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[And that’s not all from our friends at Boston College !] We invite you to join us on Thursday, Feb. 16 at 4:30 , in the Rare Book Room of...

[Our friends at Boston College sent us the following announcement.] We are pleased to announce the opening of the spring exhibit in the Dan...

Here is another Commonwealth title we missed from The Federation Press in 2015: a volume edited by   Griffith University' s  Karen Sch...

New from Ohio University Press: The Jacksonian Conservatism of Rufus P. Ranney: The Politics and Jurisprudence of a Northern Democrat from t...

Dali L. Yang, University of Chicago , has posted China’s Illiberal Regulatory State in Comparative Perspective , which is forthcoming in the...

Good morning, legal historians.  Enjoy these book reviews. The New York Times reviews Joshua Kurlantzick’s A Great Place to Ha...

On Tuesday, February 14 , between noon and 1:30pm, with lunch provided, the Harvard Law School Library staff and the Harvard Law School Eas...

From the Washington Post : "America got a civics lesson Tuesday night when Senate Republicans used an obscure rule to shut down a spe...

The State Historical Society of Iowa (SHSI) announces a grant program for the 2017/2018 academic year. SHSI will award up to ten stipends o...

Vincent Chetail, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies , has posted Sovereignty and Migration in the Doctrine of the L...

John D. Bessler, University of Baltimore School of Law, has published The Death Penalty as Torture: From the Dark Ages to Abolition , with t...

New from Dartmouth College Press: Enemies of All Humankind: Fictions of Legitimate Violence (2017), by Sonja Schillings ( Justus Liebig Un...

David A. Skeel, Jr., University of Pennsylvania Law School , has posted The Empty Idea of "Equality of Creditors” : For two hundred y...

Writing for JOTWELL's Legal History Section, K. Sabeel Rahman (Brooklyn Law School) has posted a review of Liberty and Coercion: The ...

We're catching up on a few titles published in Commonwealth countries back in 2015. Here's the first—from Federation Press, Milita...

Alfred L. Brophy, University of North Carolina School of Law , has posted Black Power in a Prison Library : Credit “Black Power in a P...

Miranda Johnson, University of Sydney has published The Land Is Our History: Indigeneity, Law, and the Settler State with Oxford Univer...

[We have the following announcement .] The National History Center will hold a Congressional briefing on the history of executive orders ...

Brad Snyder, University of Wisconsin School of Law , has just published The House of Truth: A Washington Political Salon and the Foundations...

Historians affiliated with the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota and the Immigration and Ethnic History ...

Gerard N. Magliocca, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law , has posted A Faction of One: Revisiting Madison's Notes on th...

David Bernstein, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School , has posted The History Of ‘Substantive’ Due Process: It's Complicat...

[The Organization of American Historians' recent mailing to members on its 2017 meeting in New Orleans highlights the following plenary...

Yale University Press has released The Face That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits: The American Women Who Forged a Right to Privacy (Nov. 2016)...

[The following notice of an new exhibit at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library arrived in our mailbox today.] On February 19, 2017–the 75th...

Via H-Law, we have the following Call for Papers : Rethinking the World Order: International Law and International Relations at the ...

Dennis Whelan, Villanova University , has posted Hayburn's Case from Hayburn's Perspective: The Failure of the First United States ...

(We’re not sure you’re in the mood for whimsy right now, but here goes.)  From former LHB guest blogger Mark S. Weiner we learn of the openi...

A timely release from Oxford University Press: The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954 (Dec. 2016), ...

[We are moving this post up and adding a link to the finalized program , which we've just received.] [We have the following announceme...

Via H-Law, we have the following Call for Papers : Governance and Rights. Law, Religion, and Sexuality in Caribbean Literature and Cultur...