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
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The Legal History Blog is a publication associated with the American Society for Legal History that focuses on scholarly discussions and developments in legal history. It features announcements of academic conferences, awards, and dissertation prizes recognizing significant contributions to the field. The blog covers a wide range of topics including constitutional history, European and global legal history, American legal history, and intersections of law with social issues such as gender and sexuality. It also highlights calls for papers and conferences that explore emerging areas like queer theory in private law. The content is primarily academic and aimed at legal historians, scholars, and students interested in the historical dimensions of law.
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CFP: Notre Dame Legal History Colloquium
[We have the following announcement. DRE]
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…
Wolf on Property Law as History
Michael Allan Wolf, University of Florida Levin College of Law, has posted Property Law as History, which is forthcoming in The Urban Lawyer:Because property law and history are so inextricably intertwined, it has become even more important…
Wolff on Legal History and Comparative Law
Lutz-Christian Wolff, Chinese University of Hong Kong, has published an article entitled Legal History and Comparative Law: Just the Flip Side of the Same Coin? in the Independent Law Journal:The relationship between legal history and comparative law…
Coffey on Double Jeopardy
Ger Coffey, University of Limerick, has posted A History of the Common Law Double Jeopardy Principle: From Classical Antiquity to Modern Era:The double jeopardy principle is a guarantee of individual liberty that has ancient origins. The development of…
Smith on Erie
Thomas A. Smith, University of San Diego School of Law, has posted a reconsideration of Eire Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, entitled, Overruled from the Chair: A Study in UmbesetzungThis Article reads Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins (1938) not…
Wilson, "The Disability History of Brown v. Board of Education"
An article of interest from Britney Wilson (New York Law School): “The Disability History of Brown v. Board of Education,” Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice 32, no. 1 (2026).
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Shanks-Dumont on Godzilla and the Imaginal Legal History of Ecocide
Daimeon Shanks-Dumont, a Ph.D. Candidate in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, has published Godzilla Cinema and the Imaginal Legal History of Ecocide in the Yale Journal of Law …