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...

Wright on the Public/Private Binary and Family Law History

Danaya C. Wright, University of Florida Levin College of Law, has posted Theorizing History: Separate Spheres, the Public/Private Binary an...

Weekend Roundup

Adam Goodman (University of Southern California) has compiled a list of all the events marking the 50th anniversary of the signing of the ...

Norma Basch: An Appreciation by Sarah Barringer Gordon

[We are postponing the Weekend Roundup until later today for this appreciation of Norma Basch , Professor Emerita Rutgers University-Newark ...

Norma Basch (1934-2015)

[Over at H-Law , R. B. Bernstein has reported the sad news of Norma Basch ’s death.  The New York Times obituary is here .  We will be post...

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...

New Website Showcases Law, Family, and Slavery in Early Washington, D.C.

Via Slate's The Vault , we have word of the online archival repository " O Say Can You See: Early Washington, D.C. Law & Family...

Compromise and Marital-Status Discrimination

At the heart of After Roe  is a story about when and why conflict about abortion and gender escalated. Before writing the book, I believed t...

Domínguez on Chilean Family Law

Carmen Domínguez, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile , has posted Los Principios Que Informan El Derecho De Familia Chileno: Su Formul...

Weekend Roundup

"Donald Trump’s lawyer was right: In some places, raping your wife is still treated like a minor offense" -- so says legal histori...

Moulton, "The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts"

New from Harvard University Press: The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts (April 2015), by Amber D. Moulton ...

Call for Papers: California Law Review Symposium on Obergefell v. Hodges

We have been closely covering historians' commentary on Obergefell v. Hodges , a decision that stands out for its multifaceted uses of h...

Cott on Obergefell

The latest issue of Perspectives , the newsmagazine of the American Historical Association, includes a reflection piece by Nancy Cott (Har...

A Festschrift for Richard H. Helmholz

I’m very pleased to note the publication of the festschrift Studies in Canon Law and Common Law in Honor of R. H. Helmholz , edited by Troy ...

Dayton on "The Oddest Man that I Ever Saw"

Cornelia H. Dayton, University of Connecticut Department of History, has published a fascinating article, “The Oddest Man that I Ever Saw”:...

Historians and the Obergefell Decision - updated

Both the majority opinion and the dissents in Obergefell v. Hodges , the recent Supreme Court same-sex marriage case, are notable for their ...

Symposium on Hartog's "Someday All This Will Be Yours"

Law & Social Inquiry 40:2 (Summer 2015), available online shortly, includes a symposium on Hendrik Hartog 's Someday All This Will ...

New Release: Burrill on "Gender, Justice, and Rights in Colonial Mali"

New from Ohio University Press: States of Marriage: Gender, Justice, and Rights in Colonial Mali , by Emily S. Burrill (University of North...

New Release: Field and Syrett, eds., "Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present"

New from New York University Press: Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present , edited b y Corinne T. Field (University of Virginia...

New Release: Cuno, "Modernizing Marriage"

New from Syracuse University Press: Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt , by Ke...