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Weekend Roundup

15h ago·2 min read·364 words

Pontz on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and King's Bench Jurisdiction

1d ago·3 min read·472 words

De Bianco on Harry Anslinger and Timothy Leary

1d ago·1 min read·200 words

Steinfeld on the Electors Clause

1d ago·4 min read·780 words

History at the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference

1d ago·2 min read·209 words

Ablavsky on State Criminal Jurisdiction in Indian Country

2d ago·2 min read·372 words

Larson's New History of the Declaration of Independence

2d ago·2 min read·307 words

CFP: Inclusion, Exclusion, and Resistance in the Renaissance World

3d ago·2 min read·278 words

Ancient Criminal Law: A Global Perspective

3d ago·2 min read·263 words

Keener and Whittington on Birthright Citizenship

4d ago·2 min read·277 words

Parkinson's "Tyrants and Rogues"

4d ago·2 min read·350 words

Altschuler's "Before Disability"

4d ago·2 min read·294 words

Farbman, "Towns or Counties"

5d ago·3 min read·425 words

Weekend Roundup

Jun 13·2 min read·366 words

Upham's "Taking American Citizenship Seriously"

Jun 12·2 min read·205 words

Two HLR Notes: Montesquieu and "Historical Absence"

Jun 12·2 min read·340 words

Del Bianco on Prohibition and the Fourth Amendment

Jun 11·2 min read·301 words

YJLH 36.6: A Festschrift for Gordon Wood

Jun 10·2 min read·318 words

Wells on Ecclesiastical Courts in the Early American Republic

Jun 9·2 min read·261 words

Daniel on the Affinity of Lawyers and History

Jun 8·2 min read·346 words

Weekend Roundup

Jun 6·1 min read·174 words

Niedrist on Criminal Justice in Habsburg Austria

Jun 5·1 min read·157 words

Legal History at the American Political History Conference, June 4-6

Jun 4·3 min read·596 words

ASLH "New Works" Series

Jun 4·2 min read·393 words

Kreis on Birthright Citizenship and the Anglo-American Constitution

Jun 4·2 min read·241 words

CFP: European Society for Comparative Legal History

Jun 3·4 min read·637 words

Milligan on the Affirmative Duty of Racial Repair

Jun 3·2 min read·299 words

Oman on Nauvoo's 1841 Religious Freedom Ordinance

Jun 2·2 min read·344 words

Anna Moscowitz Kross (1891-1979)

Jun 1·13 min read·2514 words

Weekend Roundup

May 30·2 min read·240 words

Bray and Bamzai on the Origins of Criminal Contempt

May 29·2 min read·228 words

Guerra-Pujol on Two Views of Miller v. Schoene

May 29·1 min read·184 words

do Vale Alves on Latin American Women's Rights and Family Law

May 28·1 min read·188 words

Mumford on Holmes and Anglo-American Equity

May 28·1 min read·188 words

LSA James Willard Hurst Book Prize to Mayeri for "Marital Privilege"

May 27·2 min read·221 words

Mortenson on Text and Purpose in Anglo-American Law

May 27·2 min read·295 words

Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition

May 26·2 min read·268 words

Byrne's "Law in the New Democracy" and Book Launch

May 25·2 min read·387 words

Weekend Roundup

May 23·2 min read·348 words

Reynolds on the Federal Judiciary and Prison Administrators

May 22·2 min read·317 words

Solomine and Brodersen on Goesaert v. Cleary

May 22·2 min read·385 words

Deadline Approaching: ASLH Student Research Colloquium

May 22·2 min read·308 words

Penna's "Byzantine Law" and Book Launch

May 21·2 min read·215 words

A Constitutional History of EU Law

May 21·2 min read·373 words

Peterson on Text and "the Founding"

May 20·2 min read·357 words

A Symposium on Constitutional Interpretation

May 20·1 min read·144 words

Rao's "White Power"

May 19·2 min read·257 words

JACH (Spring 2026)

May 18·5 min read·843 words

Weekend Roundup

May 16·2 min read·304 words

Skorup on the Supreme Court's Korematsu Era

May 15·2 min read·225 words

The National Bankruptcy Archives

May 14·1 min read·125 words

Forbath and Fishkin on the New Deal, Oligarchy and the Supreme Court

May 14·1 min read·174 words

Queering Private Law Conference

May 13·1 min read·4 words

The Fine Script: Legal Marginalia, 1100-1700

May 13·1 min read·6 words

LHB 15,000

May 12·1 min read·2 words

Mazzone on the Removal under the Confederate Constitution

May 12·1 min read·8 words

Todd and Thunder's "United States Attorneys for the District of Columbia"

