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Gabriel "Jack" Chin and John Ormonde , respectively, a professor and student at the University of California, Davis School of Law ...

Ben Brockman-Hawe , an independent scholar, has posted Punishing Warmongers for Their 'Mad and Criminal Projects' - Bismarck's P...

The American Society for Legal History will host a Student Research Colloquium (SRC) on Wednesday, October 25, and Thursday, October 26, 20...

Last week, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded 173 Guggenheim Fellowships "to a diverse g...

More lateral hiring news : Samuel Moyn will join the faculty at Yale Law School this fall. Moyn is currently the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Pro...

More lateral hiring news: we have word that Brad Snyder is leaving the University of Wisconsin Law School for Georgetown University Law ...

More lateral hiring news:  Lolita Buckner Inniss is reportedly leaving Cleveland-Marshall College of Law for Southern Methodist University...

The season for lateral hiring is upon us, and legal historians are among those on the move . We have learned that Binyamin Blum , currently...

Thomas B. Bennett, Kellogg, Huber [et al.]; Barry Friedman, New York University School of Law ; Andrew D. Martin, University of Michigan ; a...

The 111th annual meeting of the American Society of International Law commences tomorrow, Wednesday, April 12, 2017, with the nineteenth a...

Gabriel "Jack" Chin and John Ormonde , respectively, a professor and student at the University of California, Davis School of Law ...

[Whitelocke Publications Limited has alerted us to their publication of three works of Maltese legal and constitutional history.] Raymond M...

I wanted to post a final note at the end of my guest blogging stint here at LHB. I am appreciative for the opportunity to write about some...

Lea S. VanderVelde, University of Iowa College of Law, has posted Henry Wilson: Cobbler of the Frayed Constitution, Strategist of the Thirt...

The Organization of American Historians has announced its book prizes.  The whole list is here .  Of special interest to legal historians a...

Just out in Law and Social Inquiry is The American Revolution and Christine Desan's New History of Money , by Andrew David Edwards , a ...

Andrew Kent, Fordham University School of Law , has posted The Jury and Empire: The Insular Cases and the Anti-Jury Movement in the Gilded ...

[ We’ve previously noted the new website at the Federal Judicial History Center.  Clara Altman , the Director of the Federal Judicial Hist...

The VU Amsterdam Summer School is offering a summer course on Laws in Antiquity: Law and Legal Systems from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Rome and B...

Congratulations to the legal historian Lewis Grossman , Washington College of Law , American University , on his being named a Law and Publi...

An English-language version of Thieves in Court: The Making of the German Legal System in the Nineteenth Century by Rebekka Habermas, Geor...

Camden Hutchison , currently dissertating at the University of Wisconsin-Madison but as of this summer a member of the law faculty of the Un...

Working historically almost always implies some sort of critical position on past scholarship. Hardly any topic of investigation is fully n...

[We note the following release of the Federal Judicial Center.  H/t: Chris Beauchamp and Karen Tani.] The history and workings of the U.S...

Earlier we noted my Georgetown Law colleague Wallace Mlyniec ’s appreciation of Clinton Bamberger , who, among other things, directed ...

The Stanford Center for Law and History , directed by Professor Amalia Kessler, has selected Elizabeth D. Katz as its inaugural fellow .  ...

We missed this one back in 2015. Nancy E. van Deusen, Queen’s University , published Global Indios: The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in...

Here is Jonathan Gienapp 's reply to Randy Barnett 's response to Professor Gienapp's original post .

One major shift in modern anthropology occurred when the discipline “ came home .” By the mid-20th century the neat division between sociol...

Joel K. Goldstein, St. Louis University School of Law , has published History and Constitutional Interpretation: Some Lessons from the Vice ...

Ebru Aykut, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University published an article on poisoning in Ottoman legal history back in 2016. Here is the abstract...

We're behind on our announcement of JOTWELL reviews of interest. Here are a bunch: Earlier this month Christopher Schmidt (IIT Chica...

“Originalism requires that the Constitution be a type of document literally beyond the capacity and purpose of the framers,” writes Mary Sar...

Out soon from Edward Elgar is The Timing of Lawmaking , ed. Frank Fagan, EDHEC Business School , and Saul Levmore , University of Chicago La...

Although it won't ship until April 5, you can now pre-order what a Kirkus reviewer calls "an accessible, lucid brief on how our Su...

We recently mentioned the new journal, Buddhism, Law & Society . Here is a legal history article from its inaugural issue: Dorothea Heu...

Marie-Amelie George , currently a fellow at Columbia Law School and soon to be the Berger-Howe fellow at Harvard Law School, has posted two...

We hear that the Chicago-area Legal History Workshop will meet Wednesday, April 5, at 4pm, at the American Bar Foundation , 750 N. Lake Sho...

One of the ever-impressive aspects of working on transnational legal history is encountering the careers of many pioneering international la...

Pierre Schlag, University of Colorado Law School , has posted Hohfeldian Analysis, Liberalism and Adjudication (Some Tensions) , forthcoming...