In 2025, Markus D. Dubber published the essay “New Legal Science in the Dual Penal State: Critical Analysis of Law and the Legitimacy of State Power” in the Bergen Journal of Criminal Law & Criminal Justice. From
Out today from the W. Hodding Carter III Books imprint of the University of North Carolina Press: The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History, by Rachel A. Shelden (Penn State University). A description from the Press:Today’s Supreme Court justices bristle at
Kellen Heniford and Jennifer Tucker, Wesleyan University, have posted Artificial Silence: Historians on the Selective Construction of ‘History and Tradition’ in Second Amendment Jurisprudence, which is forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review:Since the Supreme Court issued its
New from the University of Chicago Press: Unsettling Sovereignty: International Law, Nuclear Weapons, and US Extraterritorial Power in Postwar Oceania (2026), by M.X. Mitchell (New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark). A description from the Press:In the years following
The Federalist Society will livestream a webinar on October 28, 2026, at 1:00 p.m. EDT, entitled The Founders’ Indictment: Our Criminal Justice System Through the Lens of the Declaration: As Americans mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of
[We have the following announcement. DRE]
Harvard Law School invites applications for the Raoul Berger-Mark De Wolfe Howe Legal History Fellowship for the academic year 2027-2028. Eligible applicants include those who have made substantial progress on their doctoral dissertations
[We have the following announcement. DRE]The next Helsinki Legal History Series seminar [will be held] on October 27th! We are delighted to welcome Dr. Minna-Kerttu Kekki (University of Helsinki) to give a lecture titled: “Law and Morality in Soviet Estonian
New from Cambridge University Press and the ASLH’s book series, Studies in Legal History: Legal Theory in the Colonies: Hindu and Jewish Scholars under British Rule by Assaf Likhovski, Tel-Aviv University. It is available open access on Cambridge Core
The Annual Boston University Law Review Conference will take place this week on the topic “Presidentialism and the Escalation of Executive Power.” It commences with a “pre-note” keynote at lunchtime on Wednesday, October 21: Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law), “History and Tribalism
Princeton University Press has published Who Is American? Belonging and the Question of Jewish Citizenship (2026), by Lila Corwin Berman (New York University). A description from the Press: The history of Jews in the United States is often told as if
