Blue on 33 Quaint and/or Appalling Trials from the New Haven Colony

Jon C. Blue has published The Case of the Piglet's Paternity: Trials from the New Haven Colony, 1639–1663 , with Weslyean University Pr...

Tomlins on Adelaide's Blackstone

Christopher Tomlins, University of California, Berkeley, Jurisprudence and Social PolicyProgram , has posted Adelaide's Blackstone , whi...

Sunday Book Roundup

In Dissent,  Amy Dru Stanley reviews Alex Gourevitch's From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in th...

Entick v. Carrington 250 Years On

Hart Publishing announces Entick v Carrington: 250 Years of the Rule of Law , edited by Adam Tomkins , John Millar Professor of Public Law a...

Mirow's "Latin American Constitutions"

M. C. Mirow, Florida International University College of Law , has published Latin American Constitutions: The Constitution of Cádiz and its...

Sunday Book Roundup

From The Dallas Morning News , there's a review of Will Haywood's Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That...

Welcome, Samantha Barbas!

Samantha Barbas ( credit ) We are delighted to have with us as a guest blogger this month Samantha Barbas , Associate Professor of Law at S...

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 ...

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...

Smith, "Sir Edward Coke and the Reformation of the Laws"

Via David Schorr's recent call for more legal historical work on swamp drainage (he makes the case!), we realized that we never profile...

Konczal on American Bureaucracy's Long and Useful History

The writer Mike Konczal , a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, has a nice review essay in the on-line Boston Review entitled Hail to the Pe...

Sunday Book Roundup

The New Rambler  has a review of The Constitution: An Introduction  by Michael Stokes Paulsen and Luke Paulsen (Basic). "Written with ...

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...

Troesken on "How the Constitution Left Americans Rich, Free, and Prone to Infection"

New from the University of Chicago Press: The Pox of Liberty: How the Constitution Left Americans Rich, Free, and Prone to Infection (June ...

Maris-Wolf on Free Blacks and Re-enslavement Law in Antebellum Virginia

The University of North Carolina Press has released Family Bonds: Free Blacks and Re-enslavement Law in Antebellum Virginia (April 2015), ...

Sunday Book Roundup

Ian Klaus's Forging Capitalism: Rogues, Swindlers, Frauds and the Rise of Modern Finance  (Yale University Press) is reviewed on H-Net....

Samito's "Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment"

Christian G. Samito , has published Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment in the Concise Lincoln Library Series of the Southern Illinois U...

Sunday Book Roundup

The Federal Lawyer  has a new issue, with several book reviews of note. Benjamin H. Barton's Glass Half Full: The Decline and Rebirth of...

Wadhia on the History of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases

New from New York University Press: Beyond Deportation: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases (June 2015), by Shoba Siv...

Sparrow, Novak, and Sawyer, eds., "Boundaries of the State in US History"

Here's a book that I have been eagerly looking forward to reading, now available from the University of Chicago Press: Boundaries of the...