Legal History Blog

Sanjay Ruparelia, New School for Social Research, Department of Politics , has posted A Progressive Juristocracy? The Unexpected Social Acti...

[ Via H-Law , we have the following announcement.  Note the deadline of July 29 .] The 35th Annual Australia and New Zealand Law and Histo...

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

It’s the official publication date for Making Modern Florida: How the Spirit of Reform Shaped a New State Constitution (University Press of...

Congratulations to legal historian Elizabeth L. Hillman , late of UC Hastings Law , who earlier this month began her tenure as the fourteent...

Daniel J. Hulsebosch, New York University School of Law , has posted a very nice article from his backlist, Writs to Rights: 'Navigabili...

Samuel Moyn, Harvard University , has posted From Aggression to Atrocity: Rethinking the History of International Criminal Law , which is fo...

New from Louisiana State University Press: Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America , by Robin C. Sager (University of Evansville). A descript...

This week's roundup is heterogenous and lengthy - hopefully there's something for legal historians of all stripes. In this week...

 SCOTUSblogger Andrew Hamm has a nice post on the Holmes Devise and the series' new editor , Maeva Marcus .  H/t: BS  Over at the...

Richard A. Danner , the Rufty Research Professor of Law and Senior Associate Dean for Information Services at the Duke University School of ...

[We have the following announcement.] With Spatial and Temporal Dimensions for Legal History. Research Experiences and Itineraries , the M...

New from Cambridge University Press: Targeted Killing : A Legal and Political History (May 2016), by Markus Gunneflo ( Lunds Universitet, ...

Earlier this year, Anna Su, University of Toronto , published  Exporting Freedom: Religious Liberty and American Power   (Harvard Universi...

New from the University of Virginia Press: Gun Culture in Early Modern England (May 2016), by Lois G. Schwoerer ( George Washington Univers...

New from Ohio University Press: Marriage by Force? Contestation over Consent and Coercion in Africa , edited by Annie Bunting (York Univers...

[We have the following announcement of a research fellowship in the field of European Administrative History.  Note the deadline of Septembe...

New from the University of Missouri Press: John Henry Wigmore and the Rules of Evidence: The Hidden Origins of Modern Law (May 2016), by A...

David S. Turk, Historian of the US Marshals Service is coming out with Forging the Star: The Official Modern History of the United States...

Paul P. Craig, University of Oxford Faculty of Law , has posted The Legitimacy of US Administrative Law and the Foundations of English Admin...

The June issue of the Journal of American History is now out. One article that is sure to interest many of our readers is " William W...

Legal historian Rise Goluboff becomes the University of Virginia School of Law' s first female dean.  UVA's press release is here ...

Independence Day is probably big for legal history buffs.  But if you're not reading  (or watching ) themed content, you might enjoy th...

The Law and Society Association has launched a new Teaching Materials Repository, which is accessible to LSA members (via "Teaching...

Joel Stanford Hays has posted Twisting the Law: Legal Inconsistencies in Andrew Jackson's Treatment of Native-American Sovereignty and ...

Over at Baseline Scenario, James Kwak , an associate professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law , has posted a thoughtful revi...

Mark Brown , Melbourne University , published Penal Power and Colonial Rule (Routledge) back in 2014 . From the publisher: This book p...

[Re-posting to remind readers of the upcoming deadline ( July 8 ). Graduate students, please apply! And graduate student advisors, please e...

Histories of Transnational Crime (Springer, 2015) edited by Gerben Bruinsma, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcem...

Eleanor Marie Brown , George Washington University Law School , has posted On the Evolution of Property Ownership Among Former Slaves, Newly...

[We recently noted the publication of El Nacimiento del Derecho Administrativo Patrio de Chile , by Gabriel Bocksang Hola , Profesor de Der...

Taisu Zhang (Yale Law School) has posted " Cultural Paradigms in Property Institutions ," a comparative historical piece that is...

BackStory , a radio show and podcast by Ed Ayers, Brian Balogh , and Peter Onuf , recently posted the episode Above The Fray? Ideology &...