The Relaunching of the AJLH

The American Journal of Legal History opened a new chapter of its long history with the announcement yesterday that, after decades of suppo...

Bilder's "Madison's Hand"

Mary Sarah Bilder , Professor of Law and Michael and Helen Lee Distinguished Scholar at Boston College Law School , has just published Madis...

Tomlins on the Soterial-Legal History of the Turner Rebellion

Christopher Tomlins, University of California, Berkeley , Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, has posted Debt, Death, and Redemption: ...

"Law As" III

Eleven essays from the third “Law As...” symposium, organized by Christopher Tomlins and held at UC Irvine Law in April 2014, are out in t...

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...

Legal History and Urban History

A striking thing I learned while writing Forging Rivals was that cities were leaders in passing fair employment practices legislation in th...

Jurisprudence and (Its) History

Just out in the Virginia Law Review is the symposium "Jurisprudence and (Its) History," which was held last September and sponsor...

Charles on History and "the Originalism Disclaimer"

Patrick J. Charles, United States Air Force , has posted The "Originalism is Not History" Disclaimer: A Historian's Rebuttal ,...