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Tani and Stein on ASLH Panel: Civilizing and Un-Civilizing War in the Nineteenth Century
Posted on November 19, 2009Tani on ASLH Panel: Gender, Soldiering, and Citizenship in the 20th Century United States
Posted on November 17, 2009Devins on How Planned Parenthood v. Casey (Pretty Much) Settled the Abortion Wars
Posted on November 10, 2009Fudge and Tucker on Picketing Before the British Columbia Court of Appeals
Posted on November 04, 2009Pether on Constitutional Solipsism and the Article III Duties of Federal Courts
Posted on October 30, 2009Miller on The Corporate Law Background of the Necessary and Proper Clause
Posted on October 30, 2009Landsberg on the Kennedy Justice Deptartment's Enforcement of Civil Rights
Posted on October 26, 2009Cramer, Johnson & Mocsary on the Public Meaning of the 2nd Amendment when the 14th Amendment Was Ratified
Posted on October 23, 2009Lydon on Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in 19th C. Western Africa
Posted on October 20, 2009Recently reviewed books -- Human Rights, the Cold War, Jim Crow, and more
Posted on October 19, 2009Jacobson, Catalonia's Advocates: Lawyers, Society, and Politics in Barcelona, 1759-1900
Posted on October 19, 2009Reviewed: Benhabib and Resnik (eds.), Migrations and Mobilities: Citizenship, Borders, and Gender
Posted on October 14, 2009Fox on 14th Amendment Citizenship and the Reconstruction-Era Black Public Sphere
Posted on September 24, 2009Raustiala, Does the Constitution Follow the Flag? The Evolution of Territoriality in American Law
Posted on September 18, 2009Tsuk Mitchell and Mitchell on The Financial Determinants of Corporate Governance
Posted on September 14, 2009Dailey on The Politics of Miscegination After Brown, at ABF/Univ. of Illinois legal history seminar
Posted on September 14, 2009Slavery's Constitution, a cultural history of the Great Depression, and more in the book pages
Posted on September 13, 2009Dervan on Selective Use of History in the Supreme Court's States' Rights Opinions
Posted on September 13, 2009German Refugees at Historically Black Colleges: "Beyond Swastika to Jim Crow"
Posted on September 12, 2009Lahav on Portraits of Resistance: Lawyer Responses to Unjust Proceedings
Posted on September 10, 2009Pettys on Fritz, American Sovereigns: The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War
Posted on September 02, 2009Pfander on The Story of Bivens v. Six Unknown-Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics
Posted on September 01, 2009Penningroth on Claims of Slaves and Ex-Slaves to Family and Property: A Transatlantic History
Posted on August 31, 2009Dervan on Herman Talmadge, the Georgia Supreme Court and the Gubernatorial Election of 1946
Posted on August 29, 2009Hendley on The Role of Contracts in Russian Industry During the Transition to the Market
Posted on August 28, 2009Andreen on Insights on Federalism from the History of Water Pollution Control
Posted on August 17, 2009Gilmer on The Life and Times of a Free Family of Color in Antebellum Texas
Posted on August 15, 2009McClain and Grossman, Gender Equality: Dimensions of Women's Equal Citizenship
Posted on August 13, 2009Haney-Lopez on Crime Control and Racial Stratification in the Age of Obama
Posted on August 10, 2009Turner on Archival Research as Empirical (or why statisticians should "cozy up" to historians...)
Posted on August 01, 2009Lahav, American Moment[s]: When, How, and Why Did Israeli Law Faculties Come to Resemble Elite U.S. Law Schools?
