Legal History Blog

Ziv Bohrer, Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law, has posted The (Failed) Attempt to Try the Kaiser and the Long (Forgotten) History of Intern...

John Acevedo, Alabama Law, has posted Crime Fantasies , which appeared in the American Journal of Criminal Law 46 (2019): 194-240: Tri...

Teresa Phipps (Swansea University ) has published Medieval women and urban justice: Commerce, crime and community in England, 1300-1500 w...

My book, Empires of Vice, puzzles over the anti-opium turn of European empires across Southeast Asia. For most of the 19 th century, opi...

From the American Scholar , Farah Peterson (UVA Law) on " The Patriot Slave: The dangerous myth that blacks in bondage chose not to b...

Wendy E. Parmet, Northeastern University School of Law , has posted Rediscovering Jacobson in the Era of COVID-19 , which is forthcoming in...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] Call for Papers: Imperial Artefacts. History, Law, and the Looting of Cultural Property On 28 ...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] WEBINAR: Patents on Life: Diamond v. Chakrabarty at 40 (June 17, 1pm EDT), Wednesday, June 17,...

Andrew Phang, Yihan Goh , and Jerrold Soh , Singapore Management University School of Law , have posted The Development of Singapore Law: A ...

Parvathi Menon, Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights, has posted Edmund Burke and the Ambivalence of Protection for...

Lesley Dingle, University of Cambridge , has posted Conversations with Michael J. Prichard: The Fun of Legal History and the Triumph of Rese...

Co-edited by Kimberley Czajkowski (University of Edinburgh), Benedikt Eckhardt (University of Edinburgh) , and Merey Strothmann ( Ruhr-Unive...

The American Society for Legal History announced today that there will be no in-person annual convening this year: With public health exper...

The Rise of Law and Economics: An Intellectual History (Routledge, 2020), by George L. Priest, Yale Law School , has been published: Thi...

[We have the following annoucement.  DRE] The Legal History and Rare Books Section (LHRB) of the American Association of Law Libraries , ...

Robert Post, Yale Law School, has posted Tension in the Unitary Executive: How Taft Constructed the Epochal Opinion of Myers v. United Stat...

Virginia Torrie, University of Manitoba Faculty of Law, has published Reinventing Bankruptcy Law: A History of the Companies’ Creditors Arr...

Empire and Legal Thought: Ideas and Institutions from Antiquity to Modernity , edited by Edward Cavanagh (University of Edinburgh) , is now ...

Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College Law School , has written The Emerging Genre of The Constitution: Kent Newmyer and the Heroic Age , which i...

Reva Siegel, Yale Law School , has posted The Pregnant Citizen, from Suffrage to the Present , which is forthcoming in the G eorgetown Law J...

It is a pleasure to contribute to the Legal History Blog. My first book, entitled Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition across So...

We are so fortunate to have had Professor Rohit De with us these past weeks. He offered a thoughtful series of posts on " Murder Myst...

Reminder: Applications for the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation awards to support research and writing in American legal history by ear...

Elizabeth Sepper, University of Texas at Austin School of Law , and Deborah Dinner, Emory University School of Law , have posted Shared Hist...

Lorianne Updike Toler , a Visiting Fellow, at Information Society Project at the Yale Law School , has posted The Missing Indian Affairs Cla...

An Indian butler is shot on a moonlit island filled with radiant Chinars at the centre of Kashmir’s dal lake. A German housemaid is cl...