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It contains links and references to historical documents, books and information.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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Sweeny on ASLH Panel: Biography and Legal History
JoAnne Sweeny, Ph.D. candidate, Queen Mary University of London, and Westerfield Fellow, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, contributes this post on the American Society for Legal History panel on Biography and Legal History.This…
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Walker on Justice Powell
Anders Walker, Saint Louis University School of Law, has posted Diversity's Strange Career: Recovering the Racial Pluralism of Lewis F. Powell, Jr., which is forthcoming in the Santa Clara Law Review. Here is the abstract:Though…
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Rosen on Unwanted Copyrights
Zvi S. Rosen, a member of the New York Bar, has posted The Unwanted Copyrights: Higgins, Bleistein, and Commercial Prints & Labels 1874-1940. Here’s the abstract:This article traces the development of copyright law in commercial…
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Tani and Stein on ASLH Panel: Civilizing and Un-Civilizing War in the Nineteenth Century
This post on last week's American Society for Legal History meeting comes from Josh Stein, Bernard and Irene Schwartz Postdoctoral Fellow at the New School for Social Research and the New York Historical Society and…
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Skowronek on the Unitary Executive
I have been listening to a podcast of a presentation by Stephen Skowronek (Yale Political and Social Science) at the Miller Center for Public Affairs of his brilliant intervention into the Unitary Executive literature, "The…
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ASLH: The Surrency Prize
[We've previously noted, via a posting of H-Law's report on the annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History, that Gautham Rao has won the ASLH's Surrency Prize. Here is the full report of…
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ASLH: The Sutherland Prize
[We've previously noted, via a posting of H-Law's report on the annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History, that Paul Halliday and G. Edward White have won the ASLH's Sutherland Prize. Here is…
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Huhn on Slaughterhouse, Bradwell and Cruikshank
Wilson Ray Huhn, University of Akron School of Law, has posted Legacy of Slaughterhouse, Bradwell and Cruikshank in Constitutional Interpretation, which also appears in Akron Law Review 42 (2009). Here is the abstract:The Slaughterhouse Cases,…
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AHA Book Prizes Announced
The latest issue of the AHA Perspectives on History brings word that Laura F. Edwards, Duke University, has won the American Historical Association's Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Law and Society for The People and Their…
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Sweeny on ASLH panel: Exceptional Women in the Medieval Courtroom
Our next ASLH post comes from JoAnne Sweeny, Ph.D. candidate, Queen Mary University of London, and Westerfield Fellow, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law (and my former student at USC Law School). From Sweeny:Exceptional…