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My Georgetown Law colleague Robert Thompson and his Michigan Law coauthor Adam Pritchard will discuss their new book A History of Securiti...

Stanford Law Review has published " Imperialism and Black Dissent ," by Nina Farnia (Albany Law School). The abstract: As U.S. im...

We noted with interest an author's query in the May 11 issue of the New York Review of Books :  Prof. Corbin's grandson has unpublis...

This post, by Karen Tani (University of Pennsylvania), is the third in a series of posts in which legal historians reflect on Outside In: Th...

Rohit De and Ornit Shani have published, open access, Assembling India’s Constitution: Towards a New History , in Past & Present : The ...

This post, by Karen Tani (University of Pennsylvania), is the second in a series of posts in which legal historians reflect on Outside In: T...

Big news at the Library of Congress: Justice John Paul Stevens 's papers are now open for research. Today Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Harvard U...

This post, by Alex Zhang , is the first in a series of posts in which legal historians reflect on Outside In: The Oral H...

As we noted earlier this year, Oxford University Press recently published a two-volume oral history (titled Outside In ) of the well-known ...

Allan C Hutchinson, Osgoode Hall Law School , has published Hart, Fuller, and Everything After: The Politics of Legal Theory (Bloomsbury): ...

The American Law Institute: A Centennial History , edited by Andrew S. Gold and Robert W. Gordon, has been published by Oxford University Pr...

[We have the following announcement of the CFP for the 26th British Legal History Conference , which will take July 3-6, 2024, at the Univer...

[We have the following announcement .  DRE] The Early English Laws project publishes online and in print new editions and translations of a...

Duke University Press has published Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico (2023), by Yanna Yannakakis (Emory Univ...

No surprise to us: Legal historians teach law students well.  Kellen Funk wins the Reese Prize for Excellence in Teaching at Columbia Law ...

[We have the following announcement from the American Society for Legal History.  DRE] Pre-register for Philadelphia 2023! The registration ...

[We have the following announcement from the American Society for Legal History .  DRE.] We are excited to announce a new virtual initiative...

[We have the following announcement from the Supreme Court Historical Society .  DRE] The [Supreme Court Historical] Society is pleased to a...

Alex Zhang, Emory University School of Law , has posted Separation of Structure s, which is forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review : In a se...

On April 27, at noon, the Supreme Court Historical Society will host Peter S. Canellos , author of The Great Dissenter: the Story of John Ma...

James E. Pfander, Northwestern University School of Law , has posted Public Law Litigation in Eighteenth Century America: Diffuse Law Enforc...

In Slate: Reva Siegel (Yale Law School) and Mary Ziegler (UC Davis), " Our Victorian Supreme Court: What it really means for the court...

On Wednesday, I was very pleased to attend the ceremony naming a classroom at Georgetown Law in honor of Anne Fleming , whose untimely dea...

Renée Lettow Lerner, George Washington Law , has published The Jury: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press): From ancient Athen...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE.] The Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit presents the second program in its s...

We have the following Call for Papers : Call for Papers for the Massachusetts Historical Society’s 2024 Conrad E. Wright Research Conference...

[We have the following announcement from the American Society for Legal History .  DRE]   The ASLH awards a number of annual prizes that cel...

The 2023 issue of Federal History has been published on-line .  Here’s the TOC: Roger R. Trask Lecture: What Federal Historians Do Edward C...

On Monday, April 24, 17:00 - 18:30 (GMT), Lorren Eldridge , an Early Career Fellow in Legal History at the University of Edinburg h, will pr...

The Libri Feudorum (the ‘Books of Fiefs’): An Annotated English Translation of the Vulgata recension with Latin Text , by Attilio Stella , h...

I'm saddened to learn of the passing of Robert C. Palmer , the Cullen Professor of History and Law Emeritus at the University of Housto...

In Historicizing the War(s) on Drugs across National (and Disciplinary) Borders , Sara Mayeux, Vanderbilt Law , reviews The War on Drugs: A ...