The Summer 2026 issue of the Journal of American Constitutional History is now online:Recovering the Lost Pragmatist Promise of Legal Process by Emily F. RegierLegal Process Theory, a process-focused jurisprudential framework that predominated in the American legal academy
Tomas Gomez-Arostegui, Lewis & Clark Law School, has posted Patent-infringement Actions in the Eighteenth Century and the Right to a Jury Trial:This Article offers a wide-ranging reappraisal of patent-infringement litigation in the law courts of England in the 18th
Andrew T. Fede has published An Antebellum Protest against Segregation and the Criminal Law Response: A Preview of Jim Crow Law and the Struggle for Civil Rights, open access, in Law and History Review:
Historians have documented resistance to
During the 12+ years I spent
working on Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia, I came across some truly incredible primary sources.
In this 2nd guest post for August, I’d
Nga Bellis-Phan has posted A Legal Remedy Against Rent Arrears: Landlords’ Privilege on Furniture in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France, which appeared in Early Modern Debts, 1550-1770 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020):
The frequent default in rents payments was a real challenge
Samuel Moyn, Yale Law School, has posted A Letter to Hans Kelsen on the Use of Force:In the last days of 1966, John Fried wrote a letter to Hans Kelsen. American by emigration, Austro-Hungarian in their origins, and
Joshua E. Kastenberg, University of New Mexico School of Law, has published “Ford is an Anarchist” and “History is Bunk”: William Archibald Dunning and Jesse Siddall Reeves as Precedent for the First Professional Historians Testifying as Expert Witnesses in
Andrew Wender Cohen, Syracuse University, has published Gangster of New York: A Violent Life in Nineteenth Century America (Cambridge University Press, 2026).
This is the story of Louis Bieral, a nineteenth-century gangster, politician, sportsman, and Civil War hero. Kidnapped
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