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James Wice Gordon, Western New England University School of Law , has posted Was the First Justice Harlan Anti-Chinese? which appears in th...

Richard J. Ross, University of Illinois College of Law and Department of History, and Philip J. Stern, Duke University History Department,...

The Socio-Legal Review welcomes contributions for its eleventh volume to be released in 2015. The Socio-Legal Review ( SLR ) is a student-...

Via H-Law, we have the following job posting : The History Department at the University of California, Irvine, seeks to hire a tenure-tra...

New from the University of Massachusetts Press: Citizenship in Cold War America: The National Security State and the Possibilities of Dissen...

Anuj C. Desai (University of Wisconsin Law School) has posted " What a History of Tax Withholding Tells Us About the Relationship betw...

Credit: LC Linda Kawaguchi, Chapman University Fowler School of Law, has posted the introduction to a collection of readings on Dodge ...

Thomas Duve, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History , has posted German Legal History: National Traditions and Transnational Perspe...

New from Yale University Press: The Constitutional Parent: Rights, Responsibilities, and the Enfranchisement of the Child (2014), by Jeffre...

To follow up on last week's post, here's a few more posts on the Nixon tapes, all at The Daily Beast . There's an interview wi...

Christopher Lawrence Tomlins, University of California, Berkeley, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program , has posted Revulsions of Capital...

From the HLS website: A Q&A with LHB Blogger Tomiko Brown-Nagin on the Unfinished Business of Civil Rights   Check out Nicholas Pa...

Salmon P. Chase ( LC ) On December 5-6, 2014, the Center for the Constitution at the Georgetown University Law Center will host a lectur...

As the writer of about two thirds of a history of the Georgetown University Law Center , I’m always Mirror, Mirror, off the Wall? inter...

Gary Lawson, Boston University School of Law , has posted a review of Philip Hamburger’s  Is Administrative Law Unlawful? , The Return of th...

Years in the making, the website of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) is now on line, with many resources of...

Have you recently completed a dissertation or published a book? Consider applying for one of the Organization of American Historians ' m...

Charles W. McCurdy [As a long-time admirer of Professor McCurdy , I’m very pleased to have received the following email from University ...

[We are pleased to have received the following press release from the Public Information Office of the Supreme Court of the United States.] ...

[Via the HLS Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation , we have word of the latest working paper by Naomi R. Lamoreaux , Stanl...

Mary L. Dudziak, Emory University School of Law , has posted Legal History as Foreign Relations History , which appears in Explaining the Hi...

New from the University of Chicago Press: After They Closed the Gates: Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921-1965 (2014), ...

Helge Dedek (McGill University/Institute of Comparative Law) has posted " Stating Boundaries: The Law, Disciplined ." Dedek descr...

The helpful folks at the Library of Congress have created an Indigenous Law Portal to assist researchers interested in Indian Law and Nati...

The July 2014 issue of the Journal of Supreme Court History is now available online . Here's the TOC: Introduction Melvin I. Urof...

Since the book's release we've noted several reviews of Bruce Ackerman's  We the People: Vol. 3: The Civil Rights Revolution  (H...

The Bennington Banner has published a lengthy report of Paul Gilles's recent lecture to the Bennington Historical Society based on hi...

Judson E. Crump and Alfred L. Brophy, University of North Carolina School of Law , has posted Cornelius Sinclair's Odyssey: Freedom, Sl...

Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., University of Georgia Law School , has posted Habeas Corpus Proceedings in the High Court of Parliament in the Reign ...

Gregory S. Gordon (University of North Dakota - School of Law) has posted " The Forgotten Nuremberg Hate Speech Case: Otto Dietrich an...

The Iowa Law Review has posted all of the articles stemming from its November 2013 Symposium on the 50th anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwrig...

New from McGill-Queen's University Press: Rules and Unruliness: Canadian Regulatory Democracy, Governance, Capitalism, and Welfarism , b...

The British Legal History Conference 2015 has issued the following Call for Papers : Conference Venue: School of Law, University of Read...

Lyman Johnson (Washington and Lee University - School of Law; University of St. Thomas, St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN - School of Law) has poste...