Samito on "Constitution and Law" during the Civil War

Christian G. Samito , a lecturer in law at the Boston University School of Law , has posted Constitution and Law , an entry in A Companion t...

Iron Age Warrior Lived with Arrowhead in Spine

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Saavedra on the Human Rights Network and the Chilean Coup

Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Universidad Austral de Chile , has posted The Unintended Legacy of September 11, 1973: Transnational Activism and t...

Nice Try, Abe!

President Lyndon Johnson, December 11, 1963 ( LC ) The other day I had some time on my hands at the National Archives and, as is my wont, st...

CFP: Law as Culture at Medieval Studies 2016

[We have the following announcement from Sasha Volokh, Emory Law .] Every year, I run a legal history panel ("Law as Culture") at ...

Farber on the Declaration, the Consitution and the Interpreter's Dilemma

Daniel A. Farber, University of California, Berkeley School of Law , has posted The Declaration, the Constitution, and the Interpreter's...

Koziol Reviews the Hyams Festschrift

Law's  Dominion in the Middle Ages: Essays for Paul Hyams , a special issue of Reading Medieval Studies, is reviewed by Geoffrey Koziol ...

Sunday Book Roundup

With recent events in mind, The New York Times  has put together an annotated reading list for " Reading About the Confederacy ." ...

EMPIRE Building: Ford Aeronutronic's 1962 Plan for Piloted Mars/Venus Flybys

Wernher von Braun in his NASA Marshall Space Flight Center office. Image credit: NASA At the 7th International Astronautical Congress, held ...

Weekend Roundup

Twitterstorians have been hard at work on the #charlestonsyllabus , "a list of readings that educators can use to broach conversations ...

The Purcell Backlist, Round 2

In a second round of posts to SSRN, Edward A. Purcell, Jr., New York Law School, has made available some of his more recent publications. R...

Danner on Langdell and the Labratory Metaphor

Richard A. Danner, Duke University School of Law , has posted Law Libraries and Laboratories: The Legacies of Langdell and His Metaphor , wh...

CFP: Law Collecting and Law Collectors

We have the following Call for Papers: CALL FOR PAPERS LAW COLLECTING AND LAW COLLECTORS  Hosted by the Scottish Council of Law Reporting wi...

New Release: Richards, "Who Freed the Slaves? The Fight Over the Thirteenth Amendment"

New from the University of Chicago Press: Who Freed the Slaves? The Fight Over the Thirteenth Amendment (April 2015), by Leonard L. Richard...

Podvia on Douglass at Carlisle

Mark Wayne Podvia, West Virginia University College of Law , has posted Frederick Douglass in Carlisle , which appeared in Unbound: An Annua...

Clemente's on the Execution of "Idiots" at Common Law

Michael A. Clemente has posted his student note, A Reassessment of Common Law Protections for “Idiots.” which appears in the Yale Law Jour...

New Release: Conforti, "Lizzie Borden on Trial"

New from the University Press of Kansas: Lizzie Borden on Trial: Murder, Ethnicity, and Gender (June 2015), by Joseph A. Conforti (Universi...

Legal History at SHAFR 2015

We hear that the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations starts tomorrow in Arlington, Virginia,, with s...

Danner on Antebellum Reviews of American Law Reports

More than Appealing ?  Richard A. Danner, Duke University School of Law , has posted More than Decisions: Reviews of American Law Reports in...

Stern on "Fanny Hill" and Obscenity Law

Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law , has posted Fanny Hill and the 'Laws of Decency': Investigating Obscenity in the ...

Fishkin and Forbath on the Constitution of Opportunity

Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath, University of Texas at Austin School of Law , have posted Wealth, Commonwealth, & the Constitutio...

New Release: Mulcahy and Sugarman, "Legal Life-Writing: Marginalised Subjects and Sources"

New from Wiley-Blackwell: Legal Life-Writing: Marginalised Subjects and Sources (April 2015), by Linda Mulcahy (London School of Economics...

The Purcell Backlist

Edward A. Purcell, Jr. ( credit ) Not too long ago, Edward A. Purcell, Jr., New York Law School , posted a number of items from his backlis...