CFP: Comparative Legal Profession Histories

[We have the following call for papers and/or panels.]  The Seventh International Legal Ethics Conference (ILEC VII) will take place at For...

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...

Kessler on Freedman's Bureau Courts and Adversarialism

We've just noticed that the ASLH's website for the 2015 annual meeting in Washington includes a link to a paper circulated in advanc...

Hupper on Foreign Lawyers and the US JSD

Gail J. Huppe r, a visiting scholar at the Harvard Law School , has posted Educational Ambivalence: The Rise of a Foreign-Student Doctorat...

Representing the Unborn

James Bopp, June 2011 (Credit: Gage Skidmore ) If you are among the many who do not love the Supreme Court’s campaign-finance decision in Ci...

Wyzanski Speaks!

Wyzanski, 1937 ( LC ) Back in 2011 , I mentioned that although the recording of Paul Freund 's contribution to the Stanley Reed Oral His...

Wald on the Jewish Law Firm

Eli Wald, University of Denver Sturm College of Law , has posted The Jewish Law Firm: Past and Present , the typescript, pre-publication ver...

Hasan's "Loren MIller"

Amina Hassan has published Loren Miller: Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist with the Oklahoma University Press.  Hassan, the holder of t...

Danner on Antebellum Reviews of American Law Reports

More than Appealing ?  Richard A. Danner, Duke University School of Law , has posted More than Decisions: Reviews of American Law Reports in...

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...

Three by Ariens on the History of Legal Ethics

Michael S. Ariens, St. Mary's University School of Law , has posted three papers on the history of legal ethics.  The first is Lost and ...

Weekend Roundup

Thanks to Mark Spiegel's article and Felice Batlan's book , it has been a big week for the history of legal aid.  Keep it going by ...

Herbert Resner and the Decline of Radical Lawyering

Perhaps a close look at any legal community would reveal its share of interesting characters, but if you're studying lawyers in San Fran...

Spiegel on Legal Aid, 1900-1930

Mark Spiegel, Boston College Law School (and a former Reggie ), has posted Legal Aid 1900 to 1930: What Happened to Law Reform? which is f...

Louis Rothschild Mehlinger (1882-1987)

[Longtime LHB readers will recall that the exam in my annual survey of American legal history includes a biographical essay.  Here is this ...

New Release: Batlan's History of Legal Aid, 1863-1945

I've been really looking forward to this new release, from Cambridge University Press: Women and Justice for the Poor : A History of Leg...

Zelden on Thurgood Marshall on C-SPAN2

Next weekend, commencing sometime Saturday afternoon,  Charles L. Zelden, Nova Southeastern University , will discuss his book Thurgood Mars...

Billings on Lincoln as Zealous Advocate

Roger D. Billings Jr., Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law , has posted Abraham Lincoln and the Duty of Zealous Repr...

Lempert and Stern on Juries

As it happens, two interesting papers on the jury went up on SSRN about the same time.  The first is by Richard Lempert, University of Michi...