Welcome, Samantha Barbas!

Samantha Barbas ( credit ) We are delighted to have with us as a guest blogger this month Samantha Barbas , Associate Professor of Law at S...

Jewish Legal Theorists in the 19th and 20th Centuries

[Via H-Law we have the following announcement.] The Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at Leipzig University is planni...

Stephens on Maori Constitutionalism

Māmari Stephens, Victoria University of Wellington , has posted “To Work Out Their Own Salvation”: Māori Constitutionalism and the Quest for...

Ms. Peppercorn Considers: Various Issues for the First Time Presenter

October is nearly upon us and we are all gearing up for ASLH ! One of the best things about this meeting, and about the Society more general...

Call for Applications: ABF Doctoral/Post-Doctoral Fellowships

The American Bar Foundation has issued the following call for applications : ABF Doctoral/Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program in Law and Social...

New Exhibits of Georgetown Law Library Rare Books

[Via H-Law we have the following announcement.] Georgetown Law Library Special Collections is pleased to announce two new exhibits featur...

Magna Carta at Carolina Law

Judging from this post on the Faculty Lounge, Al Brophy and the folks at Carolina Law have assembled a first-rate symposium, Celebrating 8...

Cushman on the Docket Books of the Late Hughes Court

We’ve previously noted the analysis by Barry Cushman, Notre Dame Law School , of the docket books of the US Supreme Court during the early ...

Gupta-Kagan on a Landmark Family Law Case

Josh Gupta-Kagan, University of South Carolina School of Law , has posted Stanley v. Illinois ' Untold Story , William & Mary Bill o...

Bilder on Madison on the Three-Fifths Clause

We've previously noted the publication of Madison's Hand by Mary Bilder , Boston College Law School .  Now Professor Bilder has ki...

Mendenhall on Holmes, Emerson and Pragmatism

Allen Mendenhall, Auburn University , has posted Pragmatism on the Shoulders of Emerson: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s Jurisprudence as a ...

Indigenous Women In Bolivia Use Ancient Knitting Skills To Weave Devices For Congenital Heart Disease

Indigenous Women In Bolivia Use Ancient Knitting Skills To Weave Devices For Congenital Heart Disease To help the growing number of children...

Sunday Book Roundup

This week, H-Net posted a review of Chanelle N. Rose's The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami: Civil Rights and America's Tourist ...

Astronaut Sally Ride's Mission to Mars (1987)

Astronaut Dr. Sally Ride on board the Space Shuttle Orbiter Challenger during STS-7 (June 1983), her first flight into space. Image credit: ...

A Museum of "the Weapon of the Weak"

The American Museum of Tort Law opens tomorrow in Winstead, CT, Ralph Nader 's home town, the New York Times reports .  A ceremony to ...

Weekend Roundup

All those those Constitution Day lectures are hard to keep up with.  (That reminds me: Thanks for the jobs program , Senator Byrd.)  One we ...

Green on Clarity and Reasonable Doubt in Judicial Review in the Early Republc

Christopher R. Green, University of Mississippi School of Law and, this year, a fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton University...

Prakash to Deliver Murphy Lecture at Princeton

Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash, University of Virginia School of Law , delivers the Walter F. Murphy Lecture in American Constitutionalism, en...

The Collins Task Force Says Aim for Mars (1987)

The Apollo 11 crew of Neil Armstrong (left), Michael Collins, and Edwin Aldrin. Image credit: NASA The January 1986 Challenger Space Shuttl...

Legal Life Writing: Workshop and Book Launch

[We have the following announcement.] The Legal Biography Project at the LSE Legal Life Writing: Marginalised Subjects and Sources - A Works...

Lieblich on "Internal Jus Ad Bellum"

Eliav Lieblich, Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Center , has posted Internal Jus Ad Bellum , which is forthcoming in the Hastings ...

Funk Reviews Compton's "Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution"

Kellen R. Funk , a Yale JD and a doctoral candidate in history at Princeton University , has posted Shall These Bones Live? Property, Plural...