Legal History Blog

David R. Upham, St. Thomas University , has posted The "Black and Tan Conventions," Diverse Originalism, and the Fourteenth Amendm...

Dominic DeBrincat, Missouri Western State University , has published, open access, Solomon in the Wilderness: Colonial Connecticut Judges an...

Christine A. Desan, Harvard Law School , has posted Public Banking in the United States: Historical Lessons for Today , which is forthcoming...

[We have the following announcement .  DRE.] The American Historical Association invites you to attend a Congressional Briefing offering hi...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] The Raoul Berger-Mark DeWolf Howe Legal History Fellowship for 2025-2026 at Harvard Law School h...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] The Journal of Legal Education is the official scholarly journal of the [Association of American...

[We are reposting the Call for Papers for the annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History to be held in Detroit on November 1...

Now available online from Law and History Review : Constitutional Panic in British India: How the Ilbert Bill Controversy of 1883 Revealed t...

The Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie have published, open access, Legal Transfer and Legal Geography in the Britis...

Anthony Michael Kreis, Georgia State University College of Law , Evan D. Bernick, Northern Illinois University College of Law , and Paul A. ...

I am excited to spend March as a guest blogger for the Legal History blog. Thanks to Karen Tani and Dan Ernst for inviting me.  My posts w...

We at LHB are thrilled to welcome back Professor Jill Hasday as a guest blogger for the month of March. Some highlights from Professor Hasd...

Brendan A. Shanahan , a Lecturer in the Department of History at Yale University , has published Disparate Regimes: Nativist Politics, Alien...

M. Scott Heerman 's Sources and U. S. Citizenship in the Antebellum United States: A View from Abroad is available as a "first loo...

Joshua C. Macey and Brian Richardson have published The Public Law of Public Utilities in 42:1 of the Yale Journal on Regulation : This A...

The Supreme Court Historical Society has announced a three-part lecture series for Spring 2025: Lecture One – Virtual In Hoffa’s Shadow: C...

[We have the following announcement.  And, to disambiguate: the Institute for Constitutional History is not to be confused with the Institut...

Palgrave Macmillan Cham has published Moses, Muhammad and Nature’s God in Early American Religious-Legal History, 1640-1830 (Sept. 2024), ...

Jonathan Gienapp continues his engagement with "original public meaning" originalists.  "[O]riginalists assume that historia...

Daniel Epps, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law , and Marin K. Levy, Duke University School of Law , have posted Judicial Refo...

“ Equality: Race and Constitutional History ,” a Harvard Law School Online course taught by Michael Klarman , treats “the Constitution’s dee...

The ASLH/Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium will convene on March 8, 2025 . Virtual participation remains an option for those wh...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE.] Methods Exchange: On Legal Historical Study February 16, 2025, 10.00 AM to 12.00 PM.   Lady Hale...

The University of Chicago Press has just published Mastery and Drift: Professional Class Liberals Since the 1960s , edited by Brent Cebul a...

Paul Kominers , an associate at the law firm Anderson & Kreiger LLP, has published Judge Day’s Case: A Historical Account of Commonwealt...

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal and Sam Erman have published, open access," Inventing Birthright: The Nineteenth-Century Fabrication of jus sol...

The Winter 2025 issue of Journal of American Constitutional History has been now published: Evelyn Atkinson, “The Northern Man and His Corp...

Oxford University Press has published Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity: Counternarratives of Justice (2024), by Chaya T. Halberstam (King...

Robert H. Jackson ( LC ) Adam Liptak on the Sassoon Resignation and Robert Jackson's " The Federal Prosecutor ," with a quote...

Over at JOTWELL, Josh Gupta-Kagan has posted an admiring review of Laura Briggs, Haaland v. Brackeen and Mancari: On History, Taking Child...

 [We have the following announcement.  H/t: H-Law .  DRE] The Supreme Court Historical Society invites applicants for the Henry J. Abraham ...

 [We have the following announcement.  H/t: H-Law .  DRE.] The Supreme Court Historical Society invites submissions for the Hughes-Gossett ...

[We have the following announcement.  H/t: H-Law .  DRE.] The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (LCH) is accept...

Kirsten Sellars has published A ‘Constitution for the Oceans': The Long Hard Road to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (Cambridg...

Jill Elaine Hasday, University of Minnesota Law School , has published We the Men: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetu...

[We have the lineup for the Legal History Workshop at the University of Minnesota Law School for the Spring 2025 semester.  It meets Thursd...