Legal History Blog

Nathan S. Chapman, University of Georgia School of Law, has posted Money for Missionaries: Rethinking Establishment Clause History : In E...

David S. Schwartz, University of Wisconsin Law School , has posted An Error and an Evil: The Strange History of Implied Commerce Powers , wh...

Back in 2017, Yun Xia (Valparaiso University) published Down with Traitors: Justice and Nationalism in Wartime China with the University o...

Keith E. Whittington, Princeton University, has posted A Formidable Weapon of Faction? The Law and Politics of Impeachment , which is forthc...

Next in our Scholar Spotlight series is  Mia Korpiola, University of Turku.  Prof. Korpiola was one of three female contributors to the re...

James E. Pfander, Northwestern University School of Law , has posted Dicey's Nightmare: An Essay on the Rule of Law , which is forthcomi...

Back in 2017, Will Hanley (Florida State University) published Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandr...

The Law & Political Economy blog has been running a series (called " 1LPE ") on what it would mean to teach courses in the f...

Via the Western History Association 's Twitter feed, we've learned that legal historian Julian Lim (Arizona State University) has ...

Clark D. Cunningham, Georgia State University College of Law , and J esse Egbert, Northern Arizona University , have posted Scientific Metho...

Lisset Marie Pino , a student at the Yale Law School, and John Fabian Witt , a professor at the Yale Law School, have posted The Fourteenth ...

Blake Emerson, UCLA Law School, has published The Public's Law: Origins and Architecture of Progressive Democracy (Oxford University P...

[We have word a new exhibit at the Harvard Law Library: Creating Community: Harvard Law School and the Bauhaus .] 2019 marks the centennia...

[We have word of the following workshop.]  EuroStorie and Institut für Neuere Privatrechtsgeschichte, Deutsche und Rheinische Rechtsgeschich...

My research for Colonizing Consent opened up far more questions than I could reasonably answer in the space of one book.   Like m...

Our Scholar Spotlight series continues, today featuring Sara McDougall, John Jay College and CUNY  Graduate Center.  In our first interview...

Recently out from Yale University Press: A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica (2018), by Brooke N. Newman (Virginia...

Back in 2017, Alice Rio (King's College London) published Slavery After Rome, 500-1100 with Oxford University Press. From the publish...

Julian Davis Mortenson, University of Michigan Law School , has posted Article II Vests Executive Power, Not the Royal Prerogative ,which is...

Earlier this fall we noted that only three of the fifty contributors to Oxford Handbook of European Legal History were women. Knowing th...

[We have the following announcement. of a call for nominations for the Peter Gonville Stein Book Award of the American Society for Legal His...

We have the following Call for Papers: The Lost Alternatives of the Long 1960s: Reflections on the Ideas of the “Counterculture”  We se...

Peter L. Larson, University of Central Florida , has published "Widow-right in Durham, England (1349-1660)" in Continuity and Ch...

The latest " AHR interview " is with Bianca Premo and Yanna Yannakakis , on their forthcoming American Historical Review articl...

[We have the following CFP.] Poverty in America: The Past, Present, and Future, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, 10-11...

[We have the following announcement.  Due date: February 15.] Northwestern’s Center for Legal Studies is pleased to continue a collaborat...