May 11·1 min read·11 words

Weekend Roundup

May 9·1 min read·2 words

Zhang on Statutory Interpretation and the Constitution

May 8·1 min read·7 words

Pope on Class and the Original Meanings of the 13th and 14th Amendments

May 8·1 min read·13 words

Gindis and Medema on the Origins of the Law and Economics Movement

May 7·1 min read·12 words

Alan Rodger Postgraduate Visiting Researcher

May 6·1 min read·5 words

Federal History 18

May 6·1 min read·3 words

Scooter Libby Trial at DCCHS

May 5·1 min read·5 words

Claussen and Meyer on the Foreign Commerce Power

May 5·1 min read·8 words

Funes Reviews Funk's "Law's Machinery"

May 4·1 min read·5 words

Weekend Roundup

May 2·1 min read·2 words

Blackman on Special Counsels before Watergate

May 1·1 min read·6 words

Rudolph on Colonialism and Blackstone's Family Wealth

May 1·1 min read·7 words

Petipeti on Continuity in Congolese Constitutional History

May 1·1 min read·7 words

Grimm on German Constitutional History since 1949

Apr 30·1 min read·7 words

Ponomarenko on Executive Reorganization

Apr 30·1 min read·4 words

Siegel & Ziegler, "Dismantling Equality Rights Through 'Biological-Sex' Talk"

Apr 29·1 min read·9 words

DeFraia on Branzburg's Distortion of Policy and History

Apr 29·1 min read·8 words

Disabilities and Women in Ancient Rome

Apr 28·1 min read·6 words

Durrani, "Industrial Patent Law"

Apr 27·1 min read·4 words

Bank's "High Rates and Low Taxes"

Apr 27·1 min read·6 words

Weekend Roundup

Apr 25·1 min read·2 words

Jones and Tani, "Unwanted Histories" -- on History and Constitutional Decisionmaking

Apr 24·1 min read·11 words

Basile on the 19th-Century Turn to Textualism

Apr 23·1 min read·7 words

Tolson's "In Congress We Trust?"

Apr 23·1 min read·5 words

U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs on Internet Archive

Apr 22·1 min read·9 words

Berger-Howe Fellowship to Reiss

Apr 22·1 min read·4 words

Stenlund on Sweden, Rule-of-Law Talk, and the US Right

Apr 21·1 min read·9 words

ASLH 2026 Registration Open

Apr 20·1 min read·4 words

Weekend Roundup

Apr 18·1 min read·2 words

Amorosa and Suuronen on Schmitt and Vitoria

Apr 17·1 min read·7 words

The Decline and Fall of the State Executive Council

Apr 17·1 min read·9 words

Allread, "Indigenous Constitutionalism"

Apr 16·1 min read·3 words

Wieboldt on Catholic Legal Thought and First Amendment Originalism

Apr 16·1 min read·9 words

Kent on the Interwar Development of American Economic Sanctions

Apr 15·1 min read·9 words

New Resource: The Supreme Court Indian Law Database

Apr 14·1 min read·8 words

Widener on Greenleaf's Confessions and Corbin's Complaint

Apr 14·1 min read·7 words

Durrani, "Before Invention"

Apr 14·1 min read·3 words

Lake on Men's Suits for Sexual Misconduct Defamation

Apr 13·1 min read·8 words

Weekend Roundup

Apr 11·1 min read·2 words

Kohtz on a Successful Challenge to an Indian Boarding School

Apr 10·1 min read·10 words

Ritger's "Houses of Correction"

Apr 9·1 min read·4 words

Sanders, "Parliament's American Shadow"

Apr 9·1 min read·4 words

OAH Binkley Stephenson Award to Lim

Apr 8·1 min read·6 words

OAH Merle Curti Award to Lew-Williams for "John Doe Chinaman"

Apr 8·1 min read·10 words

Hamilton's "Nothing Less Than Equality"

Apr 8·1 min read·5 words

Zelizer, ed., "The Presidency of Joseph R. Biden: A First Historical Assessment"

