Legal History Blog

We recently heard from our resident advice guru, Ms. Peppercorn, about the difficulties of starting a second book. This is a post about ...

[We have following Call for Papers for Law's Empire? Justice, Law & Colonialism , which we understand for its convenors, Raza Saeed ...

We recently learned that When God Demands Blood: Unusual Minds and the Troubled Juridical Ties of Religion, Madness, and Culpability , Unive...

Modernism and Antimodernism in the Federal Courts: Reflections on the Federal District Court for the District of Connecticut on the 100th An...

[by Anne Kornhauser] How did a group of German émigré intellectuals end up in a book about American liberalism and the rise of the levi...

Kurt T. Lash, University of Illinois College of Law , has posted The Due Process Understanding of the 1866 Civil Rights Act :     Scholar...

The Spring 2016 line-up for NYU’s Legal History Colloquium has been announced.  With the exception of Professor Hill’s session, which will ...

New from the University of North Carolina Press: The Wilmington Ten : Violence, Injustice, and the Rise of Black Politics in the 1970s (Ja...

In today’s Washington Post , John Kelly revisits Washington Confidential (1951), by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, two bottom-feeding journal...

Here's another short version of the Sunday Book Roundup: Richard Posner has an  excerpt in Salon  from his book Divergent Paths: The ...

Readers in Atlanta for the annual meeting of the American Historical Association might consider attending Session 268, Irregular Armed Confl...

The National History Center has guides to research in archives in and around Washington, DC, including the Folger Shakespeare Library, the...

The Center for Law, Society and Culture at Indiana University Maurer School of Law has posted the following call for applications : Indi...

[We have the following announcement.] Legal Spaces in “ Rechtsgeschichte –Legal History 23."  Journal of the Max Planck Institute for...

Laura M. Weinrib, University of Chicago Law School, has posted Freedom of Conscience in War Time: World War I and the Civil Liberties Path ...

Another new release from New York University Press: Trotskyists on Trial: Free Speech and Political Persecution Since the Age of FDR (Janua...

We have to note the passing today of the path-breaking and history-making lawyer and judge, Judith S. Kaye , as reported on the website of ...

[We have the following announcement.] The editors of Law & Social Inquiry are pleased to announce our annual competition for the best...

"Separation of Powers and the Independent Counsel: Morrison v. Olson Revisited," a program of the Historical Society for the Dist...

Nicholas Aroney, University of Queensland TC Beirne School of Law, Peter Gerangelos, University of Sydney Faculty of Law, Sarah Murray, Univ...

New from New York University Press: Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality (November 2015), by Katherine Franke (Columbia University)....

[We're moving this up because the deadline of January 15, 2016 is fast approaching.  Register now!] The Institute for Constitutional ...

We hear from Danaya C. Wright, University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law , that anyone attending the AALS conference this weeked...

Re-posting to note that the deadline for applications has been extended to January 15, 2016. [We have the following call for papers.] Co...

[Via Legal Theory Blog , we have the following announcement.] The Center for the Constitution at Georgetown Law will host the Originalism ...

New from the University of Chicago Press: The Power to Die: Slavery and Suicide in British North America (2015), by Terri L. Snyder (Cali...

[by Anne Kornhauser] First, a hearty thank you to Karen, Dan, and company for inviting me to be a guest blogger on this superb site. I ...

New from the University of Washington Press: The Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Choson Korea (January 2016) ...

We have the following announcement: In commemoration of the 75th anniversary of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" Spee...

Out later this year but available for preorder now from the Johns Hopkins University Press is The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Testing t...

Common-Place  has a published its latest issue with three new reviews for LHB readers. The first is a review of Gateway to Freedom: The Hi...

Via Jotwell, we have word of a new release from Oxford University Press: The Futility of Law and Development: China and the Dangers of Expor...

Happy new year! We are delighted to ring in 2016 with the news that Anne Kornhauser will join us as a guest blogger for the month of Januar...

Umakanth Varottil, National University of Singapore Faculty of Law , has posted Corporate Law in Colonial India: Rise and Demise of the Mana...