Legal History Blog

Kenneth Reid, University of Edinburgh School of Law , has posted John Erskine and the Institute of the Law of Scotland , which appeared in v...

[We have the following announcement.] 2015-16 Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History: Anglicization of Law and through Law: E...

New from Harvard University Press: Entrepreneurial Litigation: Its Rise, Fall, and Future (June 2015), by John C. Coffee, Jr. (Columbia La...

New from the University of Illinois Press: Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands: Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon and Black Activism , by Will Guzmán ...

Here’s the line-up for the DC Working Class History Seminar for 2015-16: September  19 Jennifer Luff (Durham University-UK) “Banning r...

Population controllers are some of the most fascinating characters to appear in After Roe . Some of these activists, like former Columbi...

After a weekend off, here's this Sunday's Book Roundup: The Los Angeles Review of Books reviews   Contraband: Louis Mandrin and th...

Guest blogger Sarah Barringer Gordon 's new research on church and state in early America has the enthusiastic endorsement of the Econo...

Paul Daly, University of Montreal Faculty of Law , has posted A Supreme Court's Place in the Constitutional Order – Contrasting Recent E...

Perhaps because one of my first sights upon disembarking in Auckland was someone in a Georgetown tee shirt, I was not immediately struck...

Pro-Life Activists, March for Life, 2015 (Credit: American Life League ) One of the enduring mysteries in constitutional jurisprudence...

Carmen Domínguez, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile , has posted Los Principios Que Informan El Derecho De Familia Chileno: Su Formul...

[We have the following call for submissions.] The Socio-Legal Review welcomes contributions for its twelfth volume to be released in 2016...

Alfred L. Brophy, University of North Carolina School of Law , has posted Re-Integrating Spaces: The Possibilities of Common Law Property , ...

New from the University of Chicago Press: The Grasping Hand: "Kelo v. City of New London" and the Limits of Eminent Domain , by Il...

Deirdre Mask , London School of Economics , Political Science, and Paul MacMahon London School of Economics , Law Department, have posted ...

Isabella Alexander, University of Technology Sydney , Faculty of Law, has posted “Manacles Upon Science”: Re-Evaluating Copyright in Inform...

We have already noted the publication of Studies in Canon Law and Common Law in Honor of R.H. Helmholz , ed. Troy L. Harris (Robbins Collect...

Gail J. Huppe r, a visiting scholar at the Harvard Law School , has posted Educational Ambivalence: The Rise of a Foreign-Student Doctorat...

Christopher Tomlins, University of California, Berkeley, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program , has posted The Work of Death: Massacre an...

James Bopp, June 2011 (Credit: Gage Skidmore ) If you are among the many who do not love the Supreme Court’s campaign-finance decision...

Just published is a much-expanded second edition of The Complete Bill of Rights: The Drafts, Debates, Sources, & Origins (Oxford Unive...

Polly J. Price, Emory University School of Law, has posted A Legislative History of the Shotgun Quarantine :  The recent Ebola threat fro...

Christopher Tomlins, University of California, Berkeley , Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, has posted Debt, Death, and Redemption: ...

If you follow abortion politics today, you probably think that the pro-life movement has long prioritized Roe v. Wade . As attorney Clark F...

We missed this January 2015 release from Harvard University Press: Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice , b...

James Harlow, US Department of Justice , has posted An Impostor If There Ever Was One": The Trials of Charles De Arnaud , which appears...

Ruth H. Bloch and Naomi R. Lamoreaux have posted a gated NBER Working Paper (No. 21153) that issued in May 2015 that is a nice complement ...

[We have the following announcement.] The Georgetown University Institute for Global History and the Mortara Center for International Stud...

The Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley, has posted the fall lineup for its speaker series . ...

[We have the following job announcement.] History of the Islamic World/Muslim World, Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track .  The History Depa...

The Journal Quaestio Iuris (ISSN 1516-0351), quarterly electronic publication of the professors of Law School of the State University of Ri...

Lionel Smith, McGill University Faculty of Law (et al.), has posted Intestate Succession in Quebec forthcoming in Comparative Succession L...

Giorgio Resta , Università degli Studi di Bari , Law Faculty, and Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich University of Rome III   Department of Law, have p...

[We have the following announcement for the Supreme Court Fellows Program .] Credit Each year, the Supreme Court Fellows Commission ...

Stanford has posted on its YouTube channel six lectures by Jack Rakove on “the history and future of the U.S. Constitution” from his cours...

[Here’s the line-up for the Yale Law School Legal History Forum for 2015-16.  We’ll add a link once it becomes available. “As always,” we a...

Here’s the TOC for Law and History Review 33:3 (August 2015) : Legacies of British Colonial Violence: Viewing Kenyan Detention Camps thro...

To many readers, this is old news, but I don't think we've officially announced it yet. Dylan Penningroth , formerly of Northwestern...