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John M. Breen, Loyola University Chicago School of Law , and Lee J. Strang, University of Toledo College of Law , have posted The Golden Age...

New from Harvard University Press: Legislating Instability: Adam Smith, Free Banking, and the Financial Crisis of 1772 (2016), by Tyler Bec...

[We have the following call for papers.] British Legal History Conference 2017 – Networks and Connections Wednesday 5 July 2017 – Saturda...

New from the Southern Illinois University Press: An Indispensable Liberty: The Fight for Free Speech in Nineteenth-Century America Paperback...

Henry S. Cohn , Connecticut Superior Court , and Adam Tarr has posted The Prosecutor Called Them "Insurance Company Wreckers": Th...

The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution (ed. Sujit Choudhry, Madhav Khosla, and Pratap Bhanu Mehta) is just out. From the publisher...

James W. Ely Jr., Vanderbilt University Law School , has posted a pre-publication draft of The Contract Clause during the Civil War and Reco...

Writing for JOTWELL's Legal History Section, Reuel Schiller (UC Hastings) has posted an admiring review of an article by Susan J. Pears...

Your Humble Blogger with Marver Bernstein Today is my last day at the Law and Public Affairs Program at Princeton University , where I ...

This week's book roundup includes an eclectic mix of reviews: In The New York Times, Steve Hahn asks whether we need "Another boo...

Although we somehow missed the event until now, you an still watch the video of Justice Louis D. Brandeis: Celebrating the 100th Anniversa...

This one is gated, but too interesting not to note: Thomas J. Kehoe and E. James Kehoe, Crimes Committed by U.S. Soldiers in Europe, 1945–19...

Michael Goebel, Freie Universit ät Berlin has published   Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalis...

On Monday, May 16, 2016, 4:00pm - 5:30pm, in the 6th Floor Moynihan Boardroom of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Halbe...

Vivek Swaroop Sharma, Pomona College , has posted Bureaucracy, Administration and Authority: European State Formation Reconsidered : This ...

John Waugh, Melbourne Law School , has posted The Judges and Their Court 1852–1900 , which is forthcoming in Judging for the People: A Socia...

Andrea McDowell ( credit ) Congratulations to Seton Hall Law Professor Andrea McDowell upon being named a 2016 Fellow by the John Simo...

Hey, all you dissertation advisors and recent PhDs -- don't forget to submit dissertations to the ASLH Cromwell Dissertation Prize Comm...

Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery by Margaret Ellen Newell of Ohio State University ...

Portal to the Past ( credit ) Last month I was very fortunate to be able to participate–if only over the phone–in a meeting of committee...

Sexual Violation in Islamic Law: Substance, Evidence, and Procedure  by Hina Azam of the University of Texas at Austin (Cambridge 2015) is...

Credit: HLS In yet another change here at Legal History Blog, Tomiko Brown-Nagin , Harvard Law School , is leaving our ranks to concentr...

New from Princeton University Press: On British Islam: Religion, Law, and Everyday Practice in Shariʿa Councils , by John R. Bowen ( Washin...

[Via H-Law , we have the following announcement.] State Socialism, Legal Experts and the Genesis of International Criminal and Humanitaria...

Former LHB Guest Blogger Emily Kadens, Northwestern University School of La w, has recently posted two essays.  The first is Custom's P...

New from Oxford University Press: Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America , by Kali Nicole...

Hope you enjoy this round-up of some book reviews of interest for legal historians.  It's my first time writing this, so please leave ...

The 2016 Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History was held at the Newberry Library in Chicago on April 8. Organized by Jane Ohl...

Victoria Saker Woeste (ABF) Congratulations to the legal historian (and LHB Guest Blogger )  Victoria Saker Woeste (right) for winning...

Camden Hutchison , a Columbia JD who is a graduate student in the University of Wisconsin ’s history department, has posted Law and Economic...

Eric M. Adams, University of Alberta Faculty of Law , has posted The Dean Who Went to Law School: Crossing Borders and Searching for Purpose...