Morrison v. Olsen: The Oral Argument Reenacted

[We have the following announcement of a reenactment of the oral argument in Morrison v. Olson .  Early arrivers for the ASLH meeting take s...

Rethinking Protest Music

[We have the following announcement.] Rethinking Protest Music , October 24–25, 2015, Bowl 016, Robertson Hall, Princeton University, Prince...

Manion and Careceral Culture and Working Women in Early America

We’ve seen an announcement of Capitalism, Carceral Culture, and the Domestication of Working Women in the Early American City , by Jen Mani...

Magna Carta: The Octocentennial that Keeps on Giving

[We have the following announcement of an event to take place later today .] Donald T. Critchlow , the Director of Arizona State University ...

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 ...

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...

Weekend Roundup - UPDATED

On Wednesday, the New York Times published an op-ed by Sean Wilentz (Princeton) on the status of slavery in the U.S. Constitution. In his ...

Weekend Roundup

The Historical Presidency series of the Miller Center for Public Affairs continues Friday, September 18, from 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m., with Da...

Using the Past: Romanists, Totalitarianism, and Its Legacy

[We have the following announcement.] Programme of the “ Using the past: Romanists, totalitarianism and its legacy ” conference Villa Lante ...

Weekend Roundup

Paul Finkelman , emeritus, Albany Law School , will give the address The Constitution and the 14th Amendment: Defining Citizenship ,  Thursd...

TAU's Law and History Workshop, Fall 2015

[We have the following announcement.] Tel Aviv Law is pleased to announce the Fall 2015 schedule for the   Yigal Arnon & Co. Law and His...

The Supreme Court and Reconstruction

Leon Silverman Lectures of the Supreme Court Historical Society continue this autumn with two more on the Supreme Court and Reconstruction. ...

Anglicization of Law and through Law

[We have the following announcement.] 2015-16 Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History: Anglicization of Law and through Law: Ear...

CFP: Constitutional History: Comparative Perspectives

[We have the follow call for papers.] Paper proposals are invited for the Second Annual Illinois-Bologna conference on Constitutional Histor...

Nixon's Court: The Griswold Prize Lecture

[We're moving this up. as Professor McMahon's lecture may now be viewed on C-SPAN .] Thanks to the usual competence and efficiency o...

Magna Carta and the Constitution at the National Archives

[We have the following announcement of a free panel discussion, Magna Carta and the Constitution, to be held Monday, June 15, at 7:00 p.m., ...

Punctuating Happiness

[From the National Archives's press release .] The National Archives, in partnership with the Institute for Advanced Study, will host a ...

Religion and the Constitution: An ICH Summer Seminar

[We are moving this post up as the deadline of May 15 is approaching.] The Institute for Constitutional History is pleased to announce a re...

Images and Imagination in Theorizing about Law Workshop

We have word of the conference Images and Imagination in Theorizing about Law Workshop , to be held May 20,  2015, from 10:30am - 7:00pm, in...

The English Legal Imaginary at St. Andrews

We've previously posted the schedule for the first stage of the two-part, transatlantic conference, "The English Legal Imaginary....