We have the following call for applications: The Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Law, Politics, and Public Discourse, with an expected start date of July 1, 2027.The
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Gordon on Church and State in Early New York
Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania, has posted The Holy Cause: Church and State in Revolutionary and Early National New York:This article explores a key outgrowth of the American revolution in the law of church and state. The
Robert M. Ireland (1937-2026)
Robert Michael Ireland has died. For forty-one years after he obtain his Ph.D. in history at the University of Nebraska–he had earlier received a JD from Stanford–Professor Ireland taught in the Department of History at the University of Kentucky,
McGovern on Psychologists and Disparate Impact in the 70s
Michael F. McGovern, Knight Law and Media Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School, has published Regulating bias: validity liberalism and the politics of civil rights in 1970s America, in the British Journal of the History of
Tulane Law Job Announcement
[We have the following announcement. Note the openness to candidates in all topics, despite the specific emphasis on corporate law and torts. Tulane would be a terrific place for a legal historian of the civil law world and/or a comparative
Wiebolt on the Lawyer behind School Choice
Dennis J. Wieboldt, III, soon to be a VAP at Notre Dame Law, has posted William Bentley Ball and the “Century of Struggle” for School Choice:The Supreme Court’s 1971 decision in Lemon v. Kurtzman profoundly shaped the development
Smith on Catholic Constitutional Republicanism
Thomas A. Smith, emeritus at University of San Diego School of Law, has posted Catholic Constitutional Republicanism: Suárez, the School of Salamanca, and the American Law of Public Power: American constitutional theory traces its lineage to Hobbes,
Schwartz on Compact Theory and the US Constitution
David S. Schwartz, University of Wisconsin Law School, has posted The Birth of Compact Theory, which is forthcoming in the Journal of American Constitutional History:”Compact theory” is the idea that the U.S. Constitution is a compact of
"Who Owns Civil Rights History?" by Chang and Lovelace; response by Gross
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
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