Apr 7·1 min read·12 words

OAH Ellis Hawley Prize to Shanahan for "Disparate Regimes"

Apr 7·1 min read·9 words

OAH Award for Contributions to Public Policy to Cornell, Ziegler

Apr 7·1 min read·10 words

William E. Nelson Memorial Celebration

Apr 7·1 min read·5 words

Jones on the Fugitive Slave Law and Public Rights

Apr 6·1 min read·9 words

ICS Seminar: Presidential Power

Apr 6·1 min read·4 words

Sunday Roundup

Apr 5·1 min read·2 words

Weekend Roundup

Apr 4·1 min read·2 words

Dardini on the 14th Amendment, Human Rights, and American Samoa

Apr 3·1 min read·10 words

Lindley on the Law of Certiorari

Apr 3·1 min read·6 words

ASLH "In Memoriam" for William E. Nelson

Apr 3·1 min read·7 words

Whittington and Heilpern on "Subject to the Jurisdiction of"

Apr 2·1 min read·9 words

Witte and Pin's "Legal Foundations of Religious Freedom"

Apr 2·1 min read·8 words

Birthright Citizenship Roundup

Apr 1·1 min read·3 words

Eilbert on 20th-Century Public Administration

Mar 31·1 min read·5 words

CLH News

Mar 30·1 min read·2 words

Weekend Roundup

Mar 28·1 min read·2 words

Lee on Birthright Citizenship and Residence

Mar 27·1 min read·6 words

Lash Responds to Ramsey on Birthright Citizenship and Allegiance

Mar 27·1 min read·9 words

AJLH 64:4

Mar 26·1 min read·2 words

Global Dissertation Prize

Mar 25·1 min read·3 words

LHR 44:1

Mar 24·1 min read·2 words

Newman's "Law and Justice in Song"

Mar 24·1 min read·6 words

Ackerman on the Democratic Basis of Humphrey's Executor

Mar 24·1 min read·8 words

Wells on the Origins of the Limited Liability Partnership

Mar 23·1 min read·9 words

Weekend Roundup

Mar 21·1 min read·2 words

Engstrom et al. on Managerial Courts

Mar 20·1 min read·6 words

Schonthal's "Courts, Constitutions and Karma"

Mar 19·1 min read·5 words

Law's "Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship"

Mar 18·1 min read·8 words

The Witte Backlist

Mar 17·1 min read·3 words

Mark on Emergencies and Civil Disobelience in Israel, 1948-1954

Mar 16·1 min read·9 words

Birnhack on Patents in Mandate Palestine

Mar 16·1 min read·6 words

Weekend Roundup

Mar 14·1 min read·2 words

Borwegen and Mehrotra on the OBBBA's Tax Provisions in Historical Perspective

Mar 13·1 min read·11 words

Siegel on the Originalist Case for Prenatal Personhood

Mar 13·1 min read·8 words

Schmidt and Funk on the Supreme Court's "Equity Docket"

Mar 13·1 min read·9 words

Sobkowski on Trump and Youngstown

Mar 13·1 min read·5 words

The Decline of Congress: An ICH Seminar

Mar 12·1 min read·7 words

The YJLH Symposium on Gienapp's "Against Constitutional Originalism"

Mar 12·1 min read·8 words

An Essay Collection on Work, Capitalism and Democracy Since the New Deal

Mar 12·1 min read·12 words

Bauer to Lecture on Reparations for Victims of Brazil's Dictatorship

Mar 11·1 min read·10 words

Tycko's "Captured Consent"

Mar 11·1 min read·3 words

Kessler on Separation of Powers and the Draft

Mar 10·1 min read·8 words

Murray on Judicial Review for Error of Fact

Mar 10·1 min read·8 words

Davies on Pollock's Humor

Mar 9·1 min read·4 words

A Special Issue on Legal Humor

Mar 9·1 min read·6 words

Allison Tirres to Co-Edit AJLH

Mar 9·1 min read·5 words

MPI Seeks a Doctoral Student

Mar 8·1 min read·5 words

US Legal History VAP at University of Florida

Mar 8·1 min read·8 words

Weekend Roundup

Mar 7·1 min read·2 words

Cannan on the King of the Treatise Writers

Mar 6·1 min read·8 words

Leshem on Ships as Legal Persons

Mar 6·1 min read·6 words

Aikin on US v. Neeley

Mar 5·1 min read·5 words

Gans on Black Conventions during Reconstruction

Mar 5·1 min read·6 words

White on Souter

Mar 4·1 min read·3 words

CFP: Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians

Mar 3·1 min read·7 words

"Performing Law"

