Legal History Blog

[We have a call the call for papers for Resistance in History: From Transgression to Transformation , a graduate student conference to be co...

Available on-line from the Buffalo Law Review 65 (August 2017): 657-737, is  The Decline of the Lawyer-Politician , by Nick Robinson .  Alt...

Two new articles in Law and History Review are now available on-line via Cambridge Core: Law, Custom, and Social Norms: Civil Adjudicatio...

[We have the following announcement.] The American Society for Legal History announces the Peter Gonville Stein Book Award, to be presen...

Gerard N. Magliocca , the Samuel R. Rosen Professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law , has published T he Heart o...

Just out from Springer is Magna Carta and New Zealand: History, Politics and Law in Aotearoa , an essay collection edited by Stephen Winter ...

Uditi Sen, Hampshire College has published "Developing Terra Nullius: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Indigeneity in the Andaman Island...

Out any moment from Cambridge University Press is American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the “New Competition,” 1890–...

Intisar Rabb, Harvard University , and Abigail Krasner Balbale, Bard Graduate Center have co-edited a volume,  Justice and Leadership in Ea...

David Singh Grewal (Yale Law School) and Jedediah S. Purdy (Duke University School of Law) have posted " The Original Theory of Origi...

The December 2017 issue of the American Journal of Legal History is up on its website at the Oxford University Press.  Alfred Brophy , one...

[We have the following announcement.] Annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop, 23-24 February 2018, Princeton University Co-Organi...

[We have the following Call for Papers.] Key Biographies in the Legal History of European Union 1950-1993 Frankfurt/Main, 21-22 June 2018 ...

Jessica Marglin, USC Dornsife , has published the following article : "Written and Oral in Islamic Law: Documentary Evidence and Non-M...

Jeffrey Steven Gordon , Associate-in-Law, Columbia Law School , has posted Our Equity: Federalism and Chancery , which appears in the Univer...

[We have the following announcement of a Racial Inequality Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University .  The deadline is January 29...

First Graders Saluting the Flag, 1942 ( LC ) Perhaps you, like me, have been unaware of the growing set of materials on Famous Federal T...

The American Society for Legal History will host a Student Research Colloquium (SRC) on Wednesday, Nov. 7, and Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, imm...

Gregory Ablavsky, Stanford Law Schoo l, has posted "With the Indian Tribes": Race, Citizenship, and Original Constitutional Meanin...

Comparative legal historians often confront an existential question: "what does your comparison add?"  The majority of legal hist...

There are quite a few books of interest in this week's review pages: In the London Review of Books Eric Foner reviews James E. Lewis ...

The Cornell Chronicle chronicled Juridical Colonialism, International Law and the Ottoman Response , a lecture by Mostafa Minawi , assist...

John Maurice Beatti e: Giant of British legal history taught at U of T for 35 years , an appreciation of Professor Beattie, is now up on the...

Carolina Academic Press recently published Law and the Holocaust by Michael J. Bazyler, Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law , a...

Andre LeDuc has posted Striding Out of Babel: Originalism, its Critics, and the Promise of Our American Constitution , which appears in the...

Mario Cajas, Universidad Icesi , Colombia, has published Judicial Review of Constitutional Amendments in Colombia: A Political and Historica...

And, while we’re on the subject, we might as well mention that Making Habeas Work: A Legal History , by Eric M. Freedman, Hofstra Law, is d...

Amanda L. Tyler, University of California, Berkeley School of Law , has published Habeas Corpus in Wartime: From the Tower of London to Guan...

[We're moving this post up because the deadline for submissions is tomorrow .] [We have the following call for papers.] The Institut...

The National History Center yesterday sent out a list of its panels at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association next mont...

We have word of a “late-breaking session” at the American Historical Association annual meeting in Washington, D.C. on January 5, 3:30-5:00,...

Comparative Studies in Society and History has come out with an online discussion,  Priorities of Law: A Conversation with Judith Scheele...