Volume 106 of the Boston University Law Review includes the article “Who Owns Civil Rights History?” by Robert S. Chang (UC Irvine School of Law) and H. Tim Lovelace, Jr. (Duke Law School). The abstract:In this Article, Professors
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Goldstein on Constitutional Facts, Jurisdictional Facts, and the APA
Ari Goldstein, a 2025 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, has published The Lost World of Jurisdictional and Constitutional Facts in the Administrative Law Review:According to the standard historical account, courts have deferred to agencies on…
Corcos on Tocqueville in Canadian Judicial Opinions
Christine A. Corcos, Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center, has posted The Uses of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Writings in Canadian Judicial Opinions, which appears in Moréteau on Law, Language and Heritage, edited by Agustín Parise,…
Clifford et al. on OCR Error Rates
Jim Clifford, Jacob Polay, and Jessica Jack, University of Saskatchewan, and Mark Humphries and Lianne C. Leddy, Wilfrid Laurier University, have posted Reading the Archive by Machine: An OCR Benchmark for Historians, 1612–1921, in Working Papers in …
Commons on Migrants and the Common Law in Early Modern Engalnd
Kathleen Commons has published, open access, Discovering ‘Immigration Control’ in England, c. 1540 – c. 1640 in The Historical Journal:
Migration history is a growing field – yet the legal status of migrants in early modern England has not…
Smith and Chang on Stravinsky's "Star-Spangled Banner" and the Law
Michael L. Smith, University of Oklahoma College of Law, and Yoo Jung Chang, a cellist, have posted Stravinsky’s National Anthem:Igor Stravinsky (LC)In January 1944, famed composer Igor Stravinsky was scheduled to conduct the Boston…
Kastenberg on Historians in the Frick Libel Case
Joshua E. Kastenberg, University of New Mexico, has published, in the St. Louis University Law Journal, The Past May Be Uncomfortable: Frick v. Stevens, the Protection of Scholarly Inquiry, Knowledge, and a Free Society as a…
CFP: Notre Dame Legal History Colloquium
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Notre Dame Legal History Colloquium to Begin Third Year of Meetings, Now Accepting Presenter ApplicationsThe Notre Dame Legal History Colloquium will again convene a series of workshops during the 2026-2027 academic year for…
Hanna on Colvin's Bus Protest
Mark Hanna has published From Claudette Colvin’s expectation to bus desegregation in Browder v Gayle in the American Journal of Legal History:
In March 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to move from her seat on a Montgomery bus, setting…
Bridges on Originalism without History
Khiara M. Bridges, UC Berkeley School of Law, has published the review essay Originalism Without History in the Yale Law Journal:Originalism, the Supreme Court’s ascendant theory of constitutional interpretation, claims to dive deep into the historical archives to…