Legal History Blog

As regular readers know, JOTWELL's Legal History section is a great source for identifying must-read work in our field. Lately I've ...

[This is the second of two posts on film & pedagogy. The first is on US legal history.] Credit: IMDb What films (and film cli...

Legal historians have been speaking out in the wake of violent white supremacist demonstrations in Charlottesville: Risa Goluboff , dean o...

"The annual ASLH election is now in progress," announces a notice that's just up on the website of the American Society for Le...

[This is the first of two posts on film & pedagogy. The second is on global and non-US legal history.] Credit: IMDb What film...

Kenneth Mori McElwain, an associate professor at the University of Tokyo ’s Institute of Social Science, has published a substantial piece ...

Catherine Bond, University of New South Wales , has posted ' Through the Dreadful Circumstances of Fate, a Broken Man’: Anton Reznicek, ...

War, Law, and Restraint , that panel organized by LHB Founder and SHAFR President Mary Dudziak at this summer’s annual meeting of the at th...

Wong Kim Ark ( wiki ) The new episode of the Washington Post ’s podcast, Constitutional, centered on Wong Kim Ark (1898), is available ...

Robert Brauneis, George Washington University Law School , has posted Parodies, Photocopies, Recusals, and Alternate Copyright Histories: Th...

Steven A. Bank, UCLA School of Law , has posted When Did Tax Avoidance Become Respectable? which is forthcoming in the Tax Law Review: No...

Jud Campbell, University of Richmond School of Law , has posted Natural Rights and the First Amendment , which is forthcoming in the Yale La...

How should you entertain yourself this summer weekend?  Well I don't know . . . this blog can only provide so much!  But you're w...

From the Washington Post 's " Made by History " Section: Max Felker-Kantor (DePauw University) on " How the Olympics ac...

More good news from the hiring front: Adnan Zulfiqar has joined the faculty at Rutgers-Camden as Assistant Professor of Law. Cribbing from...

In light of the deep connections between social history and legal history, this Call for Papers may be of interest: Social Histories of ...

More hiring news: Mary X. Mitchell has joined the history department at Purdue University as an assistant professor. From the Purdue websit...

We've learned of a special issue of SOLON: Journal of Law, Crime & History   7:1 (2017) on " The Child at Risk in Modern Brita...

More good news from the hiring front: Anna Lvovsky has joined the faculty at Harvard Law School as an Assistant Professor of Law. Cribbing ...

[We have the following, updated information on the Franklin Research Grant program of the American Philosophical Society .] Scope: This p...

Kif Augustine-Adams, Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School , has posted, in Spanish, By a Single Vote: Quong Fat and Chinese A...

Here's some news from the hiring front: Daniel Farbman has just joined the faculty at Boston College as an Assistant Professor of Law....

New from the University of Wisconsin Press: Wisconsin and the Shaping of American Law , by Joseph A. Ranney (Marquette University Law Schoo...

CJ John Marshall ( LC ) Aditya Bamzai, University of Virginia Law , has posted Marbury v. Madison and the Concept of Judicial Deference...

More legal history news from Vanderbilt : the History Department is launching a new undergraduate major in legal history, titled "Law,...

David J. Brennan, Swinburne Law School , has posted The First Compulsory Licensing of Patents and Copyright , which is forthcoming in Legal ...

Last year the Vanderbilt History Department began a legal history speaker series/colloquium , sponsored by the Vanderbilt College of Arts a...

New from Vanderbilt University Press: A Courageous Fool: Marie Deans and Her Struggle against the Death Penalty , by Todd C. Peppers (Roano...

Edward Balleisen's Fraud: An American History From Barnum to Madoff is reviewed in The Atlantic. The Guardian carries a review of ...

From the Take Care blog, Saul Cornell (Fordham) on " Slavery and the Right to Travel Armed: A Short History Lesson ." The AS...

Although we often don’t note gated articles, we’re making an exception for Becoming Cleopatra: The Forgotten Zionism of Raphael Lemkin , by ...

John R. Vile, Middle Tennessee State University , published the revised 2nd edition of the 2-volume reference work,  The Constitutional C...

Simon Chesterman, National University of Singapore Faculty of Law , has posted The Fall and Rise of Legal Education in Singapore , which is ...

George K. Yin, University of Virginia School of Law , has posted Codification of the Tax Law and the Emergence of the Staff of the Joint Com...