Legal History Blog

Amsterdam University Press has published Scripting Justice in Late Medieval Europe: Legal Practice and Communication in the Law Courts of Ut...

We're grateful to Michael Ariens for his posts this month on his new book , The Lawyer's Conscience . Honor, Conscience, and Rules ...

[We have the following announcement.   DRE] Please join the Lillian Goldman Law Library for a talk with Professor Taisu Zhang about his new...

We missed this book when it came out last year: Amy Gajda (Tulane Law School), Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy ...

John Mikhail, Georgetown Law , will deliver a Law Day lecture for the Supreme Court Historical Society on James Wilson and "We The Peop...

Pierre Schlag, Colorado Law , has published Twilight of the American State (University of Michigan Press) open access, at the press’s websi...

We missed the publication of Freedom of speech, 1500-1850 , a collection of essays edited by Robert Ingram, Jason Peacey and Alex W. Barber...

The Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law, City University of Hong Kong in partnership with Wuhan University School of Law and Fudan Unive...

[Guest Blogger Michael S. Ariens 's posts on his new book, The Lawyer's Conscience , continues.  DRE] At its 1983 annual meeting, th...

Just in time to rally support for its subject, Samantha Barbas, Buffalo Law , has published Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the ...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE.] The Irish Legal History Society is now accepting entries for its second student-essay competiti...

[Guest Blogger Michael S. Ariens 's posts on his new book, The Lawyer's Conscience , continues.  DRE] In 1977, when the ABA began a...

Christopher M. Roberts, Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law , has posted Labor Control, Resistance, and the Advent of "Deve...

Taisu Zhang, Yale Law School, has published The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation: Belief Systems, Politics, and Institutions (Cambr...

Over at Environment, Law, and History, David Schorr has been blogging about his article on "Nature versus the Common Law." Here a...

Tomas Gomez-Arostegui, Lewis & Clark Law School , and Sean Bottomley, Northumbria University , have posted Patent-Infringement Suits and...

[Guest Blogger Michael S. Ariens 's posts on his new book, The Lawyer's Conscience , continues.  DRE] It is a mystery why the ABA ag...

The inaugural (Winter 2023) issue of the Journal of American Constitutional History , published by the University of Wisconsin Law School, w...

Gregory Ablavsky, Stanford Law School , and W. Tanner Allread, Stanford University , have posted We the (Native) People?: How Indigenous Peo...

David Dudley Field ( Harper's Weekly ; NYPL ) [Guest Blogger Michael S. Ariens 's posts on his new book, The Lawyer's Conscience...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] The Legal History and Rare Books (LH&RB) Section of the American Association of Law Libraries...

[We have the following call for papers. DRE] Constitutional History: Comparative Perspectives .  September 14-15, 2023; Bologna, Italy.  An ...

"This semester, Boston College is hosting the Boston-Area Legal History Colloquium , a distinctive forum where budding legal historian...

 [We have the following Call for Papers.  DRE] Just Computation? Social and Historical Perspectives on Calculation in Law, Harvard Universit...

Evan D. Bernick, Northern Illinois University College of Law , has posted Movement Administrative Procedure , his contribution to that Notre...

We have the following call for submissions:  The California Supreme Court Historical Society (CSCHS) is pleased to announce its call for sub...

[Guest Blogger Michael S. Ariens 's posts on his new book, The Lawyer's Conscience , continues.  DRE] Rufus Choate ( NYPL ) Followin...

Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law , has posted Mansfield, Burrow, and the Reformulation of the Legal Decision , which is for...

Luke Taylor, Lincoln Alexander School of Law, Toronto Metropolitan University, has published Constructing the Family: Marriage and Work in ...