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It contains links and references to historical documents, books and information.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

Pfander on Judicial Compensation and the Definition of Judicial Power in the Early Republic
James E. Pfander, Northwestern, has a new article, Judicial Compensation and the Definition of Judicial Power in the Early Republic. It is forthcoming in the Michigan Law Review (2008). Here's the abstract: Article III's provision…
ASLH Ottawa: An Update
A new preliminary program for the Ottawa meeting of the American Society for Legal History is available on the ASLH website, as a pdf here or as a Word document here. In addition to a…
Llewellyn Lives!
Just posted on the University of Chicago's Law Faculty Blog is a downloadable mp3 recording of an undated lecture from Karl N. Llewellyn's family law course, taught sometime during his tenure at Chicago (1951-62). I've…
Foner on Gordon Reed, Moyn on Bass, Novkov on Dudziak
Eric Foner, Columbia University, takes up Annette Gordon Reed's THE HEMINGSES OF MONTICELLO: An American Family in today's New York Times. He finds it "a work based on prodigious research in the voluminous Jefferson papers…
Comment moderation to reduce spam
Apologies, but I have had to change the settings for comments posted to the Legal History Blog. It used to be that comments would appear automatically. But in the last day or so a number…
Women and Blogging: what you can do right now
It was hard to know what to say when a law blogger asked "Do Women Blog?" a week before the women bloggers convention. I just kept blogging. C.C. Holland now has an article on Law.com,…
Feeley and Rubin on Federalism
Malcolm M. Feeley and Edward Rubin draw upon history in their new book, Federalism: Political Identity and Tragic Compromise, just published by the University of Michigan Press. This is clearly a book that should at…
Jerome Hall Postdoctoral Fellowship at Indiana University
The Center for Law, Society and Culture at the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington announces the creation of the Jerome Hall Postdoctoral Fellowship. According to the announcement,The Center will appoint up to three post-doctoral fellows…
The Flowering of Civil Law
The Flowering of Civil Law: Early Italian City Statutes in the Yale Law Library is a new exhibit, running from October 21008 to February 2009, at the Rare Book Exhibition Gallery of the Lillian Goldman…
Fisher on The Constitution and 9/11
The Constitution and 9/11: Recurring Threats to America's Freedoms, a new book by Louis Fisher, a leading scholar of executive power at the Congressional Research Service, has just been published by the University Press of…