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[We have the following announcement.] The Legal History and Rare Books (LH&RB) Section of the American Association of Law Libraries (AAL...

[We have the following CFP for the Socio-Legal Studies Association 2015, conference, "Law and Justice in Colonies and Post-Colonies....

Colin G. James, Newcastle Law School ; has posted A History of Cruelty in Australian Divorce , which appeared in the 2006 ANZLH E-Journal.  ...

Umut Özsu , Assistant Professor of Law, University of Manitoba, has recently published Formalizing Displacement: International Law and Popul...

[We have the following call for proposals .] The 2015 annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History (ASLH) will take place in W...

Christopher Tomlins, University of California, Berkeley Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program , has posted Foreword. 'Law as …' II...

[We have the following announcement.] The editors of Law & Social Inquiry are pleased to announce our annual competition for the best...

Michael Boucai (State University of New York, Buffalo, Law School) has posted " Glorious Precedents: When Gay Marriage was Radical ....

After a two week vacation, we have several book reviews to highlight for Legal History Blog readers. The Nation  has a review of Naomi Mu...

From the New York Review of Books : " 'Selma' v. History ." "By distorting an essential truth about the relationship...

Ewan McGaughey, King's College, London, Dickson Poon School of Law , has posted The Codetermination Bargains: The History of German Corp...

Melle Bakker, Université Paris II - Panthéon-Assas , has posted A History of Economic Cross-Border Agreements in Europe , which appears in t...

David Fox, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge , has posted three book chapters on the legal history of money.  The first is Monetary Ob...

Via the Canadian Legal History Blog , we have the winter/spring schedule for the Osgoode Society Legal History Workshop . OSGOODE SOCIETY...

Leonard Birdsong, Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law , has posted Felony Murder: A Historical Perspective by Which to Understa...

Malcolm M. Feeley, University of California, Berkeley , School of Law, and Setsuo Miyazawa , University of California Hastings College of...

Matthew C. Mirow, Florida International University College of Law , has posted Law in East Florida 1783-1821 , which is forthcoming in the A...

A reminder of all the legal history offerings at this year's meeting of the American Historical Association (taking place right now i...

Courtney I. P. Thomas , a visiting assistant professor of political science at Virginia Tech , has published In Food We Trust: The Politics ...

Out this month from Cambridge University Press in its Cambridge Studies in English Legal History is The Law of Contract, 1670–1870 , by Warr...

Michael Ashley Stein, William & Mary Law School , and Christopher P. Guzelian and Kristina M Guzelian, Thomas Jefferson School of Law ,...

Nikitas Hatzimihail, University of Cyprus, Department of Law, has posted Genealogies of Lex Mercatoria , which appeared in Studies in Memori...

Monica E. Eppinger, Saint Louis University School of Law and Department of Sociology and Anthropology, has posted Governing in the Vernacul...

Catherine Chicoine and Patrick M. Garry, University of South Dakota School of Law , have posted The 1885 and 1889 Constitutional Convention ...

Michael J. Bazyler, Chapman University , and Frank M. Tuerkheimer, University of Wisconsin , have published Forgotten Trials of the Holocaus...

New York City's Housing Court at 40 : "a compilation of interviews of many people who were involved with the formation of Housing ...

Jean Elting Rowe and Theodore Silver, Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center , have posted The Jurisprudence of Action and Inaction in...

credit With the arrival of the holidays and the departure of Legal History Bloggers for various destinations, LHB will be entering a per...

We noted this book back in July, when we posted Timothy Huebner's Spring 2014 round-up of New Books in U.S. Constitutional/Legal History...

Jeffrey Shulman, Georgetown University Law Center , has posted Meyer, Pierce, and the History of the Entire Human Race: Barbarism, Social P...

Scott D. Gerber, Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law , has posted Liberal Originalism: The Declaration of Independence and Consti...

[From the press release:] Stefan Vogenauer appointed as new Director at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History European Leg...

[We have a call for papers for Stanford Law School’s Eighth International Junior Faculty Forum:] Sponsored by Stanford Law School, the Int...

Via H-Law , here’s the TOC for the Journal of Supreme Court History 40:1. Introduction Melvin I. Urofsky Founding the Third Branch: Ju...

[We're moving this up, as the deadline of December 30, 2014, is approaching] The Institute for Constitutional History is pleased to an...

Thomas J. McSweeney, William & Mary Law School , has posted Magna Carta, Civil Law, and Canon Law , which appears in Magna Carta and the...

H-Net adds a review this week of Gail Radford's The Rise of the Public Authority: Statebuilding and Economic Development in Twentieth-C...

Via The Junto: A guest post from Spencer McBride (Joseph Smith Papers) on “ Strange Constitutional Bedfellows: The First and Third Amendme...