Legal History Blog

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] The Centres for English Legal History and Public Law at the University of Cambridge will host a s...

Balkinization has been hosting a symposium on Kunal Parker 's The Turn to Process: American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought , 18...

Alastair McClure, The University of Hong Kong, has published Trials of Sovereignty: Mercy, Violence, and the Making of Criminal Law in Bri...

Preston Jordan Lim, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law , has posted The Great Depression and Canada's Major Originalist D...

[We have the following announcement from the Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy of the Wayne State University Law School .  DRE.] T...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] As of 2023, the Supreme Court Historical Society awards the Henry J. Abraham Early Career Researc...

The Learned and Lived Law: Essays in Honor of Charles Donahue (Brill), edited by Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Saskia Lettmaier, and Nikitas Hatzi...

[We have the following CFP.  DRE] Call for Papers: “Queer Constitutional History” in the Journal of American Constitutional History .  Guest...

Journal of Supreme Court History 49:3 has been published : "Judge" Eugene Brooks: Supreme Court Messenger, Proponent of Black Awa...

The Fall/Winter 2024 issue of the California Supreme Court Historical Society Review is now available on line.  Here is Editor Molly Selvi...

Angela Fernandez 's Vox article (with  Justin Marceau), occasioned by the escape of those 43 lab monkeys, led to this interview with P...

Helen J. Knowles-Gardner, Institute for Free Speech , has posted Without a Little Help from Your Friends: The Supreme Court's Rejection ...

William M. Wiecek , emeritus, Syracuse University , has published The Dark Past: The US Supreme Court and African Americans, 1800-2015 (Oxf...

Continuing our round-up of the prizes and award announced at the recent meeting of the American Society for Legal History , we turn now to t...

[We have the following CFP for a History of International Law Colloquium from Andrei Mamolea.  DRE] The organizers of the Boston area colloq...

Daniel B. Rodriguez, Northwestern Law , has published Good Governing: The Police Power in the American States , with Cambridge University Pr...

Continuing our round-up of the prizes and award announced at the recent meeting of the American Society for Legal History , we turn now to t...

Jessica Lowe, University of Virginia School of Law , has posted St. George Tucker on Article II, Section 3: A Brief Synopsis : St. George Tu...

Continuing our round-up of the prizes and award announced at the recent meeting of the American Society for Legal History, we turn now to th...

Continuing our round-up of the prizes and award announced at the recent meeting of the American Society for Legal History, we turn now to a ...

Continuing our round-up of the prizes and award announced at the recent meeting of the American Society for Legal History , we turn now to t...

Mytheli Sreenivas, Ohio State University , has published Population, Eugenics and Reproductive Rights: Legalising Abortion in India, 1966–71...

The Fall 2024 issue of the Journal of American Constitutional History is now online .   A Regime of Statutes: Building the Modern President...

Continuing our round-up of the prizes and award announced at the recent meeting of the American Society for Legal History , we turn now to t...

[We are moving up this CFP for 2025 Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior Scholars because the deadline of December 9 is approaching.  DRE....

 [We have the following CFP.  DRE.] Oaths and Oath-Taking in Historical Perspective: Britain, Ireland, and the British Empire, 1700 to the P...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] Law, Culture, and the Humanities is sponsoring a symposium via Zoom, Wheels and Wings: Law, Regul...

The Irish Legal History Society will hold its annual general meeting on November 29.  Following the meeting John G. Gordon will lecture on ...

Jackson’s Judges: Six Appointments Which Shaped a Nation , by John Gregory Jacobsen , is now out from Covenant Books.  Dr. Jacobsen “earned ...

David Rapallo, Georgetown University Law Center , has posted Congress’s Power to Investigate Crime: Did Trump Kill Kilbourn ? which is to a...

Mark Graber, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law , has posted Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment: Is Trump's Inno...