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Weekend Roundup

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

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De Bianco on Harry Anslinger and Timothy Leary

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Steinfeld on the Electors Clause

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History at the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference

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Ablavsky on State Criminal Jurisdiction in Indian Country

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Larson's New History of the Declaration of Independence

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

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Ancient Criminal Law: A Global Perspective

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Keener and Whittington on Birthright Citizenship

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Parkinson's "Tyrants and Rogues"

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Altschuler's "Before Disability"

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Farbman, "Towns or Counties"

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Weekend Roundup

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Upham's "Taking American Citizenship Seriously"

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Two HLR Notes: Montesquieu and "Historical Absence"

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Del Bianco on Prohibition and the Fourth Amendment

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YJLH 36.6: A Festschrift for Gordon Wood

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Wells on Ecclesiastical Courts in the Early American Republic

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Daniel on the Affinity of Lawyers and History

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Weekend Roundup

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Niedrist on Criminal Justice in Habsburg Austria

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

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ASLH "New Works" Series

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Kreis on Birthright Citizenship and the Anglo-American Constitution

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CFP: European Society for Comparative Legal History

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Milligan on the Affirmative Duty of Racial Repair

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Oman on Nauvoo's 1841 Religious Freedom Ordinance

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Anna Moscowitz Kross (1891-1979)

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Weekend Roundup

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Bray and Bamzai on the Origins of Criminal Contempt

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Guerra-Pujol on Two Views of Miller v. Schoene

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

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Mumford on Holmes and Anglo-American Equity

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

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Mortenson on Text and Purpose in Anglo-American Law

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Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition

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

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Weekend Roundup

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Reynolds on the Federal Judiciary and Prison Administrators

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Solomine and Brodersen on Goesaert v. Cleary

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Deadline Approaching: ASLH Student Research Colloquium

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Penna's "Byzantine Law" and Book Launch

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A Constitutional History of EU Law

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Peterson on Text and "the Founding"

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A Symposium on Constitutional Interpretation

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Rao's "White Power"

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JACH (Spring 2026)

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Weekend Roundup

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Skorup on the Supreme Court's Korematsu Era

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The National Bankruptcy Archives

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

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Queering Private Law Conference

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The Fine Script: Legal Marginalia, 1100-1700

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LHB 15,000

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Mazzone on the Removal under the Confederate Constitution

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

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Weekend Roundup

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Zhang on Statutory Interpretation and the Constitution

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

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

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Alan Rodger Postgraduate Visiting Researcher

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Federal History 18

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Scooter Libby Trial at DCCHS

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Claussen and Meyer on the Foreign Commerce Power

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Funes Reviews Funk's "Law's Machinery"

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Weekend Roundup

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Blackman on Special Counsels before Watergate

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Rudolph on Colonialism and Blackstone's Family Wealth

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Petipeti on Continuity in Congolese Constitutional History

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Grimm on German Constitutional History since 1949

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Ponomarenko on Executive Reorganization

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

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DeFraia on Branzburg's Distortion of Policy and History

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Disabilities and Women in Ancient Rome

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Durrani, "Industrial Patent Law"

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Bank's "High Rates and Low Taxes"

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Weekend Roundup

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

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Basile on the 19th-Century Turn to Textualism

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Tolson's "In Congress We Trust?"

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

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Berger-Howe Fellowship to Reiss

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

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ASLH 2026 Registration Open

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Weekend Roundup

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Amorosa and Suuronen on Schmitt and Vitoria

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The Decline and Fall of the State Executive Council

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Allread, "Indigenous Constitutionalism"

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Wieboldt on Catholic Legal Thought and First Amendment Originalism

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Kent on the Interwar Development of American Economic Sanctions

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New Resource: The Supreme Court Indian Law Database

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Widener on Greenleaf's Confessions and Corbin's Complaint

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Durrani, "Before Invention"

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Lake on Men's Suits for Sexual Misconduct Defamation

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Weekend Roundup

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Kohtz on a Successful Challenge to an Indian Boarding School

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Ritger's "Houses of Correction"

