Mayeri on Marital Supremacy and the Constitution of the Nonmarital Family

Serena Mayeri, University of Pennsylvania Law School , has posted Marital Supremacy and the Constitution of the Nonmarital Family , which ap...

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...

Thomas and Boisseau on the ERA as the "Next Logical Step"

Tracy A. Thomas , University of Akron School of Law, and Tracey Jean Boisseau , University of Akron, have posted After Suffrage Comes Equal ...

Manion and Careceral Culture and Working Women in Early America

We’ve seen an announcement of Capitalism, Carceral Culture, and the Domestication of Working Women in the Early American City , by Jen Mani...

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...

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)....

Porter, "Their Lives, Their Wills: Women in the Borderlands, 1750–1846"

New from Texas Tech University Press: Their Lives, Their Wills: Women in the Borderlands, 1750–1846 , by Amy M. Porter (Texas A&M Unive...

Population Control, Immigration, and Environmentalism

Population controllers are some of the most fascinating characters to appear in After Roe . Some of these activists, like former Columbia st...

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...

Two New Books on Black Incarceration

We recently noticed the publication of two new books on the history of the criminal punishment of African Americans.  Talitha L. LeFlouri , ...

Women as Printers, Donors, and Owners of Law Texts

Via H-Law, we have word of a new exhibit at the Yale Law Library, Evidence of Women: Women as Printers, Donors, and Owners of Law Texts. W...

Woloch's "Class by Herself"

Just out is Nancy Woloch’s A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015)...

Katz Discusses "Women in the Mosque"

Over at New Books in History , Kristian Petersen talks to Marion Holmes Katz about Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Soci...

Sunday Book Roundup

Hello from Seattle and the Law & Society Association Conference! Here's a list of reviews for this Sunday's reading: H-Net has p...

New Release: Cuno, "Modernizing Marriage"

New from Syracuse University Press: Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt , by Ke...

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...

Sunday Book Roundup

The Washington Post has a review of Cokie Roberts's Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868  (Harper). Char...

Sunday Book Roundup

In The Nation, two books-- The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor by William Easterly (Basic) ...

Katz on Judicial Patriarchy, Domestic Violence, and the Family Privacy Narrative

Elizabeth Katz , a doctoral candidate in History at Harvard University , with an JD and MA in history from the University of Virginia, has...

Jones on the Lynch Nomination on HuffPo

Martha S. Jones, University of Michigan History and Afroamerican and African Studies, over at Huffington Post on the Loretta Lynch nominati...