Fernández-Villaverde on Magna Carta, the Rule of Law, and the Limits on Government

Jesus Fernández-Villaverde , Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania , has posted Magna Carta, the Rule of Law, and the Limits o...

Jewish Legal Theorists in the 19th and 20th Centuries

[Via H-Law we have the following announcement.] The Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at Leipzig University is planni...

Mendenhall on Holmes, Emerson and Pragmatism

Allen Mendenhall, Auburn University , has posted Pragmatism on the Shoulders of Emerson: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s Jurisprudence as a ...

Tomlins on the Turner Rebellion and the Lordship/Bondage Dialectic

Christopher Tomlins, University of California, Berkeley, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program , has posted The Work of Death: Massacre an...

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: ...

Brophy on Antislavery Women and the American Jurisprudence

Alfred L. Brophy, University of North Carolina School of Law , has posted Antislavery Women and the Origins of American Jurisprudence , whic...

Purcell on Bickel

Edward A. Purcell Jr., New York Law School , has posted a classic article from his backlist, Alexander Bickel and the Post-Realist Constitut...

"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...

Weekend Roundup

Can't We All Just Give Magna Carta a Rest? asks Chicago Law's Tom Ginsburg in a New York Times op-ed . Um, no, replies Wofford'...

Comparative Legal History - new content online

The journal Comparative Legal History has posted some new content online (with full text available to subscribers): Articles Finding, shari...

Weekend Roundup

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

Stack on Wyman's "Principles of Administrative Law"

Kevin M. Stack, Vanderbilt Law , has posted Reclaiming 'The Real Subject' of Administrative Law: A Critical Introduction to Bruce W...

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...

Lieblich on Kelsen's Assimilation through Law

Eliav Lieblich, Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Center , has posted a pre-submission version of Assimilation Through Law: Hans Kel...

Rabb on the Judical Stereotyping of Kadijustiz

Intisar A. Rabb, Harvard Law School , has posted Against Kadijustiz: On the Negative Citation of Foreign Law , which is forthcoming in the S...

Paradise on CRT and the African-American Christian Tradition

Brandon L. Paradise, Rutgers Law School-Newark, has published How Critical Race Theory Marginalizes the African-American Christian Traditio...

Tomlins on "Capitalism as Law"

Christopher Tomlins, University of California, Berkeley  Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program , has posted Organic Poise? Capitalism as L...

New Release: Helmholz's "Natural Law in Court"

Out next month from the Harvard University Press is Natural Law in Court: A History of Legal Theory in Practice by R. H. Helmholz , the Rut...

Weekend Roundup

Congratulations to Justin Simard (Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania), who has been selected as a Baldy Postdoctoral Fellow by the...

Johnson on "Medieval Law and Materiality"

Just out in the the American Historical Review 120 (April 2015) is Medieval Law and Materiality: Shipwrecks, Finders, and Property on the S...