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Sanders, "Parliament's American Shadow"

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OAH Binkley Stephenson Award to Lim

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

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Hamilton's "Nothing Less Than Equality"

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

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OAH Ellis Hawley Prize to Shanahan for "Disparate Regimes"

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OAH Award for Contributions to Public Policy to Cornell, Ziegler

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William E. Nelson Memorial Celebration

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Jones on the Fugitive Slave Law and Public Rights

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ICS Seminar: Presidential Power

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Sunday Roundup

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Weekend Roundup

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

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Lindley on the Law of Certiorari

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ASLH "In Memoriam" for William E. Nelson

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Whittington and Heilpern on "Subject to the Jurisdiction of"

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

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Birthright Citizenship Roundup

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Eilbert on 20th-Century Public Administration

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CLH News

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Weekend Roundup

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Lee on Birthright Citizenship and Residence

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Lash Responds to Ramsey on Birthright Citizenship and Allegiance

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AJLH 64:4

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Global Dissertation Prize

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LHR 44:1

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Newman's "Law and Justice in Song"

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Ackerman on the Democratic Basis of Humphrey's Executor

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Wells on the Origins of the Limited Liability Partnership

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Weekend Roundup

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Engstrom et al. on Managerial Courts

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Schonthal's "Courts, Constitutions and Karma"

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

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The Witte Backlist

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

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Birnhack on Patents in Mandate Palestine

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Weekend Roundup

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

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Siegel on the Originalist Case for Prenatal Personhood

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

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Sobkowski on Trump and Youngstown

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The Decline of Congress: An ICH Seminar

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

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

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

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Tycko's "Captured Consent"

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Kessler on Separation of Powers and the Draft

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Murray on Judicial Review for Error of Fact

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Davies on Pollock's Humor

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A Special Issue on Legal Humor

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Allison Tirres to Co-Edit AJLH

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MPI Seeks a Doctoral Student

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US Legal History VAP at University of Florida

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Weekend Roundup

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Cannan on the King of the Treatise Writers

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Leshem on Ships as Legal Persons

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Aikin on US v. Neeley

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Gans on Black Conventions during Reconstruction

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White on Souter

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CFP: Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians

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"Performing Law"

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

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Weekend Roundup

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Manners and Menand on the Removal Power

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Price on Congress's "Power of the Purse"

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Baronia et al. on Private Enforcement at the Founding

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Hayes on Antitrust Reform in Postwar Japan

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

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MAH: Symposium on Birthright Citizenship

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Lamoreaux and Eisenberg on Patents and Separation of Powers

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JCWE: Historians of Crisis in a Moment of Crisis

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Larsen and McSweeney on the Judicial Use of Medieval Treatises

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Karl Llewellyn Archive at the Perelman Centre in Brussels

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Weekend Roundup

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Dripps on Sentencing Discretion

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CFP: Forum on International Legal History & Philosophy

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Colburn on Navigable Waters

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"Essays on the History of Equity"

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The Julien Mezey Dissertation Award

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Barnett and Barnett on the Burwood Ejectment Case

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

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Reynolds's "Instruments of Peacemaking 1918-1941"

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Blackhawk on Time and the Constitution

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JACH (Winter 2026)

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Penningroth in Conversation at the University of Nebraska

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Ancient Criminal Law: A Global Perspective

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Sunday Roundup

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Weekend Roundup

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Christensen-Nugues on Forced Marriages and the Apostolic Penitentiary

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

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James's "Laws of All the Greeks"

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Li's "Supreme Pressure"

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Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium

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Fritz on the States as Monitors of the Federal Government

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Ramsey on Birthright Citizenship

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

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Thomas's Review Essay on the American Administrative State

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CFP: 6th Asian Legal History Conference

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Sunday Roundup

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Weekend Roundup

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

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Blumm on the Rise and Fall of Environmental Law

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Gienapp Responds to Critics

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

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

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Gailie on Race and the NY Constitution of 1821

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Northwestern Legal History Colloquium: Spring 2026 Lineup

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