Legal History Blog

Kathleen Commons has published, open access, Discovering ‘Immigration Control’ in England, c. 1540 – c. 1640 in The Historical Journal : M...

Michael L. Smith, University of Oklahoma College of Law , and Yoo Jung Chang , a cellist, have posted Stravinsky's National Anthem : Igo...

Joshua E. Kastenberg, University of New Mexico , has published, in the St. Louis University Law Journal , T he Past May Be Uncomfortable: Fr...

 [We have the following announcement .  DRE]  Notre Dame Legal History Colloquium to Begin Third Year of Meetings, Now Accepting Presenter A...

Mark Hanna has published From Claudette Colvin’s expectation to bus desegregation in Browder v Gayle in the American Journal of Legal His...

Harvard Law 's notice of Tanner Allread , newly appointed to the faculty. Andrea Scoseria Katz and Jane Manners have posted “Lost to ...

Khiara M. Bridges, UC Berkeley School of Law , has published the review essay Originalism Without History in the Yale Law Journal : Origina...

Michael Allan Wolf, University of Florida Levin College of Law , has posted Property Law as History , which is forthcoming in The Urban Lawy...

Lutz-Christian Wolff, Chinese University of Hong Kong , has published an article entitled Legal History and Comparative Law: Just the Flip S...

Ger Coffey, University of Limerick , has posted A History of the Common Law Double Jeopardy Principle: From Classical Antiquity to Modern Er...

Thomas A. Smith, University of San Diego School of Law , has posted a reconsideration of Eire Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, entitled, Overruled...

An article of interest from Britney Wilson (New York Law School): " The Disability History of Brown v. Board of Education ," Wash...

Rosa Goluboff and G. Edward White reflect on the enduring legacy of the Declaration of Independence ( Virginia Law ).  William Novak refl...

Daimeon Shanks-Dumont , a Ph.D. Candidate in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the  University of California, Berkeley, School ...

Rachel Bayefsky, UVA Law , has published Tradition and Feminism in Constitutional Rights Adjudication in the Virginia Law Review : In recen...

Jerry L. Anderson, Drake University Law School , has posted The Battle for Lower Manhattan: Trinity Church versus the Bogardus Heirs : Trini...

David Singh Grewal, Sanjay G. Reddy , and Sarang A. Shah have published The Hidden Politics of ‘Affordability’: Administrative Law and the ...

[Via H-Law , we have the following CFP.  DRE] Call for Proposals: The Seventh Biennial Conference of the International Society for Chinese L...

Jamie Grischkan, Fordham Law , has published The Accidental Regulator in Chief: The Federal Reserve’s Path to Power in the FIU Law Review :...

[We have the following announcement of a new series, Oxford Bibliographies in Legal History , edited by Gautham Rao , the former Editor-in-C...

Cynthia Nicoletti joins Duke Law faculty ( Duke Law ).     The National Archives of Asunción has opened the exhibit "Four Times of t...

William Howard Taft ( LC ) Andrea Scoseria Katz on "Taft at the Beach: What the Supreme Court Misses About a Key Unitary Executive Pre...

Victoria Nourse, Georgetown Law , has published American Public Law Revolution in the UCLA Law Review : The Supreme Court has birthed a pub...

Stephen Skinner, University of Exeter , has published Subversion and the Special Tribunal for the Defence of the State in Fascist Italy, 192...

We have the following ASLH-related announcement: We invite historians of all time periods and regions to register their interest in attendin...

Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College Law School , has posted The Blessings of Liberty and Bills of Rights , which will appear in National Const...

Comparative Legal History 14:1 (2026) has been published.  Editorial David Schorr & Agustín Parise Comparative law today – tomes, theme...

[We have word of the following open-access publication in the Global Perspectives on Legal History series of the Max Planck Institute for Le...

Rebecca Probert, University of Exeter, has published two companion volumes with Hart/Bloomsbury.  The first is Double Trouble: Bigamy and th...

K.D. Ewing and Andrew Moretta have published Labour Law, the Cold War, and the Right to Strike: A Legal and Political History of Order 130...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] Taxation, Racial Capitalism, and the International Rule of Law: From Colonial Slavery to Global G...

The three-volume Cambridge History of the American Revolution , edited Marjoleine Kars, Michael A. McDonnell , Andrew M. Schocket , was publ...