Legal History Blog

[Here is the provisional program for the Lincoln Record Society's Magna Carta Conference , to be held April 7-9, 2015, at the University...

Over at JOTWELL , Pat Gudridge (University of Miami School of Law) has shined a spotlight on a student Note by Daniel Taylor Young , titled...

New from the University of Toronto Press and the Osgoode Society: The Court of Appeal for Ontario: Defining the Right of Appeal in Canada, 1...

Nell Irving Painter has a review in The New York Times  of William Wells Brown: An African American Life  by Ezra Greenspan (Norton ...

Canadian legal historians are justifiably proud of Philip Girard for his beautifully crafted and insightful plenary address at last week...

[ Via H-Law , we have the following news of the ASLH’s Sutherland Prize, announced last week at the Society’s annual meeting.] The Sutherlan...

Via H-Law, we have news of two other awards given by the Cromwell Foundation, after consultation with the American Society for Legal History...

The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation awarded this year's Cromwell Dissertation Prize to Elisa Martia Alvarez Minoff (University of So...

Jeffrey K. Sawyer, University of Baltimore School of Law, has posted, in two parts “The Rhetoric and Reality of English Law in Colonial Mar...

Over at Jotwell, Joanna Grisinger, Northwestern , has posted Bringing History into the Law School Classroom , a review of Teaching Legal His...

Reuel Schiller Reuel Schiller, Hastings Law , has posted some of his backlist on SSRN.  If you haven’t been reading Professor Schiller, ...

[Here, via H-Law , is the citation for the Professor António Manuel Hespanha, whose selection as an Honorary Fellow was announced at the...

Mary Frances Berry ( credit) [Here, via H-Law , is the citation for the Professor Mary Frances Berry , whose selection as an Honorary Fe...

[Here, via H-Law , is the citation for the Professor Charles Donahue , whose selection as an Honorary Fellow was announced at the recent ASL...

M. H. Hoeflich, Kansas Law , has published In Judge Lecompte’s Court , University of Kansas Law Review 62 (2014): 1169-1225.  It commences:...

The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation awards annually a $5,000 book prize for excellence in scholarship in the field of American Legal His...

[Many, many thanks to Jeff Perry , PhD Candidate and Bilsland Fellow in Purdue University ’s Department of History, for this report on the “...

[We have the following announcement.] The ASLH Honors Committee invites members of the Society to submit the names of persons appropriate ...

Continuing our announcements of the winners of the ASLH's annual prizes and awards, this year's Surrency Prize went to David Fras...

[We have the following announcement for the conference "Old and New Worlds: The Global Challenges of Rural History,” to be held in Lisb...

More prize and award news from last week's meeting of the American Society for Legal History: This year's John Phillip Reid Book Awa...

And, in keeping with the emerging theme of Antipodean legal history in today's posts, we note a recent call for contributors to "a...

A press release from the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland reports that a grant from the Australian Research Council to th...

Grant Morris , Senior Lecturer in Law, Victoria University of Wellington , has published the judicial biography Prendergast: Legal Villain? ...

The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis is soliciting nominations for its annual National Book Award....

[Here is the second panel report from Victoria Saker Woeste , Research Professor, American Bar Foundation .  The first one is here.  Thanks,...

A big tip of the hat to Michael Ross, University of Maryland History , for making sure we knew of “the great legal history panels at this So...

[We are grateful to Victoria Saker Woeste , Research Professor, American Bar Foundation, for two marvelously complete reports of panels at ...

New from Wilfred Laurier University Press: Abuse or Punishment? Violence toward Children in Quebec Families, 1850-1969 , by Marie-Aimée Cli...

For those of you who couldn't attend this year's meeting of the American Society for Legal History, or who simply want to relive the...

Jessica Lowe, University of Virginia School of Law , has posted Radicalism's Legacy: American Legal History Since 1998 , which is forthc...