Mar 2·1 min read·2 words

Chowdhury to Lecture on the British Constitution, Capitalism and Constitutional Change

Mar 2·1 min read·11 words

Weekend Roundup

Feb 28·1 min read·2 words

Manners and Menand on the Removal Power

Feb 27·1 min read·7 words

Price on Congress's "Power of the Purse"

Feb 27·1 min read·7 words

Baronia et al. on Private Enforcement at the Founding

Feb 27·1 min read·9 words

Hayes on Antitrust Reform in Postwar Japan

Feb 27·1 min read·7 words

Strange on Penal Expertise and the Death Penalty in the 1950s

Feb 26·1 min read·11 words

MAH: Symposium on Birthright Citizenship

Feb 25·1 min read·5 words

Lamoreaux and Eisenberg on Patents and Separation of Powers

Feb 24·1 min read·9 words

JCWE: Historians of Crisis in a Moment of Crisis

Feb 24·1 min read·9 words

Larsen and McSweeney on the Judicial Use of Medieval Treatises

Feb 23·1 min read·10 words

Karl Llewellyn Archive at the Perelman Centre in Brussels

Feb 23·1 min read·9 words

Weekend Roundup

Feb 21·1 min read·2 words

Dripps on Sentencing Discretion

Feb 20·1 min read·4 words

CFP: Forum on International Legal History & Philosophy

Feb 20·1 min read·8 words

Colburn on Navigable Waters

Feb 20·1 min read·4 words

"Essays on the History of Equity"

Feb 20·1 min read·6 words

The Julien Mezey Dissertation Award

Feb 19·1 min read·5 words

Barnett and Barnett on the Burwood Ejectment Case

Feb 19·1 min read·8 words

Siddali to Speak on 19th-Century US Constitutions in Comparative Perspective

Feb 18·1 min read·10 words

Reynolds's "Instruments of Peacemaking 1918-1941"

Feb 18·1 min read·5 words

Blackhawk on Time and the Constitution

Feb 17·1 min read·6 words

JACH (Winter 2026)

Feb 17·1 min read·3 words

Penningroth in Conversation at the University of Nebraska

Feb 16·1 min read·8 words

Ancient Criminal Law: A Global Perspective

Feb 16·1 min read·6 words

Sunday Roundup

Feb 15·1 min read·2 words

Weekend Roundup

Feb 14·1 min read·2 words

Christensen-Nugues on Forced Marriages and the Apostolic Penitentiary

Feb 13·1 min read·8 words

Cahn, Eichner, and Ziegler on Parental Consent and Minors' Rights

Feb 13·1 min read·10 words

James's "Laws of All the Greeks"

Feb 12·1 min read·6 words

Li's "Supreme Pressure"

Feb 11·1 min read·3 words

Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium

Feb 11·1 min read·6 words

Fritz on the States as Monitors of the Federal Government

Feb 10·1 min read·10 words

Ramsey on Birthright Citizenship

Feb 10·1 min read·4 words

Eldridge, Ireland and Derry's "Celebrating Women in Legal History"

Feb 10·1 min read·9 words

Thomas's Review Essay on the American Administrative State

Feb 9·1 min read·8 words

CFP: 6th Asian Legal History Conference

Feb 9·1 min read·6 words

Sunday Roundup

Feb 8·1 min read·2 words

Weekend Roundup

Feb 7·1 min read·2 words

Sherman and Nelson on the Weak Historical Case for Regulating Occupational Speech

Feb 6·1 min read·12 words

Blumm on the Rise and Fall of Environmental Law

Feb 6·1 min read·9 words

Gienapp Responds to Critics

Feb 6·1 min read·4 words

UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Law & Society Speaker Series: Spring 2026 Lineup

Feb 6·1 min read·15 words

Street & Runyon, "The Library of Congress at a Crossroads: Executive Overreach and the Future of Public Knowledge"

Feb 5·1 min read·18 words

Gailie on Race and the NY Constitution of 1821

Feb 5·1 min read·9 words

Northwestern Legal History Colloquium: Spring 2026 Lineup

Feb 4·1 min read·7 words