Friday, January 8, 2021

Kirkby on "Indian" Enfranchisement in Canada

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Paradises Lost? The Constitutional Politics of “Indian” Enfranchisement in Canada, 1857–1900 , by Coel Kirkby, University of Sydney Law Scho...
Thursday, January 7, 2021

Lash on "Bill of Rights" Revisionism

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Kurt T. Lash, University of Richmond School of Law, has posted The 1791 Amendments as the 'Bill of Rights,' Founding to Reconstruct...

Lantigua on Spanish contributions to international law

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  David M. Lantigua (University of Notre Dame) has published Infidels and Empires in a New World Order: Early Modern Spanish Contributions ...
Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Magliocca on Confederate Amnesty under the 14th Amendment

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Gerard N. Magliocca, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law , has posted Amnesty and Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment ...

Getzler and Pitts Are New AJLH Editors-in-Chief

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[We have the following announcement.  DRE] The American Journal of Legal History and Oxford University Press are delighted to announce the ...
Tuesday, January 5, 2021

The French Civil Code at the Law Library of Congress

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[We have the following announcement from the Law Library of Congress .  DRE] On Thursday, January 28 at 2:00PM EST, join Foreign Legal Spec...

LHR 38:4

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Law and History Review 38:4 is now online . Bain Attwood, The Limits of the Law in Claiming Rights to Land in a Settler Colony: South Austr...

Pendas on Nazi trials

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 Devin O. Pendas (Boston College) has published Democracy, Nazi Trials, and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945-1950 with Cambridge Unive...
Monday, January 4, 2021

ASLH Honorary Fellows

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 [We have the following announcement.  DRE] The Honors Committee of the American Society for Legal History solicits nominations of senior s...

Virtual conference: Paper Empires

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 [We share the following announcement for a virtual conference happening on 7-8 Jan. 2021. To register, e-mail Nandini Chatterjee:  n.chatt...

Conley on "Women Who Killed, London 1674-1913"

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 Oxford University Press has published Debauched, Desperate, Deranged: Women Who Killed, London 1674-1913 , by Carolyn A. Conley (University...
Sunday, January 3, 2021

A Peek at the John Paul Stevens Papers

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John Paul Stevens ( LC ) Courtesy of The Docket , Ryan Reft , historian of the Modern United States in the Manuscript Division at the Libra...
Saturday, January 2, 2021

Weekend Roundup

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From the Washington Post 's "Made by History" Section: David Gessner (University of North Carolina Wilmington), " The mov...
Friday, January 1, 2021

Hoffman on Competition Law and Canadian Identity

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C.P. Hoffman, FreeState Justice, has posted “The Mother of Combines”: Representations of the United States in Early Canadian Discourse on t...
Thursday, December 31, 2020

Eunice Hunton Carter, 1899-1970

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[My annual exam in American Legal History also includes a biographical essay.  Previous years’ were on Stella Akin , the father-daughter duo...

Public Health, 1893-1939

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PHS Dispensary No. 32 ( LC ) [Longtime LHB readers will recall that for the exam in my legal history course I write an essay about some admi...

Nolan on Winfield on Tort

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Donal Nolan, University of Oxford Faculty of Law , has posted Professor Sir Percy Winfield (1878-1953) , which appears in Scholars of Tort ...
Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Bowman on the Jenner Bill

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Winston Bowman , Associate Historian, Federal Judicial Center , continues the FJC’s Spotlight on Judicial History series with a post on “Th...

Schorr on Nature as Norm in and Water Law in the British World

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David Schorr, Tel Aviv University Buchmann Faculty of Law , has posted Nature Versus the Common Law: Nature as a Norm in the Water Law of th...