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...

George on the Sex Research and the Decriminalization of Sodomy

Marie-Amelie George , Associate in Law, Columbia University Law School , and ABD Yale University, has posted The Harmless Psychopath: Legal ...

Weekend Roundup

It was a pleasure to see Catherine Fisk, University California Irvine School of Law , workshop some draft chapters from her forthcoming book...

The 1991 Plan to Turn Space Shuttle Columbia Into a Low-Cost Space Station

This NASA artwork from 1972 portrays the sheer volume of the Skylab Orbital Workshop, the first U.S. space station. The first U.S. space sta...

CFP: Comparative Legal Profession Histories

[We have the following call for papers and/or panels.]  The Seventh International Legal Ethics Conference (ILEC VII) will take place at For...

Christopher Waldrep: Scholarship, Teaching, and Professional Citizenship

Christopher Waldrep ( SFSU ) Earlier this week, Charles Zelden, the lead editor of H-Law, noted the following announcement on the website ...

Western New York Women Pioneers in the Law

[Here’s another event sponsored by the Historical Society of the New York Courts.] Western New York Women Pioneers in the Law: A Celebration...

Roberts, CJ, to Lecture on Hughes, CJ

Charles Evans Hughes et al. ( LC ) The Historical Society of the New York Courts announces Nominated from New York: Charles Evans Hughes: Ch...

Libel law and "image consciousness"

In my book Laws of Image: Privacy and Publicity in America , and in my posts on the Legal History Blog this month, I've described how an...

Thomas and Boisseau on the ERA as the "Next Logical Step"

Tracy A. Thomas , University of Akron School of Law, and Tracey Jean Boisseau , University of Akron, have posted After Suffrage Comes Equal ...

Samito on Military Service, Citizenship and the Irish during the Civil War

Christian G. Samito has posted Thomas F. Meagher, Patrick R. Guiney, and the Meaning of the Civil War for Irish America: The Questions of N...

Jus Gentium: A Journal of International Legal History

[ Via H-Law , we have the following announcement.] Talbot Publishing [an imprint of The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.] is pleased to announce the p...

Walter Muir Whitehill Prize in Early American History

The Colonial Society of Massachusetts announces the 2015 Walter Muir Whitehill Prize in Early American History.  This prize of $2500, establ...

Spear injuries show worker life in ancient Egypt

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Walker on Race and City-County Politics in St. Louis

Anders Walker, Saint Louis University School of Law , has posted House to House: Mergers, Annexations, & the Racial Implications of City...

CFP: Constitutional History: Comparative Perspectives

[ Via Balkinization , we have the following announcement.  We're guessing it's a companion conference to this .] Paper proposals are...

Privacy and Public Image

By 1940, the tort action for invasion of privacy had been recognized in fifteen jurisdictions. The Restatement of Torts acknowledged it in ...

600-year-old Henry V warship found in Hampshire river

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Goelzhauser on "Graveyard Dissents on the Burger Court"

In plenty of time for Halloween, Greg Goelzhauser, Utah State University, Political Science , has posted Graveyard Dissents on the Burger Co...

Tomlins on Adelaide's Blackstone

Christopher Tomlins, University of California, Berkeley, Jurisprudence and Social PolicyProgram , has posted Adelaide's Blackstone , whi...

Making Rocket Propellants from Martian Air (1978)

Water frost on Utopia Planitia as imaged by the Viking 2 lander. The horizon appears tilted because Viking 2 alighted with one of its three ...