Legal History Blog

Congratulations to Samantha Barbas, University at Buffalo Law , on her receipt of an NEH grant for a "sociolegal history of New York T...

[We have the following announcement from the Transnational Legal History Group Seminar of the Centre for Comparative and Transnational Law o...

Max W. L. Wong ( University of Hong Kong ) has published Chinese Marriage and Social Change: The legal abolition of concubinage in Hong Kon...

 [We have the following announcement.  DRE] The Selden Society with the Four Inns of Court presents The Fire Courts: Successfully Delivering...

Ross E. Davies, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School , has posted A Changed Court , 2020 Green Bag Almanac 193: On June 10, 1...

  Christian Burset (Notre Dame Law School) has an article coming out in vol. 74 of the  Vanderbilt Law Review , forthcoming in 2021. Here...

 Joe McIntyre and Sue Milne, University of South Australia School of Law , have posted The Alien and the Constitution: The Legal History of ...

 We have the following Call for Papers: Unauthorized European Migrations to the United States           We solicit propos...

The Stanford Center for Law and History has announced the lineup for its 2020-2021 workshop: Oct. 6, 2020: Lisa Surwillo, Stanford Iberian ...

[The following announcement appeared on H-Net .  DRE] The Virginia Military Institute seeks a tenure-track associate or full professor for...

In writing my book Fluid Jurisdictions: Arabs and Colonial Law in Southeast Asia (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020), I approach legal...

Anne C. Fleming is remembered, especially by other former Climenko Fellows, in Harvard Law Today .  The Alan Watson Seminar in Legal Hi...

Stephen Utz, University of Connecticut School of Law , has posted Boz Among the Radicals: Dickens Records a Turning Point in Tax History : ...

David Chan Smith, Wilfrid Laurier University, has posted The Mid-Victorian Reform of Britain’s Company Laws and the Moral Economy of Fair C...

 [We share the following on a speaker series organized by Emily Prifogle at the University of Michigan this fall.] Race & Property in Hi...

Peter L. Strauss, Columbia Law School , has posted How the Administrative State Got to This Challenging Place , which is forthcoming in Daed...

Edward Ballesien' s memorial of Anne Fleming is up on the Exchange, the blog of the Business History Conference.  In addition, Cambridg...

Just out from Cambridge University Press: Networks and Connections in Legal History , edited by Michael Lobban , London School of Economics ...

 The 2020-21 Yale Law School Legal History Forum schedule is out: --Tuesday, September 15 (12:00-1:30 pm EDT) - Ariela Gross , USC Gould Sc...

Michael Morley, Florida State University College of Law , has posted Partisan Gerrymandering and State Constitutions : Since the U.S. Supr...

We are very happy to welcome our guest blogger for the month of September:  Nurfadzilah (Fadzilah)  Yahaya, National University of Singapore...

Coming out this fall with Hart Publishing is Principle and Pragmatism in Roman La w, co-edited by Benjamin Spagnolo ( University of Cambrid...

Anne Fleming was to present a paper based on her research on Birmingham, Alabama’s innovative bankruptcy court at 100 Years of Canadian Ban...

Journal of Supreme Court History 45:2 (2020) has been published.  Here’s the TOC: Introduction Melvin I. Urofsky Fletcher, Whitney, ...

[We have been speaking of Anne Fleming as a legal historian, but her grasp of the small-sum loan industry in City of Debtors was so impress...

Georgetown Law ’s memorial notice for Anne Fleming , with remembrances from faculty, students and staff, is now online .  (A few other facu...

 The Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly has a special issue out on "The Constitutional Legacies of Empire," edited by Paul F. Scott...

Claudia Geiringer, Victoria University of Wellington School of Law , has posted When Constitutional Theories Migrate: A Case Study , which i...

Anne C. Fleming , Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, died suddenly Tuesday night from natural causes.  We at the blog were ...

The Center for the Study of Law & Society has released the Fall 2020 lineup for its speaker series and, as always, there are some spea...

We have word of a Zoom conference,  How the Law Treats Hate: Antisemitism and Anti-Discrimination Reconsidered , sponsored by the University...

  Ting Zhang (University of Maryland) has published Circulating the Code: Print Media and Legal Knowledge in Qing China with the University...

  We missed this one in 2019, when  Arvind Elangovan (Wright State University) published Norms and Politics: Sir Benegal Narsing Rau and the...

[We have the following book announcement from our friends at Max Planck.  DRE] The Max Planck Institute for European Legal History just pu...

The Berg Foundation Institute for Law and History of the Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University has posted the most complete list ...

[We have the following CFP.  DRE.] Call for Papers - Special Issue of Punishment & Society : African Penal Histories in Global Perspec...