Bilder on Madison on the Three-Fifths Clause

We've previously noted the publication of Madison's Hand by Mary Bilder , Boston College Law School .  Now Professor Bilder has ki...

Sunday Book Roundup

This week, H-Net posted a review of Chanelle N. Rose's The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami: Civil Rights and America's Tourist ...

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 ...

Green on Clarity and Reasonable Doubt in Judicial Review in the Early Republc

Christopher R. Green, University of Mississippi School of Law and, this year, a fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton University...

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...

Bilder's "Madison's Hand"

Mary Sarah Bilder , Professor of Law and Michael and Helen Lee Distinguished Scholar at Boston College Law School , has just published Madis...

Ruben and Cornell, "Firearm Regionalism and Public Carry: Placing Southern Antebellum Case Law in Context"

Eric M. Ruben (New York University Brennan Center for Justice) and Saul A. Cornell (Fordham University) have posted " Firearm Regiona...

Weekend Roundup

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

Vile on William Pierce's Character Sketches of the Delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention

The University of Georgia Press has recently published a book that may interest constitutional historians and those who study the founding e...

Eaton on Spectral Evidence at Salem, 1692

Matteson's "Trial of George Jacobs" ( LC ) Rebecca Eaton has posted her LL.B honors paper at the Victoria University of Welli...

Reinstein on the Necessary and Proper Clause

Robert Reinstein, Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law , has posted The Great Power of the Necessary and Proper Clause : The sco...

Weekend Roundup

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

Mask and MacMahon on Revolutionary-War Prize Cases

Deirdre Mask , London School of Economics , Political Science, and Paul MacMahon London School of Economics , Law Department, have posted T...

Weekend Roundup

Just published is a much-expanded second edition of The Complete Bill of Rights: The Drafts, Debates, Sources, & Origins (Oxford Univer...

Rakove on the Constitution on YouTube

Stanford has posted on its YouTube channel six lectures by Jack Rakove on “the history and future of the U.S. Constitution” from his cours...

Gordon on Race, Religion and Corporate Law in Early National America

Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania Law School , has posted The African Supplement: Religion, Race, and Corporate Law in Earl...

Tyler on Habeas and the American Revolution

Amanda L. Tyler, University of California, Berkeley School of Law , has posted Habeas Corpus and the American Revolution , which is forthcom...

Sunday Book Roundup

Greetings from The Terrace at the University of Wisconsin, Madison--quite possibly the happiest place to finish up a Sunday Book Roundup aft...

Meyerson on the Original Meaning of God

Michael I. Meyerson, University of Baltimore School of Law, has posted The Original Meaning of 'God': Using the Language of the Fra...

Prakash's "Imperial from the Beginning"

Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash, University of Virginia Law School of Law , has published Imperial from the Beginning: The Constitution of the ...