By Unknown Wednesday, August 31, 2016 Lectures Workshops and Announcements Originalism and the Founding Period Thomas Jefferson's Democratic Constitutionalism: An ICH Seminar [We hear that there are still some seats available for this seminar, so we are moving this up. If you are interested, please sign up right...
By Unknown Tuesday, August 30, 2016 Constitutional studies Originalism and the Founding Period Scholarship -- Articles and essays Christiansen on Originalism in the State Courts Jeremy M. Christiansen has posted Originalism: The Primary Canon of State Constitutional Interpretation , which is forthcoming in the Georg...
By Unknown 6:45 AM Bloggers Welcome, Gautham Rao! We are delighted to announce that Gautham Rao will be joining us as a guest blogger over the next month. credit Rao is an Assistant Profess...
By Unknown Monday, August 29, 2016 Lectures Workshops and Announcements Center for the Study of Law and Society Speaker Series The Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley has posted the lineup for its Fall 2016 Speaker Serie...
By Unknown 6:30 AM Asia Criminal Procedure Empire Scholarship -- Articles and essays Plater and Crofts on Pardoning Australian Bushrangers David Plater, University of Tasmania , Faculty of Law, and Penny Crofts, University of Technology Sydney , Faculty of Law, have posted Bushr...
By Unknown Sunday, August 28, 2016 Europe Lectures Workshops and Announcements Harvard Law School European Legal History Workshop Here is the lineup for the public sessions of the Harvard Law School European Legal History Workshop : Monday, September 26 : Ari Bryen – “...
By Unknown 12:00 AM Sunday Book Review Roundup There’s not a hot summer week that goes by without a new review of Jeffrey Toobin’s American Heiress , which made its way to the pages of T...
By Unknown Saturday, August 27, 2016 Archives and Web Resources Conferences and Calls for Papers Weekend Roundup The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians awards two annual book prizes , both for first books. The deadline for submissions is Nov.1, 2...
By Unknown Friday, August 26, 2016 Property Teaching Meier on Teaching Pierson v. Post Oh, you know I like this one! And so, I'm sure, does Angela Fernandez !! Just in time for the new academic year, Luke Meier, Baylor...
By Unknown 6:30 AM ASLH ASLH Balloting Open By now, members of the American Society for Legal History with email addresses should have received an email and link to vote for members o...
By Unknown Thursday, August 25, 2016 Conferences and Calls for Papers Environmental Law Ethnicity Immigration and Citizenship Indian Law Reproductive Rights UNL Symposium: Legal Borderlands in the North American West The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Carroll R. Pauley Symposium (October 6-7, 2016) will be devoted to legal history this year. The topic is...
By Unknown 5:10 PM Blood Diamonds Democratic Republic of Congo Blood-Diamonds: The International Response By Christine N. Armstrong Christine Armstrong graduated this spring from Albany Law School. She did her undergraduate work at Siena College,...
By Unknown 8:00 AM Legal education The Litchfield Law School, on Law.com Karen Sloan , The Most Important Law School You’ve Probably Never Heard Of , on Law.com: The sign out front says it’s America’s first law s...
By Unknown Wednesday, August 24, 2016 Bloggers Colonialism Disability Environmental Law Gender Health law History of Science History of Technology Intellectual Property Law and Society Prisons Reproductive Rights Sexuality Social media Legal history meets the History of Science+ The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 ( credit ) Are you working on the legal history of disasters, poisoning, animals, inventions, travel, hospita...