Legal History Blog

One of the issues that habitually frustrates me is the disconnect between historians who work on the colonial period and those who speci...

This is a cool one: a senior history major-- Denton Ong --made it into the Washington Post 's "Made by History" section, wit...

We are very sorry to learn of the death of the legal historian Henry Horwitz of the University of Iowa .  From Jeff Cox’s story, Celebratin...

The Center for the Study of Law and Society  at the University of California, Berkeley, has posted the lineup for its speaker series this s...

James Loeffler, University of Virginia , has published Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and human rights in the twentieth century   with Yale Uni...

Earl Maltz, Rutgers Law School , has posted The Coming of the Fifteenth Amendment: the Republican Party and the Right to Vote in the Early R...

Recently, I returned from a visit to the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt ( https://www.rg.mpg.de/en ), wher...