Legal History Blog

Josh Blackman, South Texas College of Law Houston , has posted A Historical Record of Special Counsels Before Watergate : This Article prese...

Julia Rudolph, North Carolina State University , has published William Blackstone, Family Man: New Contexts in Gender, Jurisprudence, and Ja...

Mujinga Pathou Petipeti, University of Kinshasa Faculty of Law , has published The Formation of the State in the Democratic Republic of the ...

Dieter Grimm has published Constitutional Effectiveness: The Case of Germany's Basic Law with Hart/Bloomsbury: This book presents a un...

Maria Ponomarenko, University of Texas Law , has posted Revisiting Presidential Reorganization , which is forthcoming in the George Washingt...

Reva B. Siegel (Yale Law School) and Mary Ziegler  (University of California, Davis) have posted Dismantling Equality Rights Through "B...

Daniel DeFraia has published " The Branzburg myth: how secrecy and law distort history and misinform policy " online, open-acces...

The workshop Disabilities and Women in Ancient Rome: Legal, Social and Cultural Perspectives will be held at the University of Helsinki Mai...

Haris Durrani (Harvard University) has posted " Industrial Patent Law ," which is forthcoming in Volume 104 of the Washington Univ...

Steven A. Bank, UCLA School of Law , has published  High Rates and Low Taxes: Tax Dodging in Mid-Century America   (Cambridge University Pre...

Elizabeth Papp Kamali on " Charles Donahue : Man, Magister, Inimitable Scholar" ( Harvard Law Bulletin ).   The HLS Library has ...

Christen Hammock Jones,  a Ph.D. candidate in History at the  University of Pennsylvania , and Karen M. Tani (University of Pennsylvania) ha...

Marco Basile, Boston College Law School, has posted Old Textualism, New Juristocrac y, which is forthcoming in the New York University Law ...

Forthcoming from the Cambridge University Press: In Congress We Trust? Enforcing Voting Rights from the Founding to the Jim Crow Era by Fra...

[We have the following announcement from Merrilee Proffitt of Democracy's Library.  DRE] Thanks to a generous gift of materials from th...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] The Raoul Berger-Mark DeWolf Howe Legal History Fellowship for 2026-2027 at Harvard Law School h...

On Tuesday, April 28, 15:00-16:30, Helsinki time, which is seven hours ahead of EDT, Karolina Stenlund , a lecturer at the Faculty of Law at...

[We have the following announcement from Emily Prifogle, Secretary of the American Society for Legal History .  DRE.] We are happy to announ...

Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College Law School , delivers the 2026 Maurice and Muriel Fulton Lecture at the University of Chicago Law School ...

Paolo Amorosa, University of Helsinki Faculty of Law , and Ville Suuronen, University of Turku , have posted ' Ancora tu ?' Question...

We note the publication, as an anonymous “Chapter” in the Developments of the Law section of a recent issue of the Harvard Law Review , of t...

The Harvard Law Review has published " Indigenous Constitutionalism ," by Tanner Allread (University of California, Los Angeles)....

Dennis J Wieboldt, III , a JD-PhD candidate at Notre Dame , has published ‘But the original intent of the Constitution would be restored’: C...

Andrew Kent, Fordham University School of Law , has posted The Pre-History of Modern Economic Sanctions , which is forthcoming in Constituti...

[The following is an invited guest post by Keith Richotte, Jr. (Director, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program, and Professor of Law, U...

Mike Widener , formerly Rare Book Librarian in the Lillian Goldman Law Library at the Yale Law School, has made two recent articles availabl...

Haris Durrani (Harvard University) has posted " Before Invention ," forthcoming in the Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal . T...

Jessica Lake, Melbourne Law School , has published Professional authority and institutional integrity: men's suits for sexual misconduct...

Over at JOTWELL, we've noticed several reviews of interest: Maya Manian (American University Washington College of Law)  wrote about Az...