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Malick W. Ghachem spotted the posting , by DOJ’s Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section, on USAJOBS. Deadline: Thursday, January 7,...

Laura Weinrib reviews After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate  by Mary Ziegler (Harvard University Press) for The New Rambler . ...

In past posts, I described how this book came about, summarized the portion of the work that deals with the Constitution of Cádiz in its pen...

Oxford Journals announces that the backlist of the American Journal of Legal History is now available on its website. The Historical ...

Eric C. Nystrom, Arizona State University , and David S. Tanenhaus, William S. Boyd School of Law, UNLV , have posted The Future of Digital ...

Philip N. Pettit, Princeton University,  Department of Political Science , has posted Two Republication Traditions , which appears in Republ...

The University of Virginia Press has just published  Of Courtiers And Kings: More Stories Of Supreme Court Law Clerks and Their Justices , e...

Regime Change and Legal Change: The Legacy of Mexico's Second Empire , by Peter L Reich , Whittier Law School , is now available on the ...

Mark Elliott Budnitz , Professor Emeritus, Georgia State University College of Law, has posted The National Consumer Law Center From Its Bi...

The Organization of American Historians (OAH) invites submissions for its 2017 meeting, to be held in New Orleans, April 6-9, 2017. Proposa...

[We have the following CFP from the ASLH website .] The 2016 annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History will take place i...

Christopher Beauchamp, Brooklyn Law School , has posted The First Patent Litigation Explosion , which is forthcoming next year in volume 125...

In my last post, I discussed various aspects of the Constitution of Cádiz from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. These developments are fou...

The Spring 2016 schedule for the Washington History Seminar is out, which much legal history thereon.  The seminar meets Mondays, 4:00pm-5:...

New from Harvard University Press: Runaway Wives, Urban Crimes, and Survival Tactics in Wartime Beijing, 1937–1949 (Sept. 2015), by Zhao Ma...

See you there? An author talk by Stanley Fish on Think Again: Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law, and Educati...

We noted that SSRN paper by Fred R. Shapiro and Julie Graves Krishnaswami revising the history of the Blue Book.  So did Adam Liptak in ...

FDR, 1938 ( credit ) [We have the following press release from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.] On Monday...

James R. Conde and Michael Greve, George Mason University School of Law , have posted Yakus and the Administrative State . In Yakus v. U...

New from Southern Illinois University Press: Lincoln, the Law, and Presidential Leadership (Nov. 2015), edited by Charles M. Hubbard (Lin...

[In lieu of a Sunday Book Roundup, we have a book review.   Emil A. Ricci, Department of History, Villanova University , has sent us his re...

Nuremberg Trial, Palace of Justice ( credit ) John Q. Barrett, St. John's University School of Law , has posted his remarks at an ev...

HNN’s recent roundup, Racist Symbols: Latest Development. Jeanne Theoharis, Brooklyn College , posted Looking Back on the Bus Boycott ...

New from McGill-Queen's University Press: Keeping Promises: The Royal Proclamation of 1763, Aboriginal Rights, and Treaties in Canada (...

My approach to this book was the same as my book on Latin American private law, Latin American Law: A History of Private Law and Institution...

D. A. Jeremy Telman, Valparaiso University Law School , has posted Originalism: A Thing Worth Doing . . . , which is forthcoming in volume 4...

Fred R. Shapiro and Julie Graves Krishnaswami, Yale Law School , have posted The Secret History of the Bluebook , which is forthcoming in v...

We have received sad news: Joseph Webb McKnight , Professor Emeritus of Law and Larry and Jane Harlan Faculty Fellow Emeritus at Southern ...

[We have the following announcement from the National History Center.] Congressional Briefing: History of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 T...

Next up in the Washington History Seminar is Catastrophic Diplomacy: The History of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance , by Julia Irwin, Univ...

Angela Walch, St. Mary's University School of Law, has posted A Spurious Solution to a Genuine Problem: An In-Depth Look at the Import ...

[Note that the deadline for submissions in this CFP is Friday, December 4 .] The Institute for Political History, the Journal of Policy Hi...

Thank you for the warm welcome, Dan and Legal History Blog.  I am delighted to spend this month as a guest and, as requested, to tell you ab...