Legal History Blog

Tamika Y. Nunley, Oberlin College, has published At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. ...

Robert B. Stevens ( UCSC ) Robert Bocking Stevens , the author of the indispensable Law Schools: Legal Education in America: 1850-1960 (198...

John Christopoulos (University of British Columbia) has published Abortion in Early Modern  Italy with Harvard University Press. From the ...

Karthik Subramaniam, NALSAR University of Law , has posted A Study on the Development of the Admissibility of Polygraph Tests in India : Leg...

The Renaissance of Roman Colonization: Carlo Sigonio and the Making of Legal Colonial Discourse , edited by Jeremia Pelgrom and Arthur West...

 [We share the following announcement on a Spanish-language book series.] Tirant Lo Blanch is one of the foremost law publishing houses in t...

Craig Green, Temple Law , has published United/States: A Revolutionary History of American Statehood in the Michigan Law Review 119 (2020)...

[We have the following query from our friends at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory.  DRE] After roughly one year o...

 We have the following call for applications , from the American Historical Association: Littleton-Griswold Research Grant for Research in U...

Julia L. Ernst, North Dakota Law , has published The Mayflower Compact: Celebrating Four Hundred Years of Influence on U.S. Democracy , Nort...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE} Legal Histories of Empire: Second Symposium Join us for the second of several symposia planned fo...

[We share the following announcement.]  The Stanford Center for Law and History is pleased to announce two upcoming book talks on February 9...

 [We share the following job ad, which may be of interest to LHB readers. Applications are due by March 22, 2021.] Position Rank: Full Time ...

[ We have the following announcement .  DRE] The International Society for Chinese Law and History (ISCLH) is pleased to announce a call f...

On Wednesday, February 17th, 2021, 16:30 Jerusalem, the Law and Humanities Workshop at IDC Herzliya, Israel will host Prof. Elizabeth S. Ank...

Although it’s gated, we note the publication of Gone and forgotten: Vinogradoff's historical jurisprudence , by Lorren Eldridge , a Grad...

The Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public and Public Service at Washington State University is hosting an excellent series of noon-hour lect...

Inge Van Hulle , Tilburg University , has just published Britain and International Law in West Africa: The Practice of Empire (Oxford Unive...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] Postdoctoral Researcher: History of Slavery in the City of London , Nuffield College, University ...

[We have the following Call for Proposals .  DRE] Every year, the [American Society for Legal History ] is invited to submit sponsored panel...

Jochen von Bernstorff (Tubingen Law) and Philipp Dann (Humboldt University Berlin)  have co-edited The Battle for International Law: South-...

Michael J. Higdon, University of Tennessee College of Law , has posted If You Grant It, They Will Come: The Enduring Legal Legacy of Migrat...

New from Brill is Painting Constitutional Law: Xavier Cortada’s Images of Constitutional Rights , edited M.C. Mirow and Howard M. Wasserman:...

The first lecture in a four-part series sponsored by the Norwich Historical Society in collaboration with the Connecticut League of Histor...

Charles L. Barzun, University of Virginia School of Law , has posted Quentin Skinner v. Charles Taylor: Explanation and Practical Reasoning ...

Francine Hirsch ( University of Wisconsin-Madison ) has received recognition for her book, Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of t...

The University of Hawai'i Law Review has published " Labor, Law Enforcement, and 'Normal Times': The Origins of Immigrati...

 [We have the following, updated Call for Papers for the 2021 annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History.  DRE] The Program ...

The Fordham Law Review recently published a symposium on the legacy of Senator Birch Bayh, whose accomplishments include helping draft the ...

Over at the blog "History | Sexuality | Law," Katharina Isabel Schmidt , a PhD candidate in history at Princeton University and a...

The Florida State University Business Review has published " What Were Shareholder Rights in the Wake of the American Revolution? ...

Rafael I. Pardo, Emory University School of Law , has posted O n Bankruptcy’s Promethean Gap: Building Enslaving Capacity into the Antebellu...

Chloe L. Ireton (University College London) has published "Black Africans' Freedom Litigation Suits to Define Just War and Just Sl...

The Boston University Law Review has published " A Nation of White Immigrants: State and Federal Racial Preferences for White Noncitize...

Ignacio de la Rasilla, Wuhan University, has published International Law and History Modern Interfaces with cambridge University Press as ...