By Unknown Wednesday, September 7, 2016 Lectures Workshops and Announcements UC Berkeley Legal History Colloquium It is a pleasure to announce the speakers for the University of California, Berkeley Fall 2016 Legal History Colloquium, which I am co-runn...
By Unknown 11:00 AM Constitutional studies Latin America military Scholarship -- Articles and essays Cajas-Sarria on a Columbian Gebneral's Constitutional Justice Mario Alberto Cajas-Sarria, Icesi University Law School, Cali, Colombia , has published The Constitutional Justice of General Gustavo Rojas ...
By Unknown 10:17 AM Cybercrime Interpol Tribunal on Cyberspace The Rise of International Cybercrime By Erica K. Waters Erica Waters, originally the class of 2016, graduated from Albany Law School in December 2015 after accelerating her stu...
By Unknown 9:00 AM Law and literature Weisberg on Law and Literature Looking for a state-of-the-field overview of the Law and Literature movement? Richard Weisberg, Cardozo School of Law , has posted " Wh...
By Unknown Tuesday, September 6, 2016 Civil War Scholarship -- Books South Tarter on Race, Law, and Public Debt in Virginia New from the University of Virginia Press: A Saga of the New South: Race, Law, and Public Debt in Virginia (July 2016), by Brent Tarter (Li...
By Unknown 9:30 AM Fellowships Grants Honors and Awards U. Adelaide Postgraduate Dissertation Scholarships in Early Modern English Legal History Via H-Law, we have the following announcement : Two postgraduate scholarships are offered, each of three years duration, one leading to a ...
By Unknown 8:15 AM Fellowships Grants Honors and Awards Immigration and Citizenship George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award [We have the following announcement.] The Immigration and Ethnic History Society Announces competition for the 2016 George E. Pozzetta Disse...
By Unknown Monday, September 5, 2016 Asia Comparative Legal History Constitutional studies Latin America Scholarship -- Articles and essays Caldwell on China's "Five-Power Constitution" Ernest Caldwell, University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies , has posted Chinese Constitutionalism: Five-Power Constitutio...
By Unknown Sunday, September 4, 2016 2nd Amendment Constitutional studies English legal history Scholarship -- Articles and essays Kamp on the English Legacy for the Second Amendment Allen R. Kamp, John Marshall Law School , has posted The English Legacy of the Second Amendment — History and Myth : According to the majori...
By Unknown 4:01 AM Sunday Book Review Roundup In the New York Times is a review of Marc Lamont Hill's Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, From Ferguson to Flint ...
By Unknown Friday, September 2, 2016 14th Amendment Asia Conferences and Calls for Papers Constitutional studies Fellowships Grants Honors and Awards Immigration and Citizenship Slavery Weekend Roundup We were pleased to see that the activities at the upcoming meeting of the Association of American Law Schools in San Francisco include a f...
By Unknown 1:30 PM Africa Crime and Criminal Law International Law and Foreign Affairs Scholarship -- Articles and essays Liu on the ICC and al-Bashir, Zihang Liu has posted The Prosecutor v. Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir : The atrocities perpetrated by the Government of Sudan (GoS) and t...
By Unknown 9:00 AM Conferences and Calls for Papers CFP: Edinburgh Postgraduate Law Conference [We have the following announcement.] The Edinburgh Postgraduate Law Conference is excited to announce its fourth annual conference. This c...
By Unknown 5:30 AM Indian Law Latin America Scholarship -- Books Global Perspectives on Legal History 7 [We have the following announcement.] Víctor Tau Anzoátegui, El Jurista en el Nuevo Mundo Pensamiento. Doctrina. Mentalidad . Global Persp...
By Unknown Thursday, September 1, 2016 Crime and Criminal Law Criminal Procedure English legal history History of Science Policing New Release: Burney and Pemberton on CSI Out this month from Johns Hopkins University Press is M urder and the Making of English CSI by Ian Burney and Neil Pemberton , both o...
By Unknown 5:30 AM Sigh, Argh, Whoa: The Long, Slow, and Lucky Road to Writing my Book I’m probably not the only historian on the block who has a habit of thinking hard about important moments in my own life. Give me a long co...
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...