Legal History Blog

Annette E. Clark has published “What’s Past Is Prologue”: The Story of the Sale of the University of Puget Sound School of Law to Seattle U...

The National University of Singapore Press has published Colonial Law Making: Cambodia under the French (Dec. 2023), by Sally Frances Low ....

Could be worse: In Martinez and Tobia's recent survey, Legal History is in the middle of the pack for "should be central to the la...

Christian Edmonds has posted " Isaac Backus and the Influence of Evangelical Separationism on the Religion Clauses of the First Amendm...

Princeton University Press has published Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China (2023), by Tristan G. Brown (Massa...

James W. Ely (Vanderbilt University) has posted " ' To protect all the essential elements of ownership:' Late Nineteenth Centu...

Reaktion Press has published The Pirates' Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship , by Rebecca Simon (Santa Monica College). A description fro...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE.] We are pleased to share that applications are open for the 2024-2025 Transportation Library Trav...

 [We have the following announcemen t.  DRE.] The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on “ Just Policing: Transnational Perspectives ...

On C-SPAN, Jeffrey Rosen, National Constitution Center , discusses Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'s The Common Law (1881), which the Librar...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] The last issue of GLOSSAE: European Journal of Legal History 20 (2023) came out some time ago [a...

Norman E. Donoghue II , has posted Prisoners of Congress: Philadelphia's Quakers in Exile, 1777–1778 (Penn State University Press): In ...

 The American Society for Legal History has issued the CFP for the 2024 Annual Meeting: American Society for Legal History 2024 ASLH Annual...

Jonathan W. White has published Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade (Rowman...

Gary Stein has published Justice for Sale: Graft, Greed, and a Crooked Federal Judge in 1930s Gotham (Blackstone Publishing): The never-be...

Niamh Howlin, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin , has published Barristers in Ireland: An evolving profession since 1921 ...

Sebastián Delgado, University of Cambridge , has posted The Utopian Liberal: Continuity and Change in the Thought of Charles Sumner , which ...

Jeffrey Rosen's interview for the National Constitution Center of Robert Post about Dean Post's Holmes Devise history of the Taft C...

The (Fall/Winter 2023) issue of the California Supreme Court Historical Society Review is now available here .  And here is the TOC: Serran...

The University of California Press has published From Label to Table : Regulating Food in America in the Information Age (Oct. 2023), by Xa...

Oxford University Press has published The Rise of Critical Islam: 10th-13th Century Legal Debate (2023), by Youcef L. Soufi (University of ...

[We have the folllowing call for papers for an international, on-line conference.  H/t: JW.  DRE] The Conservative Turn, the Uses of the Pas...

Via New Books Network , we have word of a 2022 publication that we missed: International law in Europe, 700-1200 (Manchester University Pre...

Joy Milligan and Bertrall Ross (both of the University of Virginia) have posted " We (Who Are Not) the People: Interpreting the Undem...

The Ius Commune Podcast has released on Spotify the first of a two-part series on French Medieval Law with Ada Kuskowski, University of Pe...

We have received a request for participants for an international research project, International Customary Laws Database Project, coordinate...

M.H. Hoeflich has published Legal Feasts (Talbot Publishing): In this book, the author discusses the history and significance of gathering...

Carlton F. W. Larson (University of California, Davis) has posted " The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial in America ." The art...

The Journal of Modern History has published " Sir Edward Coke’s Infidel: Imperial Anxiety and the Origins of a 'Strange Extrajudici...

Daniel Friedman, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, has posted “Confucius” and America’s Dangerous Myths about Chinese Law ...

Taisu Zhang, Yale Law School , has posted The Private Law Influence of the Great Qing Code , which appears in The Making of the Chinese Civi...