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Greg Briker (J.D. candidate, Yale Law School) has published " The Right to Be Heard: ONE Magazine , Obscenity Law, and the Battle Over...

Carl H. Esbeck, University of Missouri School of Law , has posted The Establishment Clause: What the Text and Record in the First Federal Co...

Steven J. Heyman, Chicago-Kent College of Law , has posted Reason and Conviction: Natural Rights, Natural Religion, and the Origins of the F...

I wrote in my last post about needing intellectual community. As I mentioned at the end of that post, one important source of intellectual ...

Ruth Ginio (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) has published "When Dead Bodies Talk: Colonial and Ritual Autopsies in French-Ruled Af...

Joseph Fishman, Vanderbilt University Law School , has posted Originality's Other Path , which is forthcoming in volume 109 of the Cali...

David Sugarman ’s series of intellectual biographies of and conversations with leading figures in a generation of British legal academics wh...

Charles Sumner ( LC ) Lucy Salyer (University of New Hampshire) posted "'It Has Not Been My Habit to Yield': Charles Sumn...

Charles L. Barzun, University of Virginia School of Law , has posted The Tale of Two Harts; A Schlegelian Dialectic : This essay, written ...

I wrote in my last post about the writing process I used as I worked my way out of a nasty bout of writers’ block. Those individual techniq...

D. Michael Risinger, Seton Hall University School of Law, has posted Female Law Librarians as Pioneer Women Law Professors: A (Belated) Res...

Elizabeth Katz (Washington University in St. Louis) has posted " 'Racial and Religious Democracy': Identity and Equality in Mi...

Francine Hirsch, University of Wisconsin-Madison , has published Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military T...

The National History Center and the Woodrow Wilson [!!!] Center have announced the Inaugural Washington History Seminar Webinar with Heathe...

In my last post I wrote about getting writer’s block while in graduate school, after having written a rough draft of the dissertation. This...

Princeton University Press has released The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants , by Adam Goodman (Uni...

American Journal of Legal History, 60:2 (June 2020) is now available online :  Reforming Criminal Justice in the Ottoman Empire: Police, ...

From the Washington Post 's "Made by History" section: Adam Laats (Binghamton University (SUNY)), " Religious animus did...

Noah A. Rosenblum , the incoming Samuel I. Golieb Fellow at NYU School of Law , has posted Power-Conscious Professional Responsibility: Just...

One email, six excruciating months. “Dear Nate, We were excited to read the draft of your dissertation. What a great project! We’ve attached...

We missed the symposium in the SMU Law Review 72:3 (2019) on the centennial of the US Supreme Court First Amendment decisions of 1919: ...

Megan Ming Francis, University of Washington , and John Fabian Witt, Yale Law School , have posted Movement Capture or Movement Strategy? A...

I want to thank the editors of the Legal History Blog for having me as a guest blogger. It’s an honor and I’m delighted to have my words on ...

[We have, via the Irish Legal History Society and LPK, the following announcement of the postponement of the British Legal History Confere...

Coming out soon by Samuel Fury Childs Daly (Duke University) is A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War...

We are delighted to welcome our July guest blogger: Nate Holdren , Assistant Professor of Law, Politics, and Society at Drake University. Pr...

We here at LHB are grateful to Diana S. Kim, Georgetown University , for her very thoughtful guest posts this month growing out of her book ...

This is the sixth in a series of posts about my book, Empires of Vice . In my first post , I mentioned that this is a book for multipl...

Congratulations to Ivon Padilla-Rodriguez , Columbia University , and former LHB Associate Blogger Smita Ghosh , University of Pennsylvania ...

Out tomorrow from Macmillan is The Demagogue's Playbook: The Battle for American Democracy from the Founders to Trump , by Eric A. Posne...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE.] The University of Vienna ( 20 faculties and centres, 178 fields of study, approx. 9.800 mem...

Thomas Ruffin, 1859 ( LC ) From 2018, Eric L. Muller, UNC School of Law , and Sally Greene , on the portrait of Thomas Ruffin at the N...

[We're moving this up, because the deadline has been extended to July 15 .  DRE] We have the following announcement: Call for Applic...

This is the fifth in a series of posts about my book, Empires of Vice .  In my previous post , I discussed how understanding the inn...