Legal History Blog

The American Society for Legal History seeks submissions for the Kathyrn T. Preyer Scholars Award : Named after the late Kathryn T. Preyer,...

We have the following announcement.  DRE] credit The William & Mary Law School and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History ...

Tuesday, March 8, from 1-2 PM EST on the YouTube channel of the National Archives, Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College Law School , joins Mart...

The American Historical Review has announced the launch of a new podcast, History in Focus . From the Washington Post 's "Made by H...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] Next in the Asian Legal History Seminar Series, co-organized by the Hong Kong University Faculty ...

[We have word of the following book launch .  DRE] On Friday, March 18, 2022, from 15:00-17:15, the Edinburgh Centre for Private Law presen...

New over at the University of Chicago Law Review Online : Race and the History of International Investment Law , by Felipe Ford Cole , Shars...

Kara W. Swanson, Northeastern University School of Law , has posted The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921: A Lesson in the Law of Trespass , which...

Congratulations to Kimberly Welch (Vanderbilt University) and the eight other winners of "a new MacArthur-style ‘genius grant’ for hi...

Manzanar ( LC ) The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley has opened the exhibit, Uprooted: The Incarceration of Japane...

Samuel L. Bray and Paul B. Miller, Notre Dame Law School , have posted Christianity and Equity , which is forthcoming in Oxford Handbook o...

We are pleased to learn of a new podcast, Legal History from a European Perspective , which is available on all major platforms. The series ...

Over at Notice and Comment, Jed Shugerman, Fordham Law , has a very substantial post, A Reply to the Unitary Executive Theorists on the Misu...

 [We have the following CFP.  DRE] Slavery Past, Present & Future: 6th Global Meeting, July 11-13, 2022.  To be held in person at Webste...

Taisu Zhang, Yale Law School , and John Morley, Yale Law School and the European Corporate Governance Institute , have posted The Modern Sta...

[We have the following announcement of the Twelfth Annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition.  DRE.] The Legal History and Rare Books...

 [We have the following announcement.  DRE] The 2021-22 Cotterrell Lecture in Sociological Jurisprudence, "Rules and Exceptions: Casuis...

The Supreme Court Historical Society has announced Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln’s Vital Rival, a lecture by Walter Stahr , a lawyer and biogra...

[We have the following announcement of the “launch seminar” of the CoCoLaw (Comparing Early Modern Colonial Laws) Project, which “aims to pr...

The Journal of Supreme Court History 46:3 (November 2021) is now available online .  Here’s the TOC: Introduction Timothy S. Huebner Arthur...

It’s online and Open Access in Law and History Review : Creating a Common Law of Slavery for England and its New World Empire , by Holly Bre...

Volume 67, Issue 1 , of the Journal of Law & Policy celebrates the centennial of St. Louis's Mound City Bar Association , one of t...

 The University of California Press has published Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice After Roe v. Wade (2021)...

Adriana Chira, Emory University , has published Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations (Cambridge Univers...

Mark Tushnet , author of the Holmes Devise history of the Hughes Court, discusses it and other topics on the Supreme Myths podcast . Tomiko ...

Hannah Haksgaard, University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law , has posted Including Unmarried Women in the Homestead Act of 1862 , whi...

This Friday and Saturday (February 18-19, 2022), the University of Pennsylvania Law Review is hosting a law review symposium on " The D...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] The Georgetown Legal History Colloquium is pleased to announce its spring 2022 workshops.  On Fri...

[We have the following announcement of a podcast from the National Constitution Center .  DRE.] The National Constitution Center is launchi...

We have it that on February 18, at 12:00 (we assume Madrid time), the next session of the Colloquium on the History of Law of the faculty of...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] The Program Committee of the American Society for Legal History has prepared a tip sheet, Creati...

Kenneth S. Abraham and G. Edward White of the University of Virginia School of Law are interviewed on their new book, Tort Law and the Co...

The Journal of Policy History 34:1 (January 2022) is available online . New Policy Elites and the Affordable Care Act: The Making of Long-T...

Jeffrey Thomas Perry, Tusculum University , has published Law in American Meetinghouses Church Discipline and Civil Authority in Kentucky, 1...

Amy J. Cohen (Temple University School of Law) has posted " The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Informal Justice and the Death of ADR ,...

Call for Papers: The Search for Humanity after Atrocity: A Conference for Engaged Scholars and Informed Practitioners , October 16-17, 2022,...

Herewith, we revive a prior practice of inviting scholars seeking others for panelists for this November's annual meeting of the America...

Tomiko Brown-Nagin , dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law, and Professor of ...