Caleb Nelson, University of Virginia School of Law, has posted Against the Dictatorial Presidency:George Washington (NYPL)Article II of the Constitution says that “[t]he executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States
Lance Walker, an oil-and-gas attorney in Oklahoma City, has posted “Not a Particle of Choctaw Blood”: Samuel Caldwell’s Four Citizenship Trials, 1896-1904:This Article recovers a case that has not been examined in the scholarly literature since the tribunal
A question hovered over my
head as I worked on Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of
Crime in Colonial South Asia: how should I use detective fiction as a
source? There was a rich and
Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has posted Henry Fielding on Crime and Punishment:Henry Fielding (NYPL)In his own right as an author on crime, punishment, and questions of social reform and poor relief,
Emily S. Bremer, Notre Dame Law School, has posted Making Our Ministry of Justice, which is to appear in Notre Dame Law Review Reflection:William Howard Taft (LC)This Essay evaluates the Judiciary Act of 1925
[Via H-Law, we have the following CFP. DRE]Rethinking Pakistan through Legal History. Pakistan Legal History Workshop, December 18-19, 2026, IBA Karachi, PakistanLaw has played a remarkably central role in Pakistan’s political, institutional and social life. From military rulers
Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl, William & Mary Law School, has posted The Forgotten History of Legislative Interpretive Directives, which is forthcoming in the Texas Law Review:This Article addresses an overlooked aspect of the history of legal interpretation: the
Vivian Grosswald Curran, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, has posted Disentangling the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, which is forthcoming in the Duke Journal of Comparative and International
John M. Breen, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, and Lee J. Strang, Ohio State University, have posted Jesuit Identity in American Legal Education: An Historical Examen:Georgetown Law Building, 1891-1971 (credit)Georgetown University opened its law
Sandeep Dhaliwal, St. John’s University School of Law, has posted The Legal Realism of W.E.B. Du Bois: W.E.B. Du Bois, 1907 (wiki)The great writer, activist, and scholar W.E.B. Du Bois saw his career unfold alongside the development
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