Legal History Blog

Thomas O. Gorman , who is, among other things, co-chair of Dorsey & Whitney ’s Anticorruption and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act practice...

Linda C. McClain, Boston University School of Law , has posted The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 'Legislating Morality': On Conscienc...

New from Syracuse University Press: Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt , by Ke...

[We're moving this post up because the deadline of May 22 is fast approaching.] The Institute for Constitutional History is pleased t...

Thanks to Mark Spiegel's article and Felice Batlan's book , it has been a big week for the history of legal aid.  Keep it going by...

Javier Ortiz, Matthew Dick , and Sara Rankin , Seattle University School of Law , have posted The Wrong Side of History: A Comparison of Mo...

Recipients of the University of Virginia's Miller Center National Fellowship for 2015-16 have been announced.  Descriptions of the fello...

Perhaps a close look at any legal community would reveal its share of interesting characters, but if you're studying lawyers in San Fran...

New from Cambridge University Press: Islamic Law, Gender and Social Change in Post-Abolition Zanzibar (April 2015), by Elke Stockreiter (Un...

[We have the following c all for papers .] The 3rd Annual TAU Workshop for Junior Scholars: Theory Coming to Life, Tel-Aviv, October 26-27 ,...

Mark Spiegel, Boston College Law School (and a former Reggie ), has posted Legal Aid 1900 to 1930: What Happened to Law Reform? which is f...

Christopher W. Schmidt, Chicago-Kent College of Law and the American Bar Foundation , has posted The Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Divide , w...

In my last post I discussed the background to the Banks v. Housing Authority case: the San Francisco Housing Authority’s separate but equa...

Walter Gellhorn (1974), UVA Law Library In my last post , I mentioned the Oversize Personnel Security Investigation Case Files, invento...

[Longtime LHB readers will recall that the exam in my annual survey of American legal history includes a biographical essay.  Here is this ...

[We have the following announcement.] The Harvard Law School Library’s Historical & Special Collections team is pleased to announce tw...

[We are moving this post up as the deadline of May 15 is approaching.] The Institute for Constitutional History is pleased to announce a ...

Intisar A. Rabb, Harvard Law School , has posted Against Kadijustiz: On the Negative Citation of Foreign Law , which is forthcoming in the S...

I've been really looking forward to this new release, from Cambridge University Press: Women and Justice for the Poor : A History of Leg...

Eric Alden, Northern Kentucky University, Chase College of Law , has posted Rethinking Promissory Estoppel , which is forthcoming in the Nev...

Next weekend, commencing sometime Saturday afternoon,  Charles L. Zelden, Nova Southeastern University , will discuss his book Thurgood Mars...

The Ping Yuen Public Housing Project in 1956 ( San Francisco Public Library, Historical Photo Collection ) While researching Forging Riv...

Brandon L. Paradise, Rutgers Law School-Newark, has published How Critical Race Theory Marginalizes the African-American Christian Traditio...

The Washington Post has a review of Cokie Roberts's Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868  (Harper). Ch...

Martha S. Jones, University of Michigan , has an op-ed tracing the origins of the recent unrest in Baltimore to the mortgage crisis, which...

Anthony J. Bellia Jr., Notre Dame Law School, and Bradford R. Clark, George Washington University Law School , have posted The Original Sou...

Sean M. Kammer, University of South Dakota School of Law , has posted "No Trespassing": Railroad Land Grants, the Right of Exclusi...

Erin Ryan. Lewis & Clark Law School , has posted The Public Trust Doctrine, Private Water Allocation, and Mono Lake: The Historic Saga o...

Thomas Edison's Laboratory ( Carol M. Highsmith/LC ) Adam Mossoff, George Mason University School of Law, has posted Patent Licensi...

Patrick J. Charles, United States Air Force , has posted The "Originalism is Not History" Disclaimer: A Historian's Rebuttal ,...

Benito Arruñada, Universitat Pompeu Fabra , has posted The Institutions of Roman Markets :     I analyze the basis of the market economy i...

LHB Founder Mary L. Dudziak has two lectures this month.  She will be delivering the  David M. Kennedy Lecture on the United States in the ...

Western Addition Redevelopment Site, c. 1967 (Source: SF Redevelopment Agency/FoundSF ) A large part of Forging Rivals describes the p...