Weekend Roundup

It is invitation-only, but LHB readers might be interested anyway: The conference, The Laws of War as an International Regime: History, Theo...

Sunday Book Roundup

Jim Grimsley's How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood  (Algonquin) is reviewed in the Washington Pos...

Weekend Roundup

Joseph Vining (University of Michigan) has posted a short essay on the "basic elements" in John Noonan 's thought. (Hat tip: ...

Berger on Birthright Citizenship

Bethany Berger, University of Connecticut School of Law , has posted Birthright Citizenship on Trial: Elk v. Wilkins and United States v. Wo...

Berger Reviews Ablavsky, "Beyond the Indian Commerce Clause"

Over at JOTWELL , Bethany Berger (University of Connecticut School of Law) has posted an appreciative review of " Beyond the Indian Co...

CFP: Critical Legal Histories of the North American West

From Southern Methodist University, we have the following call for papers: Laying Down the Law: Critical Legal Histories of the North Americ...

Sunday Book Roundup

After a week off, we're back with plenty of book reviews for the long weekend. From The New Rambler , there is a review of The Empire T...

New Release: Empire by Treaty

Out recently from the Oxford University Press is Empire by Treaty: Negotiating European Expansion, 1600-1900 , edited by Saliha Belmessous ,...

Sunday Book Roundup

H-Net has a review of Brendan C. Lindsay's Murder State: California's Native American Genocide 1846-1873  (University of Nebraska P...

New Release: Rosen's "Border Law"

New from Harvard University Press is Border Law: The First Seminole War and American Nationhood , by Deborah A. Rosen, Lafayette College : T...