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It contains links and references to historical documents, books and information.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.
Blawg Related Categories: Civil Rights • Constitutional Law • Legal History • Legislation & Lobbying • University of Southern California • Law Professor
Recent Posts from Legal History Blog
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Wefing on Richard J. Hughes
Just published by the Rutgers University Press is The Life and Times of Richard J. Hughes, by John B. Wefing, Seton Hall University School of Law. According to the Press, the bookexplores the influential public…
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Goodfriend on Baer, Trial of Frederick Eberle
H-SHEAR has published Ethnicity and Language in the Early Republic, a review by Joyce Goodfriend, University of Denver, of Friederike Baer, The Trial of Frederick Eberle: Language, Patriotism and Citizenship in Philadelphia's German Community, 1790…
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Brandeis at the National Archives
The National Archives, in conjunction with the Freedom Forum’s First Amendment Center, will be hosting a panel, Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, the Law and the 21st Century, to be held at the Archives’s…
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Hirtle, et al., on Copyright and Cultural Institutions
Peter B. Hirtle, Cornell University Library, Emily Hudson University of Melbourne Law School, and Andrew T. Kenyon, University of Melbourne Law School have posted Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives,…
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The Law Are an Ass
Minor Myers, Brooklyn Law School, has posted Supreme Court Usage and the Making of an 'Is' It originally appeared in the Green Bag, 2d ser. 11 (Summer 2008): 457. Here's the abstract:This survey examines use…
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Morag-Levine 's Long View on Agency Statutory Interpretation
Noga Morag-Levine, Michigan State University College of Law, has posted Agency Statutory Interpretation and the Rule of Common Law, which is forthcoming in Michigan State Law Review (2009). Here is the abstract:American administrative theory and…
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SHFG Prizes
[Here's an announcement from the Society for History in the Federal Government:]The Society for History in the Federal Government awards two prizes each year for outstanding scholarship in a published article or essay related to…
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Confronting/Imagining Legal Justice & Injustice: at Harvard tomorrow
Tomorrow at Harvard:Confronting Legal Injustice/Imagining Legal Justice Friday, November 06, 2009 9:30 AMAmes Courtroom, Austin HallHarvard Law SchoolCambridge, MA 02138This day-long conference will bring together authors from two recent books co-edited by Professors Charles Ogletree…
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November at the Miller Center
The Governing American in a Global Era Colloquium of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia has a number of interesting sessions this month. Further about webcasts and attending in person…
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Johns on Julius Stone
Fleur E. Johns, Sydney Law School, has posted The Gift of Realism: Julius Stone and the International Legal Academy in Australia, which is forthcoming in Julius Stone: A Study of Influence, eds. H. Irving, J.…