Blue on 33 Quaint and/or Appalling Trials from the New Haven Colony

Jon C. Blue has published The Case of the Piglet's Paternity: Trials from the New Haven Colony, 1639–1663 , with Weslyean University Pr...

Mayeri on Marital Supremacy and the Constitution of the Nonmarital Family

Serena Mayeri, University of Pennsylvania Law School , has posted Marital Supremacy and the Constitution of the Nonmarital Family , which ap...

Privacy and Freedom of Speech

At the same time American courts were recognizing a right to one's image -- a "right to privacy" -- that made embarrassing or ...

A Published Roundtable on Griswold v. Connecticut

We learn, via Barbara Sicherman, Trinity College , that “a roundtable on Griswold v. Connecticut , originally presented at the American Ass...

SHFG to Host Roundtable on 1965 Immigration Act

[We're moving this up, as the lecture is this Thursday.]   [Via H-Law , we have the following announcement.] The Society for History in ...

Fernández-Villaverde on Magna Carta, the Rule of Law, and the Limits on Government

Jesus Fernández-Villaverde , Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania , has posted Magna Carta, the Rule of Law, and the Limits o...

Fraley on the History of Waste Law

Jill Fraley, Washington and Lee University School of Law , has posted Waste Law: The history of waste law, posited as a radical transformati...