Legal History Blog

This post, by Noah Rosenblum ( Assistant Professor of Law, New York University School of Law) is the ninth in a series of posts in which le...

Jacqueline Beatty, York College of Pennsylvania , has published Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America (NYU Press): Patri...

This post, by Serena Mayeri , is the eighth in a series of posts in which legal historians reflect on Outside In: The Oral History of Guido ...

Philip J. Stern, Duke University , has published Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism (Harvard University ...

With much sadness, we share the news that legal historian Laurie Wood has passed away. Her family released the following obituary . Remembr...

[The second of the two essays I research and write for my exam in American Legal History is biographical Here's this year's.  DRE] ...

Just out from Hart/Bloomsbury: The Common Law Jurisprudence of the Conflict of Laws , a collection of essays edited by Sarah McKibbin and An...

Dru Stevenson, South Texas College of Law Houston , has published Revisiting the Original Congressional Debates About the Second Amendment ...

[As longtime LHB readers know, I post here the essays I research and write for my exam in American Legal History, which principally treats t...

Sean Vanatta, University of Glasgow , has posted Revolving Door Governance: Bank Supervisors in the United States, 1863-1933 : Daniel R. Cri...

"The  William & Mary Archive of American LGBTQ Political and Legal History , a first of its kind in the United States, will be fe...

Gregory May , a lawyer who practiced thirty years in New York and Washington, has published A Madman's Will: John Randolph, Four Hundred...

The Journal of Supreme Court History 48:1 has been published.  Here is the TOC: Introduction Timothy S. Huebner Articles Justice Samuel Nel...

Killing Precedent: The Salughter-House Constitution , an essay by Maeve Glass, Columbia Law School , is out in the Columbia Law Review This ...

Jonathan Green , a Harry A. Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School , has posted Interpretation in Englan...

Russell Sandberg, Cardiff University , has published A Historical Introduction to English Law: Genesis of the Common Law (Vambridge Univer...

“ Those Things Which Are Written in Romance: Language and Law Teaching in Thirteenth-Century England ,” an article by Thomas J. McSweeney, ...

The Law and Society Association has announced its annual prizes and awards, several of which will interest legal historians.  The first is ...

Thomas H. Lee, Fordham University School of Law , on the The Judicial Power-Admiralty Clause, which is forthcoming in the Heritage Guide to...

Via the op-ed pages of the New York Times : Kate Redburn (Columbia Law School), " We Have Fought Anti-Trans Laws and Won Before. We Ca...

This post, by Kate Redburn , is the seventh in a series of posts in which legal historians reflect on Outside In: The Oral History of Guido ...