Legal History Blog

Farah Peterson, University of Chicago Law School , has posted Expounding the Constitution , which appears in the Yale Law Journal 230 (2020)...

The Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy is hosting the webinar Author Meets Critics:  Oliver Wendell Holmes: Willing Ser...

 [We have the following announcement.  DRE] 39th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society Join us for an ...

  Daniel J. R. Grey (University of Hertfordshire) has published " 'It is impossible to judge the extent to which the crime is prev...

Filippo Maria Sposini , a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto , has published Just the Basic Facts: The Certification of Insanity in ...

Eli Wald, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, has published Getting In and Out of the House: The Worlds of In-House Counsel, Big Law...

  Kate Bradley (University of Kent) and Sophie Rowland (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) have published "A poor woman...

From the Washington Post 's "Made by History" section: Julio Capó Jr. ( Florida International University) and Melba Pearson ...

Linda C. McClain, Boston University School of Law , recently has posted two articles.  The first is What Becomes a Legendary Constitutional ...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] Call for Abstracts: Fourteenth International Junior Faculty Forum Sponsored by Stanford Law Schoo...

The next meeting of the Washington History Seminar will be devoted to Francine Hirsch, University of Wisconsin-Madison , and her book, Sovi...

Here's a 2019 publication that we missed somehow: Lutheran Theology and Contract Law in Early Modern Germany (ca. 1520-1720) (Verlag Fe...

The Legal History Roundtable at the Boston College Law School announces its next session, In Congress We Trust? Enforcing Voting Rights from...

Cattleya M. Concepcion, Head of Reference, Georgetown Law Library , has posted Happy Birthday, My Dear Chief Justice: Three Letters from Sam...

Studies in American Political Development 34:2 (October 2020) is open access through the end of the month: Racism Is Not Enough: Minority ...

John K.M. Ohnesorge, University of Wisconsin Law School , has posted Development is Not a Dinner Party: A Hurstian Perspective on Law and Gr...

Genevieve Lakier, University of Chicago Law School , has posted The Non-First Amendment Law of Freedom of Speech , which is forthcoming in v...

 [We have the following announcement.  DRE] Michigan Law School 2021 Junior Scholars Conference , April 16-17, 2021.  Call for Papers.  Dead...

Tomas Gomez-Arostegui, Lewis & Clark Law School , and Sean Bottomley, Northumbria University , have posted The Traditional Burdens for F...

New from the University of Chicago Press: States of Exception in American History , edited by Gary Gerstle (University of Cambridge) and Jo...

Now available online is Law and History Review 38:3 (August 2020): Introduction: Rebecca Scott's History of Public Rights Amy Chazkel ...

 We're very pleased to have had Stefan Kirmse  ( Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin)  as our guestblogger for October 2020. He took...

As my time as an LHB blogger is coming to an end, I wanted to mention a few things that, for various reasons, have not received the attentio...

The Federal Judicial Center has another in its series of essays.  The latest, by Winston Bowman , is FF's Soliloquy , from the Supreme C...

[We have the following announcement .  DRE.] Insider Trading: Honoring the Past.  A Program Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of Chiarella ...

Jud Campbell, University of Richmond School of Law , has posted Natural Rights, Positive Rights, and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms , which...

 [We have the following announcement on an online event, sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History .  DRE] On Novem...

Simon Stern. University of Toronto Faculty of Law , has posted Proximate Causation in Legal Historiography , which is forthcoming in History...

  Thomas J. McSweeney, Katharine Ello, and Elsbeth O'Brien (all of  William and Mary ) have published " A University in 1693: New ...

„By order of the Highest Manifesto, promulgated on May 15, the case against the former Kazan governor Skariatin, processed by the Criminal C...

 [We share the following job posting.] The Department of Criminology at Ryerson University  (Toronto, Canada) welcomes applications for a te...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] Democracy Contested? A virtual event of Cornell University to be held Thursday, October 29, 2020...

James Cleith Phillips, Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law , and John Yoo, University of California at Berkeley School of L...

The symposium Secularism, religion, and the public sphere has recently concluded over at The Immanent Frame, the blog of the Social Science...

Jeffrey Denys Goldsworthy, Monash University Faculty of Law , has posted A Brief History of Constitutional Theory in Britain , which is fort...