SHFG to Host Roundtable on 1965 Immigration Act

[We're moving this up, as the lecture is this Thursday.]   [Via H-Law , we have the following announcement.] The Society for History in ...

Weekend Roundup

It was a pleasure to see Catherine Fisk, University California Irvine School of Law , workshop some draft chapters from her forthcoming book...

Western New York Women Pioneers in the Law

[Here’s another event sponsored by the Historical Society of the New York Courts.] Western New York Women Pioneers in the Law: A Celebration...

Roberts, CJ, to Lecture on Hughes, CJ

Charles Evans Hughes et al. ( LC ) The Historical Society of the New York Courts announces Nominated from New York: Charles Evans Hughes: Ch...

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...

Arbitration in Historical Perspective: A Symposium and Student Writing Competition

[We have the following announcement.] William Blackstone, via the CSDR A student writing competition is being organized in conjunction with ...

Barbas at BC Legal History Roundtable

[We have the following announcement from our friends at Boston College concerning our guest blogger, Samantha Barbas .] We are delighted th...

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...

Witt to Deliver Jefferson Memorial Lecture at UC Berkeley

With apologies for the late notice - today at 4 pm PST John Fabian Witt will deliver the annual Jefferson Memorial Lecture at the University...

This Fall in Minnesota's Legal History Workshop

[We have the following announcement.] Fall 2015 Legal History Workshop, University of Minnesota, Professor Susanna Blumenthal September 24 M...

Wilentz on Slavery and the U.S. Constitution: A Constitution Day Lecture

Sean Wilentz , the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History, at Princeton University , will deliver “Slavery and the U.S. Cons...

Symposium: From Runnymede to Philadelphia

[ Via H-Law, we have news of the symposium, From Runnymede to Philadelphia to Cyberspace: The Enduring Legacy of Magna Carta ] Brooklyn Law...

Triangle Legal History Seminar, 2015-16

Via Al Brophy over at the Faculty Lounge , we have the schedule for the Triangle Legal History Seminar for 2015-16.  Al writes that the sem...

Michigan's Legal History Workshop, Fall 2015

Here’s the Fall 2005 lineup for the Legal History Workshop jointly sponsored by the University of Michigan Law School and University of Mich...

Reform, Reaction, and Constitutionalism in 20th-Century America: An ICH Seminar

[We are moving this post up, because spaces remain and our friends at the ICH are still accepting applications.] The Institute for Constitut...

DC Working Class History Seminar

Here’s the line-up for the DC Working Class History Seminar for 2015-16: September  19 Jennifer Luff (Durham University-UK) “Banning reds: ...

Weekend Roundup

Guest blogger Sarah Barringer Gordon 's new research on church and state in early America has the enthusiastic endorsement of the Econom...

Georgetown International History Seminar, 2015-16

[We have the following announcement.] The Georgetown University Institute for Global History and the Mortara Center for International Studie...

Center for the Study of Law and Society Speaker Series: Fall 2015

The Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley, has posted the fall lineup for its speaker series . ...

YLS Legal History Forum, 2015-16

[Here’s the line-up for the Yale Law School Legal History Forum for 2015-16.  We’ll add a link once it becomes available. “As always,” we a...