Posted on July 30, 2009Lacey, Women, Crime and Character: From Moll Flanders to Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Posted on July 29, 2009Bird and Smythe on Legal Precedents, Judicial Discretion, and the Diffusion of Strict Liability, 1963-87
Posted on July 29, 2009Reviewed: Gordon, Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City
Posted on July 28, 2009Levenstein on African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia
Posted on July 28, 2009Brooks on Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California
Posted on July 24, 2009Sellers on Classical Influences on the Founders and on the French Revolution
Posted on July 23, 2009Mashaw and Perry on Administrative Statutory Interpretation in the Antebellum Republic
Posted on July 13, 2009Sunday book review round-up: books on conservatives, California, Lena Horne, Satchel Page, and more
Posted on July 12, 2009Novkov reviews memoir of Betty Roberts, first woman justice on the Oregon Supreme Court
Posted on July 07, 2009Sunday Book Round-up: works on Marian Anderson, I.F. Stone, George Washington, Ellis Island, and WWI
Posted on July 05, 2009Bressman on Craig v. Boren and Brennan's 'Heightened Scrutiny' Test in Historical Perspective
Posted on July 02, 2009Pope on the Role of Direct Popular Power in the American Constitutional Order
Posted on June 30, 2009Religious History most prominent among members of American Historical Association
Posted on June 30, 2009Curran reviews Jurists Uprooted: German-speaking Emigre Lawyers in Twentieth-century Britain
Posted on June 29, 2009Reviewed: books on Clarence Darrow, Guantanamo, and the nation after King's assassination
Posted on June 21, 2009Edwards, The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South
Posted on June 09, 2009Carruthers, Guinnane, and Lee on the Passage of the Uniform Small Loan Law, 1907-1930
Posted on June 08, 2009Conference: The Challenge of Carl Schmitt: Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and International Law
Posted on June 05, 2009Terranova on the history of instructions from state legislatures to federal representatives
Posted on May 27, 2009More from Calo on Catholic Social Thought, the Establishment Clause, Human Rights, and Poor Relief
Posted on May 25, 2009Friedman on Reconstruction: Some Problems for Originalists (and for Everyone Else, Too)
Posted on May 25, 2009Reviewed: Books on The American Future, women soldiers in Iraq, Israel and Palestine in 1948, and Vanderbilt
Posted on May 24, 2009Grossman on Roscoe Pound's Flawed Portrait of James Coolidge Carter's Historical Jurisprudence
Posted on May 22, 2009Special Issue: Personal Law, Identity Politics and Civil Society in Colonial South Asia
Posted on May 22, 2009Calo on the Evolution of Catholic Social Thought and Progressive Reform, 1900-1919
Posted on May 21, 2009Scholarship for Graduate Study in the History of Scots Property Law, Univ. of Edinburgh
Posted on May 21, 2009Howson on Xu, Trial of Modernity: Judicial Reform in Early Twentieth-Century China, 1901-37
Posted on May 05, 2009Vintage Maltz on John Marshall Harlan's View of Race and Fourteenth Amendment Concepts in the Antebellum Era
Posted on May 04, 2009The history of the Law of Nations in U.S. Courts debated at the Columbia L. Rev. Sidebar
Posted on April 28, 2009Stanton reviews Bon Tempo, Americans at the Gate: The United States and Refugees during the Cold War
Posted on April 13, 2009Smythe, A Schumpeterian View of the Great Merger Movement in U.S. Manufacturing
Posted on April 09, 2009Reviewed: Keith, The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror and the Death of Reconstruction
Posted on April 07, 2009Bennett's History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism: a Roundtable
Posted on March 31, 2009Easton on Earl Caldwell, the NY Times, and the Quest for a Testimonial Privilege
Posted on March 30, 2009Some Good Books in Asian Legal History (III): Scully, Bargaining with the State from Afar
Posted on March 23, 2009American Exceptionalism (for and against), the Framing and more in the Book Reviews
Posted on March 22, 2009Deardorff reviews Frymer, Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party
Posted on March 20, 2009Fellowship in American Legal Bibliography and History at Harvard Law School Library
Posted on March 19, 2009Some Good Books in Asian Legal History (II): Dudden, Japan's Colonization of Korea
Posted on March 17, 2009Garrow reviews Satter, Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America
Posted on March 15, 2009Mack and MacLean Dialogue on Civil Rights History in Law and History Review
Posted on March 10, 2009Maltz on The Presidency, the Electoral College, and the Three-Fifths Clause
Posted on March 09, 2009Reviewed: Nelson on The Common Law of Colonial America, Shain on Rights at the Founding, and Feldman on Free Expression
Posted on March 08, 2009Howe on Slavery as Punishment and the Original Public Meaning of the 13th Amendment
Posted on February 25, 2009Possible Topics for Graduate Students in 18th-Century English Legal History
Posted on February 25, 2009The Warsaw Ghetto, Vietnam-era war crimes and bombing Wall Street in the Sunday book reviews
Posted on February 22, 2009Dale on People v. Coughlin and Criticisms of the Criminal Jury in Late Nineteenth-Century Chicago
Posted on February 18, 2009Sunday book reviews: Berry on the Commission on Civil Rights, Norrell on Booker T. Washington, and FDR books
Posted on February 15, 2009More from Kontorovich: The Constitutionality of International Courts: The Forgotten Precedent of Slave Trade Tribunals
Posted on February 13, 2009New reviews: books on the history of state secrets, Calvinism at the American founding, Lincoln & Darwin
Posted on February 08, 2009Long on a the history of judicial selection in Virginia and West Virginia
Posted on February 02, 2009Book news on a Nixon tapes controversy, Darwin books, Sugrue review, and more
Posted on February 01, 2009University of North Carolina Press Publishes "the Long Civil Rights Movement"
Posted on January 31, 2009MLK scholar Clayborne Carson to speak at lauch of new California International Law Center
Posted on January 30, 2009Reviewed: Maveety on the Rehnquist Era and Hoffer on The Treason Trials of Aaron Burr
Posted on January 28, 2009MacDonald on European Private Law and the Challenge of Plural Legal Subjectivities
Posted on January 26, 2009A British historian takes on the U.S., Kazin takes aim at presidential histories, and more in the book reviews
Posted on January 25, 2009Blake and Hacker on The Hidden Legal Axiom at Work in Brown v. Board of Education
Posted on January 24, 2009Then & now: D.C. is the "window through which the world looks into our house"
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