Legal History Blog

Each year, the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation makes a series awards, targeting graduate students and early career legal historians, on t...

We continue our posting of announcements and awards from the just-concluded annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History with an...

The Supreme Court Historical Society and the Georgetown Center for the Constitution will hold the 8th Annual Salmon P. Chase Lecture on No...

Another announcement from the annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History : election results. President-Elect : Barbara Welke N...

 [Here is the citation for the Honorary Fellowship of the American Society for Legal History for James Q. Whitman .  It was read by Amalia...

[Here is the citation for the Honorary Fellowship of the American Society for Legal History for Víctor Tau Anzoátegui .  It was read by Am...

[Among the events at last weekend's annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History in New Orleans was the announcement of thr...

 [We have the following announcement.  DRE] Michigan Law School 2022 Junior Scholars Conference, April 22-23, 2022.  Call for Papers Deadlin...

NYU Press has published American Legal Education Abroad: Critical Histories , edited by Susan Bartie and David Sandomierski .   The second h...

Tiffany Yang, Georgetown University Law Center , has posted “Send Freedom House!”: A Study in Police Abolition in volume 96 of the Washingt...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] In June 2021, Melvin I. Urofsky retired as Chair of the Board of Editors of the Journal of Supre...

We recently noted Rabia Belt 's contribution to the New York University Law Review 's October 2021 symposium on " Voting and ...

Erwin Chemerinsky, University of California, Berkeley School of Law , and Michele Goodwin, University of California, Irvine , have published...

The New York University Law Review has published " Mass Institutionalization and Civil Death ," by Rabia Belt (Stanford Law Scho...

  We've received this virtual poster for what looks to be an very important and interesting seminar at USC Gould Law on November 10.  To...

Catherine Evans (University of Toronto) has published Unsound Empire: Civilization and Madness in Late-Victorian Law with Yale University P...

We are thrilled to have had Professor Philip Thai (Northeastern University) as our October guest blogger this year. Here are his posts, all...

Want to read more Chinese legal history but not sure where to start? In my previous post , I provided a select bibliography of English-langu...

Congratulations to Annette Gordon-Reed on her receipt of Mass Humanities’s Governor’s Award in the Humanities!  ( HLT ) UC Irvine ’s notice...

The Journal of Supreme Court History 46:2 has now been published : "Destructive to Judicial Dignity:" The Poetry of Melville West...

The John Jay College of Criminal Justice in the City University of New York is seeking a PhD or ABD near completion with "an active re...

Christopher M. Roberts, Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law , has posted The Age of Emergency , which appears in the Washington U...

[We have the following announcement of a conference at Notre Dame Law that starts today and focuses on The Reconstruction Amendments: Essen...

In my previous post , I provided a brief overview of Chinese legal historiography. In this penultimate post, I want to offer a resource on m...