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It contains links and references to historical documents, books and information.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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Rose on Medieval Law and Lawyers
Jonathan Rose, Arizona State University Law School, has posted on SSRN several items from his "backlist":“Litigation and Political Conflict in Fifteenth-Century East Anglia: Conspiracy and Attaint Actions and Sir John Fastolf,” Journal of Legal History,…
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Pierson v. Post: Proceedings in the Justice's Court
[This is the third in a series of posts on the case of Pierson v. Post. The series begins here.]Proceedings in the Justice’s CourtThe limited view of proceedings in the trial court from the published…
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McAffee on Treanor on Amar on the 9th Amendment
Taking History Seriously: Reflections on a Critique of Amar's Treatment of the Ninth Amendment in His Work on the Bill of Rights is a new paper by Thomas McAffee, William S. Boyd School of Law,…
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How to Post Comments
Updated & moved to the top of the blogNew issue: If you would like to leave a comment, and you can't find the "comments" link at the bottom of a post, it is most likely…
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Pierson v. Post: The Protagonists
[This is the second in a series of posts on the case of Pierson v. Post. The series begins here.]For a very long time, all that was known about Pierson v. Post, was what appeared…
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Bressman on Craig v. Boren and Brennan's 'Heightened Scrutiny' Test in Historical Perspective
A New Standard of Review: Craig V. Boren and Brennan's 'Heightened Scrutiny' Test in Historical Perspective is an article by Jeremy Owen Bressman. The abstract has just been posted on SSRN. It indicates that the…
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Pierson v. Post: The New Learning
Pierson v. Post, 3 Caines 175 (N.Y. 1805) is one of the most commonly assigned cases in first-year Property courses. For many years our only information about the case, other than the report itself, has…
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Schorr on Legal Transplantation in the Colonial Context
Questioning Harmonization: Legal Transplantation in the Colonial Context is a new essay by David Schorr, Tel Aviv University, Buchmann Faculty of Law. It appears in Theoretical Inquiries in Law Forum (2009). Here's the abstract: This…
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Reza on Search and Seizure in Islamic Doctrine and Muslim Practice
Islam’s Fourth Amendment: Search and Seizure in Islamic Doctrine and Muslim Practice, by Sadiq Reza, New York Law School, has just been posted on SSRN. It appears in the Georgetown Journal of International Law (2009).…
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Crises and Consequences: A Call for Papers
The Hagley Library has issued the following call for papers for "Crisis and Consequence: A Conference at the Hagley Library, Wilmington, Delaware":Economic crises have been the midwife to dramatic social change throughout American history. For…