It is publication day for National Parks and the Supreme Court: Groundbreaking Legal Battles (University of Nevada Press), by Carla Chung Mattix, who for over twenty-five years was an attorney for the National Park Service in the U.S. Department
Quinn Yeargain, Michigan State University College of Law, has published “Anti-McCarthyism and the Right to ‘Fair and Just Treatment’ in State Constitutions” in the Kansas Law Review 74 (April 2026): 611-653. From the introduction:In two states . . .
Lance Walker, oil & gas title attorney in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has posted Forever and Aye: A Lawyer’s Deed in Verse, further subtitled, “A Note on J. Henry Shaw’s Warranty Deed–and the Lawyer Who Once Stood Beside Lincoln”:In
Thomas P. Gallanis, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, has published American Revolutions in the Law of Trusts, which appears in the ACTEC Law Journal:American trust law is revolutionary. It departs in fundamental ways from the
Mara Revkin, Duke University School of Law, and Gage Gramlick, a JD candidate at Duke, have posted The Civil War Origins of Fiscal Policing: Evidence from the District of Columbia:The rise of “fiscal policing” in the United
Jerry Edwards, West Virginia University College of Law, has posted The Birth of the Minority Rights First Amendment:An incongruence exists in the literature on the nineteenth-century history of expressive freedom. Legal-tradition scholars have determined that the First Amendment
I am delighted to be back as a
Legal History (guest) Blogger. My second scholarly monograph, Fear of theFalse: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia, came
out in April 2026 with Cornell University Press. This
Volume 106, no. 4 of the Boston University Law Review features the essays from the law review’s Fall 2025 Symposium on The University and Democracy. The following may be of particular interest to readers of this blog: A Brief on Behalf
We note the posthumous publication of the late William E. Nelson‘s Concise History of American Law (Oxford University Press):
A Concise History of American Law traces the development of the US legal order from the colonial era to the
Jack M. Balkin, Yale Law School, has posted From Off the Wall to On the Wall: How Social Power Shapes Legal Reason:Throughout the history of the Constitution legal arguments have moved from being “off the wall”– crazy incompetent,
