Legal History Blog

[Here's another reason to join the American Society for Legal History : Members can virtually participate in this series on great new bo...

[We have the following announcement from the Publications Committee of the American Society for Legal History .  DRE]  After eight years of ...

Beth Van Schaack , the Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights at Stanford Law School , has posted Crimes Against Humanity: An Annota...

Lemuel Shaw ( NYPL ) Stephen Lee Saltonstall published Lemuel Shaw Reconsidered: Race and Reasonable Doubt in the Howard Law Journal 68 (...

Keith E. Whittington,Yale Law School , has posted Judicial Independence as a Constitutional Construction : An independent judiciary, in the ...

Jeremy Kessler, Columbia Law School , has posted The Problem of Authoritarianism in Marxist Legal Thought , which is forthcoming in the Oxfo...

The American Society for Legal History has released the draft program for its next annual meeting, to be held in Detroit, November 13-15. ...

[ Penn Carey Law has posted the following announcement .  DRE]  Beginning in the 2025-2026 academic year, the University of Pennsylvania Ca...

"History in Action: A Conversation with Professor Felicia Kornbluh" ( UVM ).  Richard Epstein on his career as a legal scholar (a...

Volume 8, Issues 1-2 of The Docket , the companion to Law and History Review , is now online : Sarah Gronningsater: The Rising Generation A ...

[We have word of the first event in a new collaboration between the Selden Society and the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London,...

Stephen M. Bainbridge, UCLA School of Law , has posted The Law and Economics of An Act to Encourage Privateering Associations : New York Col...

[We are moving up this post, because the August 30 deadline is one month away.  DRE] The Institute for Constitutional Studies is pleased to...

Janine Giordano Drake, Indiana University , has published What Rerum Novarum Did and Did Not Do for the American Labor Movement, 1891-1935 ...

Julia Bowes, University of Melbourne , has published “Another Human Sacrifice Thrown to the Pitiless Moloch of Police Power”: The Anti-Vacci...

Robert M. Jarvis has published The Neglected Amendments of the U.S. Constitution: Text, History, and Interpretation (Carolina Academic Pre...

Shane Chalmers, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law , has posted Colonialism and Law , which appears in  Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparativ...

New online from Law and History Review : Witnesses, Judges: A Revolution Untold , by Orit Malka, Hebrew University : Witness testimony in a ...

The University of Wisconsin Law School ’s  State Democracy Research Initiative  (SDRI) has put together an amazing resource on state constit...

Via Bluesky , the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) announced the prize winners from this year's annual meet...

Via Bluesky , the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) announced the prize winners from this year's annual meet...

Zachary Herz, University of Colorado, Boulder , has published The God and the Bureaucrat Roman Law, Imperial Sovereignty, and Other Stories ...

Richard M. Re, Harvard Law School , has posted To a Conservative Warren Court , a draft of his Foreword to the HLR issue on the Supreme Cou...

[The Brennan Center for Justice has announced the virtual event, The Rise of the Imperial Presidency , to take place on August 5, from 3–4 p...

The Harvard Law Review has published a student Note of interest: " When Rational Basis Review Bit ." Here's an excerpt from t...

Cattleya M. Concepcion, Georgetown University Law Library , has posted The First American Law Libraries , which is forthcoming in the Green ...

Raymond J. McKoski , a retired Illinois Circuit Judge and adjunct professor at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, has publish...

To continue today's theme of response to Jonathan Gienapp 's  Against Constitutional Originalism : Stephen E. Sachs, Harvard Law Sch...

Gary Lawson, University of Florida Levin College of Law , has posted Does Good Originalism Need Good History? which is forthcoming in the F...

"From Red Lights to Legal Rights": a notice of a book on the recent history of sex work in New Zealand by   Cheryl Ware ( Univers...

Also new online from Law and History Review : “The Rich Uncle from America”: Transnational Inheritance Transfers between the United States, ...

LHR day continues here at LHB: David Korostyshevsky, Colorado State University , has published Incapable of Managing His Estate: Habitual D...

New online in Law and History Review : “Distressing the Distressed”: Rent Distraint in Early Republic New York by Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan...

[We have the following announcement, which not only invites the submission of papers and panels for a scholarly conference but heralds the f...

Curtis Bradley, University of Chicago Law School, and Neil Siegel, Texas A&M Law School , have posted The Supreme Court Under Threat: E...

Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College Law School , has published The Real Genius of the Constitution: The Free Constitution , which is forthcomi...

The Unseen History of International Law , a history of the publishing of Hugo Grotius' De iure belli ac pacis , edited by Mark Somos, Ma...

Samantha Barbas, University of Iowa College of Law , has posted How American Civil Rights Groups Defeated Hate Speech Laws , which is forthc...

Penn Law 's notice of Serena Mayeri 's new book, Marital Privilege .   BC Law 's notice of Aziz Rana 's receipt of the ann...