Legal History Blog

The Legal History Blog is regularly updated with posts about scholarship, news and new ideas in the realm of legal history.

It contains links and references to historical documents, books and information.

Author: Author Mary L. Dudziak is a law professor at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on the impact of international developments on American legal history.

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Recent Posts from Legal History Blog

AHA Book Prize Winners for 2008
The American Historical Association's newsletter for the annual meeting, "New York City and Historians," brings word of the winners of the AHA's book prizes for 2008. These include the winner of the Littleton-Griswold Prize, Rebecca…
Nelson on Summary Judgment and the Progressive Constitution
William E. Nelson, NYU Law School, has posted Summary Judgment and the Progressive Constitution, a contribution to a symposium on Suja Thomas's "Why Summary Judgment In Unconstitutional," Virginia Law Review 93 (2007). In this comment,…
Citizen Whitman
The Governing America in a Global Era program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs will host Jason Frank, Department of Government, Cornell University, on Friday, December 5. Frank's paper, available here,…
Kairys, Philadelphia Freedom, Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer
David Kairys writes in the opening of his new memoir: IT WAS AN OVERCAST EVENING in late February 1972, and mist rose above the Delaware River as I crossed the Ben Franklin Bridge, the ornate…
Enclosures, Radically Reexamined
The Radical History Review has issued a call for papers for a special issue on "enclosures," which it describes as "a term that refers to the twin phenomenon of proprietary demarcation and dispossession that has…
Gilder Lehrman History Scholars Program
This is a generous program that brings college juniors and senior to New York City to participate in historical research during the summer: The Gilder Lehrman Institute welcomes applications from sophomore and junior History and…
Siems on Citation Patterns in Germany, England, and Wales
Mathias M. Siems brings quantitative method to the study of comparative legal history in a new paper, Citation Patterns of the German Federal Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. Siems…
Goldstein on The Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations
American Blacklist: The Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations by Robert Justin Goldstein has just been published by the University Press of Kansas. Here's the book description: Resonating with disturbing implications for the present, American…
Books on Economic History, War, Resistance, and Civil Rights reviewed this week
THE ASCENT OF MONEY: A Financial History Of the World by Niall Ferguson (Penguin Press) gets the cover review by Shelby Coffey III in today's Washington Post. In this "excellent" book, writes Coffey, Ferguson shows…
Braverman, 'The Tree is the Enemy Soldier': A Sociolegal Making of War Landscapes in the Occupied West Bank
Irus Braverman, University at Buffalo Law School, has a fascinating new article on an unexpected topic: 'The Tree is the Enemy Solider': A Sociolegal Making of War Landscapes in the Occupied West Bank. It appears…