When I started working on my second book,
Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia, I created a course to help my research. Specifically, I designed an
undergraduate Legal Studies/History course
The draft program for the annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History to be held November 12-14, 2026, at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta, Canada, is here. In her email circulating the link, ASLH
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
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