Legal History Blog

Ryan Reft 's documentary essay on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision of United States v. Nixon (1974), decided fifty years ago, is ...

Timothy Sandefur, Goldwater Institute , has posted The "Mandatory" Clauses of State Constitutions , which is forthcoming in the Go...

Felice Batlan, Chicago-Kent College of Law , has posted The 1948 Displaced Persons Act and Home-Grown Antisemitism : This Article examines t...

Alexander Zhang , the Legal History Fellow at the Yale Law School , has posted two papers on the history of statutory interpretation.  Legis...

[We're moving up this previously posted communication from Ari Bryen , the Secretary of the American Society for Legal History .  DRE] ...

Over at the New Republic : John Fabian Witt (Yale Law School) reviews Aziz Rana 's The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idoliz...

American Journal of Legal History 64:1 (March 2024) is now published online . The Pennsylvania Council of Censors and the Debate on the Gua...

Adam Mossoff, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, has posted Injunctions for Patent Infringement: Historical Equity Practice...

Victor Saucedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid , has posted a book-length, thoroughly and extensively introduced edition of the testimony ...

Nicholas R. Parrillo, Yale Law School , has posted Nondelegation, Original Meaning, and Early Federal Taxation: A Dialogue With My Critics ,...

Diane Marie Amann, University of Georgia School of Law , has posted Inge Viermetz, Woman Acquitted at Nuremberg : Inge Viermetz ( wiki ) Con...

Andrew J. Lanham , a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law , Harvard Law School , has published “Protection for Every Class of Citizens”: The ...

Lionel Smith , Cambridge University, has posted From Mancipatio to Emancipation in Roman Law , which appears in Revue du Notariat 124 (202...

The political columnist Mark Z. Barabak has profiled Mary Ziegler, UC Davis , in the Los Angeles Times . Holly Brewer , University of Maryla...

Peter Charles Hoffer, University of Georgia , has published The Supreme Court Footnote: A Surprising History (NYU Press): In May 2022, a se...

Justin Simard, Michigan State University Law School , on the Citing Slavery Project ( The Conversation ). Giuliana Perrone, UC Santa Barbara...

David M. Schizer, Columbia Law School , and Steven G. Calabresi, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law , have posted Wealth Taxes U...

Ian Ward, Newcastle University , has published The Reformation of the Constitution: Law, Culture and Conflict in Jacobean England (Hart/Blo...

Umut Özsu, Carleton University ,has published Completing Humanity: The International Law of Decolonization, 1960–82 (Cambridge University P...

Michael L. Moffitt (University of Oregon School of Law) has posted " Truth. Regardless of Reconciliation? " The abstract: Formal ...

A belated notice that Oxford University Press has published A Widow's Vengeance after the Wars of Religion (2023), by Tom Hamilton (Dur...

An initial volume of Law and Diversity: European and Latin American Experiences from a Legal Historical Perspective (2023), edited by Peter...

Yale University Press has published Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control (2024), by Sean Vanatta (Uni...

Madiba K. Dennie on her book “The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back,” on Mark...

Rachel Rothschild (University of Michigan Law) has posted " The Origins of the Major Questions Doctrine ." The abstract: In a seri...

Thomas D. Russell, University of Denver, Sturm College of Law , as posted Claims on the Tracks : A Trip Down Market Street, 2016 ( Upchurch ...

A new book is out, open access, in the Global Perspectives on Legal History series of the Max-Planck-Institut for Legal History and Legal Th...

[The Spring/Summer '24 issue of the California Supreme Court Historical Society Review is now available .  Here is the editor's des...

My Georgetown Law colleague Gregory Klass has posted A Short History of the Interpretation-Construction Distinction : Francis Lieber ( NYP...

Hendrik Hartog, the Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty, Emeritus, at Princeton University , ha...

We were pleased to learn that Alastair McClure, University of Hong Kong , an expert on Asian legal history, is the new Associate Editor at L...