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Judith Resnik, Yale Law School , has published Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy (University of Chicago ...

Frederik Dhondt has posted Jurisdiction and Taxation in the Habsburg Netherlands: The Manuscripts of Goswin Arnould de Wynants, Emperor Cha...

David-James Gonzales, Brigham Young University , has published Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation: Mexican American Grassroots Politics ...

[We have the following Call for Nominations for Honorary Fellows from the American Society for Legal History.  DRE.] The Honors Committee of...

Richard F Hamm has published Confronting Racism: Arthur Garfield Hays and the Fight for Equality, 1925-1954 (SUNY Press): Beginning in 192...

Via the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation , we have the following announcement: The Cromwell Article Prize for best arti...

A historian's' amicus brief , sponsored by the Brennan Center for Justice, has been filed in United States v. Hemani , "a cons...

Duncan Kennedy, Harvard Law School, has posted The reception of Jacques Derrida in American Critical Legal Studies :  This article describe...

Curtis Bradley, University of Chicago Law School , and Jack Goldsmith, Harvard Law School , have posted General Law Revivalism and the Probl...

Gerald L. Neuman, Harvard Law School , has posted Lessons for Birthright Citizenship from Suspension of Deportation : Although much has been...

[We have the schedule for the ASLH/Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium to be held on February 7, 2026, from 10 AM - 4 PM (EST) at ...

[We are moving this previously posted announcement up because the deadline of January 15 is approaching.  DRE.] Harvard Law Schoo l invites ...

The Journal of Legal History 45:2 (2024) has been published open access online.  With a hat-tip to ESCLHblog , here is the TOC.  DRE] The C...

[ Italian Review of Legal History 11 (2025) has been published open access online.  Unsurprisingly, most of the contributions are in Italia...

Jessica Choppin Roney, Temple University , has published “They Are Their Citizens and Must Submit to Their Government”: Citizenship and the ...

Peter Shane explains how the US Supreme Court could preserve Humphrey's Executor , using the historically informed distinction advanced...

The transition to the new year seems like a good time to post the results of the recent American Society for Legal History election.  As an...

Lorren Eldridge, University of Cambridge , has posted Gone and Forgotten: Vinogradoff's Historical Jurisprudence : Sir Paul Vinogradoff ...

Here is the TOC for GLOSSAE 22 (2025): Estudios Los jueces de apelaciones de Canarias en el Antiguo Régimen Mª Dolores Álamo Martell El ind...

For the past month, we have been posting notices of the awards, prizes, and fellowships announced at this fall's meeting of the American...

Ely Samuel Parker, seated at left ( LC ) Ely Samuel Parker , "a member of the Senecans," was admitted to the New York State Bar, 1...

Catherine Baylin Duryea, St. John's University School of Law , has published Emergency Oversight in the FIU Law Review .  It is an exce...

Susan Bartie, Australian National University, has published Understanding the world through legal Biography: Lessons from history, sociolog...

Jennie Jeppesen has published "Tried and Attainted": Comparisons of the Application and Reception of the Common Law of Attaint in...

Law and History Review 43:4 (November 2025) is now published online . British Imperial Constitutional Law and the Zionist Campaign against ...

Amanda Frost, University of Virginia School of Law , and her UVA law student, Emily Eason , have posted The Dog That Didn't Bark: Eligib...

Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis/Revue d'histoire du droi t/The Legal History Review 113: 3-4 (2025) has been published , Here, with ...

[We have the Call for Papers for the annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History to be held in Banff, Canada, November 12-14, ...