Samito on Military Service, Citizenship and the Irish during the Civil War

Christian G. Samito has posted Thomas F. Meagher, Patrick R. Guiney, and the Meaning of the Civil War for Irish America: The Questions of N...

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...

An Oral History of an African American JAG (1943-46)

We recently noticed Major Dan Dalrymple’s An Extraordinary Life Span: A Summary and Analysis of an Oral History of the Honorable William A. ...

Lieblich on "Internal Jus Ad Bellum"

Eliav Lieblich, Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Center , has posted Internal Jus Ad Bellum , which is forthcoming in the Hastings ...

Using the Past: Romanists, Totalitarianism, and Its Legacy

[We have the following announcement.] Programme of the “ Using the past: Romanists, totalitarianism and its legacy ” conference Villa Lante ...

Tillman, "Ex Parte Merryman: Myth, History, and Scholarship"

Seth Barrett Tillman (National University of Ireland, Maynooth) has posted " Ex Parte Merryman: Myth, History, and Scholarship ."...

Sunday Book Roundup

The New Rambler  has a review of Natural Law in Court: A History of Legal Theory in Practice  by R.H. Helmholtz (Harvard University Press)....

RFP: A History of the US Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims

[We have the following Request for Proposals for a "book on the history of the creation and the first 25 years of the U.S. Court of App...

Sunday Book Roundup

After a weekend off, here's this Sunday's Book Roundup: The Los Angeles Review of Books reviews   Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the ...

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...

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...

de la Rasilla del Mora on British International Lawyers and the Spanish Civil War

Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral, Brunel Law School , has posted " In the General Interest of Peace": British International Lawyers...

Issacharoff on the Purse, the Sword and the Constitution

Lucas Issacharoff,   Independent, and Samuel Issacharoff, New York University School of Law , have posted Constitutional Disequilibrium in ...

Jockusch and Finder, eds., "Jewish Honor Courts"

New from Wayne State University Press: Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaus...

Kessler on Conscientious Objection in WW2

Jeremy K Kessler, Columbia University Law School , has posted A War for Liberty: On the Law of Conscientious Objection , forthcoming in The ...

Sunday Book Roundup

There's plenty of Fourth of July and Founding Fathers themed book reviews and even a review of our blog's founder's most recent ...

Sunday Book Roundup

There's no shortage of book reviews to read this weekend! To start with, The New Rambler   reviews Naomi Murakawa's The First Civil...

Samito on Military Justice and the Black Soldier

Christian G. Samito has posted Equal Rights and the Experience of Military Justice for African American Soldiers , which appeared as a chapt...

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...

Dudziak to Lecture on "the Politics of Distant War"

LHB Founder Mary L. Dudziak has two lectures this month.  She will be delivering the  David M. Kennedy Lecture on the United States in the ...