Legal History Blog

A notice for the conference "La morte nel prisma criminale (19th-20th centuries)" (Benevento, September 21-22, 2015) appears in t...

We missed this announcement back in February: legal historian Lauren Benton , formerly of NYU, has moved to Vanderbilt University, to serve...

We've just noticed that the ASLH's website for the 2015 annual meeting in Washington includes a link to a paper circulated in advanc...

The University of North Carolina Press has released Family Bonds: Free Blacks and Re-enslavement Law in Antebellum Virginia (April 2015), ...

Ian Klaus's Forging Capitalism: Rogues, Swindlers, Frauds and the Rise of Modern Finance  (Yale University Press) is reviewed on H-Net....

[We're posting the following message from ASLH Treasurer Craig Klafter, which arrived in our in-boxes today.] I write to encourage you...

The Historical Presidency series of the Miller Center for Public Affairs continues Friday, September 18, from 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m., with D...

That’s the title of an interesting post over at Balkinization by LHB Founder Mary Dudziak on a series of posts by David Langbart of the ...

[There’s no topping Mike Widener, Rare Book Librarian & Lecturer in Legal Research at the Yale Law School, for timeliness.   Here, via ...

[We have the following announcement.] The Institute for Political History, the Journal of Policy History , and the Peabody College of Va...

Christian G. Samito , has published Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment in the Concise Lincoln Library Series of the Southern Illinois U...

Some time ago, I reported on Crowell v. Benson , 285 U.S. 22 (1932), as viewed from the docket books of Justices Pierce Butler and Owen Rob...

[We have the following announcement.] Programme of the “ Using the past: Romanists, totalitarianism and its legacy ” conference Villa L...

[We have the following announcement.] Fall 2015 Legal History Workshop, University of Minnesota, Professor Susanna Blumenthal September 24...

Seth Barrett Tillman (National University of Ireland, Maynooth) has posted " Ex Parte Merryman: Myth, History, and Scholarship ."...

The preliminary program for the 2015 annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History, to be held in Washington, DC, next month, is ...

Alas! The holiday weekend has come to an end; the fall semester is upon us. But cheer up! We aim to lift your spirits and facilitat...

Eric M. Ruben (New York University Brennan Center for Justice) and Saul A. Cornell (Fordham University) have posted " Firearm Regiona...

The Federal Lawyer  has a new issue, with several book reviews of note. Benjamin H. Barton's Glass Half Full: The Decline and Rebirth of...

Paul Finkelman , emeritus, Albany Law School , will give the address The Constitution and the 14th Amendment: Defining Citizenship ,  Thurs...

New from New York University Press: Beyond Deportation: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases (June 2015), by Shoba Siv...