George on the Sex Research and the Decriminalization of Sodomy

Marie-Amelie George , Associate in Law, Columbia University Law School , and ABD Yale University, has posted The Harmless Psychopath: Legal ...

Sunday Book Roundup

Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) is reviewed on The Daily B...

Liberals and Religious Conscience

With the courts still grappling with challenges to the contraceptive mandate of the Affordable Care Act, conscience-based objections will li...

Weekend Roundup

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

Weekend Roundup

"Donald Trump’s lawyer was right: In some places, raping your wife is still treated like a minor offense" -- so says legal histori...

Call for Papers: California Law Review Symposium on Obergefell v. Hodges

We have been closely covering historians' commentary on Obergefell v. Hodges , a decision that stands out for its multifaceted uses of h...

Cott on Obergefell

The latest issue of Perspectives , the newsmagazine of the American Historical Association, includes a reflection piece by Nancy Cott (Har...

Historians and the Obergefell Decision - updated

Both the majority opinion and the dissents in Obergefell v. Hodges , the recent Supreme Court same-sex marriage case, are notable for their ...