Topic
Constitutional History
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Legal History Blog
Greenlee and Mocsary on Game Laws, Black Codes, and Bruen
By Dan Ernst
Joseph G.S. Greenlee and George A. Mocsary have published the essay From Royal Decrees to Black Codes: Wolford v. Lopez and the Limits of Post-Bruen Evasion in the Yale Law…
Law and Other Things
LAOT Podcast Series: Assembling India’s Constitution with Prof. Rohit De and Prof. Ornit Shani
By LAOT
LAOT Podcast Series: Assembling India’s Constitution: A Conversation with Professors Rohit De and Ornit Shani Jeetendra Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Law and Other Things podcast series. I’m Jeetendra,…
Legal History Blog
Curran on the Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of the Rights of Man
By Dan Ernst
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…
Law & Humanities Blog
Curran on Disentangling the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
By christinecorcoslawlit-blogspot-com
Vivian Grosswald Curran, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, has published Disentangling the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. It is…
Legal History Blog
Robert M. Ireland (1937-2026)
By Dan Ernst
Robert Michael Ireland has died. For forty-one years after he obtain his Ph.D. in history at the University of Nebraska--he had earlier received a JD from Stanford--Professor Ireland taught in…
Legal History Blog
Petipeti on Continuity in Congolese Constitutional History
By Dan Ernst
Mujinga Pathou Petipeti, University of Kinshasa Faculty of Law, has published The Formation of the State in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Institutional and Constitutional History of a Quest…
Legal History Blog
Grimm on German Constitutional History since 1949
By Dan Ernst
Dieter Grimm has published Constitutional Effectiveness: The Case of Germany's Basic Law with Hart/Bloomsbury:This book presents a unique account of the social and political impacts of the German Basic Law…
Legal History Blog
The Decline of Congress: An ICH Seminar
By Dan Ernst
US Capitol (NYPL)The New York Historical’s Bonnie and Richard Reiss Graduate Institute for Constitutional History has announced its spring seminar, “The Decline of Congress in American Politics and Law.” The…
Legal History Blog
De and Shani's "Assembling India's Constitution"
By Dan Ernst
Rohit De, Yale University, and Ornit Shani, University of Haifa, have published Assembling India's Constitution: A New Democratic History (Cambridge University Press): In this paradigm-shifting history, two leading historians of India…
Legal Theory Blog
Monopoli on Women’s Rights and Popular Constitutionalism
Paula A. Monopoli (University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law) has posted A "New" New Departure (102 Washington University Law Review 1961 (2025)) on SSRN. Here is the…