in the history of taxation.  Just up on The Life of the Law is a podcast that includes...

New Release: Spears, "Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town"

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New from the University of North Carolina Press: Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town , by Ellen Griffith...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Finding the Founders: A Symposium on Women Legal Pioneers

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Mary L. Clark , Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, at the American University Washington College of Law , has sent us an ann...

Brewer Gets a Guggenheim!

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According to today's New York Times , among this year's recipients of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships is Holly...

Perry, Vogel, Barnes, and More Reviewed in the Law & Politics Book Review

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The Law & Politics Book Review is out with a new batch of reviews. Items of interest include: Mark Rush (Washington and Lee Univers...

New Release: Loyd, "Health Rights Are Civil Rights"

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New from the University of Minnesota Press: Health Rights Are Civil Rights: Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963–1978 , by Jena L...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Davies on the Retiring Justice Nelson

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Samuel Nelson ( LC ) Ross E. Davies, George Mason University School of Law , has posted Pioneer of Retirement: Justice Samuel Nelson , w...

Legal History at OAH 2014

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[Many thanks to Lael Weinberger, University of Chicago , for culling the following legal history sessions from the program of this week’s an...