Legal History Blog

[We have the following call for papers.] On the Origins of International Legal Thought. Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University...

The American Historical Association has announced its 2018 Research Grant Winners . Of particular interest to readers of this blog is the ...

[We have the following announcement.] The Law and Society Association ’s Dissertation Prize is awarded annually to a dissertation written ...

“Two retired judges of the Supreme Court of Canada say 50 years is too long to seal internal court documents revealing the communications...

Andrew Kent, Fordham University School of Law , has posted Congress and the Independence of Federal Law Enforcement , which is forthcoming i...

James Durling , a student at the Yale Law School , has posted The District of Columbia and Article III : Today, nearly everyone assumes th...

Scott L. Cummings, UCLA School of Law , has posted Law and Social Movements: Reimagining the Progressive Canon , which is forthcoming in the...

Tembeka Ngcukaitobi has published The Land is Ours: Black Lawyers and the Birth of Constitutionalism in South Africa with Penguin Random H...

Do I want my story to have a happy ending or a sad ending? As I was completing The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Er...

[We’ve received the following announcement of the conference Key Biographies in the Legal History of European Union, 1950-1993 , to take pla...

From the Association for Documentary Editing website : The Harvard Law School Library seeks an experienced, collaborative, and service-o...

We're delighted to learn that Robert W Gordon, Stanford Law schoo l, has won the Stanton Wheeler Mentorship Award of the Law and Societ...

Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Harvard Law School , has posted The Devil's Daughter of Hell Fire: Anger's Role in Medieval English Felony Ca...

[We have the following CFP.] The American Society for Legal History invites paper submissions from graduate students and early-career scho...

James E. Baldwin (Royal Holloway, University of London ) published Islamic Law and Empire in Ottoman Cairo with Oxford University Press ...

Kevin Arlyck ( credit ) I’m very pleased to announce that Kevin Arlyck will be joining Georgetown Law ’s faculty this fall as an Ass...

From JOTWELL's Legal History section comes an admiring review of K. Sabeel Rahman 's Democracy Against Domination (Oxford Universi...

Mathias M. Siems, Durham University Law School, has posted Malicious Legal Transplants, which is forthcoming in Legal Studies 38 (2018): 1...

Marco Duranti, University of Sydney , published The Conservative Human Rights Revolution with Oxford University Press in 2017. From the ...

Patrick Russell Goold , Qualcomm Fellow at the Harvard Law Schoo l, has posted The Lost Tort of Moral Rights Invasion , which is forthcoming...

[From the ASLH website .] The American Society for Legal History will be having its 48th annual meeting in Houston, Texas from November 8...

[We have the following announcement.] 2018 Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award Winners: Michael Widener & Mark S. Weiner authored...

William Boyd, University of Colorado Law School , has posted Just Price, Public Utility, and the Long History of Economic Regulation in Amer...

Josh Howard ’s Defending Person and Reputation: Efforts to End Extralegal Violence in Western Virginia, 1890-1900 , is now available online ...

New from the University of Pennsylvania Press: Strange Bedfellows: Marriage in the Age of Women's Liberation , by Alison Lefkovitz  (New...

Donal K. Coffey , Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History , has just published Drafting the Irish Constituti...

Congratulations to my UC Berkeley colleague Dylan Penningroth , who is among the American Council for Learned Society 's 2018-19 class o...

Law and History Review 36:2 is out.  After a preface by editor Gautham Rao and with book reviews by Paul J. du Plessis, Taisu Zhang, Malic...

Yesterday the American Bar Foundation held its annual United States Legal History Roundtable at the ABF.  The papers were: Kate Masur, No...

Congratulations to Linda Przybyszewski , Notre Dame University , for winning the 2017 Hughes-Gossett Award of the Supreme Court Historical ...

Victor Li , an assistant managing editor with the ABA Journal, has published Nixon in New York: How Wall Street Helped Richard Nixon Win the...

This may sound strange, but in The Sit-Ins I wrote a book whose protagonist is a constitutional claim. The student activists are the heroe...

Jason W. Yackee, University of Wisconsin Law School , has posted Protecting the French Investor Abroad: Expropriation, Diplomacy, and Sugar ...