Legal History Blog

Suzanna Sherry, Vanderbilt University Law School , has posted The Imaginary Constitution , which is her contribution to a symposium on ...

We have, much too belatedly, noticed the publication of Scottish Legal History: Volume 1: 1000-1707 , by Andrew R. C. Simpson and Adelyn ...

New from the University of North Carolina Press: The Criminalization of Black Children: Race, Gender, and Delinquency in Chicago’s Juvenile ...

John Mikhail, Georgetown University Law Center , has posted A Tale of Two Sweeping Clauses , which is forthcoming in the Harvard Journal of ...

Greg Reilly, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law , has posted Our 19th Century Patent System , from IP Theory 7:2( 2018): One’s view of the p...

[As in previous years, the annual meeting of the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) to be held September 26-29 in Kan...

Aditi Bagchi, Fordham Law , reviews Anne Fleming ’s City of Debtors: A Century of Fringe Finance , on Jotwell.  “Fleming ably guides us th...

Deborah Dinner, Emory University School of Law , has posted Vulnerability as a Category of Historical Analysis: Initial Thoughts in Tribute ...

Nicola Giocoli, University of Pisa ,has posted Neither Populist Nor Neoclassical: The Classical Roots of the Competition Principle in Americ...

Dennis G. Molinaro, Trent University published An Exceptional Law: Section 98 and the Emergency State, 1919-1936 with the University of ...

[We have word of the publication in Spanish and as a free download of the second of two issues of volume 13 (July-December 2018) of Revista...

Johanna Ransmeier, University of Chicago has published Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China with Harvard University P...

Our faithful assistant, Google Alert, has brought to our attention the posting of a page proof of Administrative Answers to Major Questions:...

Steven J. Macias (Southern Illinois University School of Law) has posted " Utilitarian Constitutionalism: A Comparison of Bentham ...

We missed this one in 2016.  Agents of Terror: Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin's Secret Police by   Alexander Vatlin...

Richard Primus, University of Michigan Law School , has posted The Republic in Long-Term Perspective , which is forthcoming in the Michigan ...

New from Southern Illinois University Press: The Greatest and the Grandest Act: The Civil Rights Act of 1866 from Reconstruction to Today (M...

In Dissent is a review of Quinn Slobodian's  Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism . How We Get Free: Black F...

We are very sorry to learn of the death of Morton Keller, Professor Emeritus of History , Brandeis University .  We have the following stat...

Over at Administrative Law Blog, Cynthia Farid , a doctoral candidate at the U niversity of Wisconsin Law School , has posted Administrati...

[We’re reposting, as the deadline for ASLH/Cromwell Foundation Grants to Early Career Scholars has just been extended to July 20 .  C’mon, f...

Last June, the conference Law, Empire, and Global Intellectual History was held at Heidelberg University. The journal Modern Intellectua...

The special issue of Asian Affairs  carrying papers from the conference on Religious Freedom in South Asia  is now available here . Many...

[We have the following announcement.] The Italian Society of Law and Economics (SIDE-ISLE) welcomes submissions of papers on any topic rega...

New from New York University Press: Ages of Anxiety: Historical and Transnational Perspectives on Juvenile Justice , edited by William S. B...

Julie C. Suk, Yeshiva University Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, has posted Gender Equality and the Protection of Motherhood in Global C...

The Docket, the American Society for Legal History ’s on-line companion to Law & History Review , is seeking to build a syllabus reposi...

Patrick Olivelle and Donald R. Davis , both of the University of Texas at Austin , have published the co-edited volume,  The Oxford Histor...

[ The following announcement is the first time we've heard of a grant by a state historical society to a law school to support the pres...

Amnon Lehavi, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliyah , Radzyner School of Law , has posted Re-Romanticizing Commons and Community in Israeli Dis...

The Journal of Legal History , 39:2 (2018) is now available online .  The first article, by Donal Coffey, is “gold access”–that is, downl...

We’ve previously noted articles on the drafting of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure’s provision on class action by Malveaux , Engstrom ,...

[Congratulations to Suffolk Law and Professor Braatz on the following hiring announcement.] Erin Braatz (Credit: Jennifer Waddell) Eri...

From the New York Times : Reva Siegel (Yale Law School) on the future of legal abortion : "With Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s retirem...

We’re assuming that "Successful Public Governance," a new book series at Edward Elgar, is aimed mostly at scholars fo public admin...