Legal History Blog

Frederick W. Dingledy, College of William & Mary Law Library , has posted The Corpus Juris Civili s: A Guide to Its History and Use , wh...

Rafe Blaufarb , the Ben Weider Eminent Scholar Chair and Director of the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution at the Florida Stat...

The most recent issue of the Law Library Journal includes an article that may be of interest: " Third Circuit Court Reports (1789-1879...

Sarah Abrevaya Stein ( UCLA) has published Extraterritorial Dreams: European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century...

We have the following Call for Proposals: The Intimate State: Gender, Sexuality, and Governance in Modern U.S. History Call for Proposa...

Alexander Gillespie , Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Professor of Law at the University of Waikato , New Zealand, has published The Ca...

[We have the following Call for Papers.] Constitutional Responses to the Crisis of Representation and Oligarchic Democracy The deadline ...

The Washington History Seminar Spring 2017 Schedule is out .  The seminar meets at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Ro...

John D. Gordan, III , has published " This Practice Against Law": Cuban Slave Trade Cases in the Southern District of New York, 18...

Including the historical case therefor.  In Time Magazine .

Michael Douma , the director of the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics, has posted How the First Ten Amendments Becam...

Joshua E Kastenberg, University of New Mexico School of Law , has posted War Time Hysteria, 1917: Senator Miles Poindexter, "American-N...

With slight delay but without further ado, I post this week's Sunday Book Review Roundup: David Oshinsky's  Bellevue: Three Centur...

The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London invites applications for visiting scholars in 2017-18. Full details here . The Nicho...

Paul H. Robinson, University of Pennsylvania Law Schoo l, and Sarah M. Robinson , have posted 1911 – Triangle Factory Fire – Building Safet...

Harvard Today has posted a story on the lecture series, “Diversity and U.S. Legal History,” held at the Harvard Law School this semester...

[We have the following announcement of the Jack Miller Teaching and Research Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Legal Studies at Northwestern Uni...

New from the University Press of Kansas: The Contract Clause: A Constitutional History (Oct. 2016), by James W. Ely, Jr. ( Vanderbilt Unive...

New from the University Press of Colorado: Hosea Stout: Lawman, Legislator, Mormon Defender , by Stephen L. Prince (independent scholar). A ...

Melissa Murray and Karen M. Tani, University of California, Berkeley , have posted Something Old, Something New: Reflections on the Sex Bur...

     Interdisciplinarity is an idea which has became so ubiquitous in modern academic life that is it is often difficult to cabin what it e...

New from Cambridge University Press: Owning Ideas: The Intellectual Origins of American Intellectual Property, 1790–1909 , by Oren Bracha (...

My colleague Wally Mlyniec notes in an email to the Georgetown University Law Center 's faculty, in part in reference to the Georgetown...

Cambridge University ’s release on the symposium and lecture, by David Ibbetson , at the Centre for English Legal History, on the great lega...

Let's just start with a blurb on this one: "This is not your mother's legal history," writes Al Brophy. He is referring t...

From the Law and Society Association we have the following announcement: The Law and Society Association is pleased to open nominations to...

New from Springer is Bronislaw Malinowski’s Concept of Law , edited by Mateusz Stępięń , Department of Sociology of Law, Jagiellonian Univer...

Emily Kadens, Northwestern University School of Law , has posted The Admiralty Jurisdiction of the Court of Requests , which appears in Text...

Good morning--err, afternoon--legal historians. I hope you enjoy these legal history book reviews. In the NYRB, Gordon Wood  reviews  t...

Chicago-Kent notes Christopher Schmidt 's receipt of the ASLH's Surrency Prize in this press release .  Congratulations to Harv...

[The Stanford Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School announce their Tenth International Junior Faculty Forum with the foll...

Charles Donahue ( HLS ) We missed the Harvard Law School ’s conference in honor of the Charles Donahue , the Paul A. Freund Professor of...

Out this month from Bucknell University Press: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism, and the Jurisprudence of Agon: Aesthetic Dissent and t...

[We have the following announcement.] Harvard Law School invites applications for the Berger-Howe Fellowship for the academic year 2017-20...