Legal History Blog Posts from November 19, 2009
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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 Karen Tani, Sharswood Fellow in Law and History, University of Pennsylvania.Another highlight of the 2010 ASLH annual meeting was a panelPosted on Legal History Blog on November 19, 2009 at 11:13 AM
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 Conservative Insurgency and Presidential Power: A Developmental Perspective on the Unitary Executive," Harvard Law Review 122 (200Posted on Legal History Blog on November 19, 2009 at 2:46 AM
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 the Surrency Prize Committee, chaired by Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Law School and Rutgers-Newark History.]The Surrency Prize for 2008 is awarded to GPosted on Legal History Blog on November 19, 2009 at 2:40 AM
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 the full report of the Sutherland Prize Committee, chaired by James Oldham, Georgetown University Law Center.]The Sutherland Prize, named in honorPosted on Legal History Blog on November 19, 2009 at 2:33 AM
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, Bradwell v. Illinois, and Cruikshank v. United States, which were all decided between 1873 and 1876, were thePosted on Legal History Blog on November 19, 2009 at 1:59 AM
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 Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South (University of North Carolina Press)Posted on Legal History Blog on November 18, 2009 at 10:42 AM
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 Women in the Medieval CourtroomThis panel focused on the unique place women had in the court room during the Middle Ages inPosted on Legal History Blog on November 18, 2009 at 8:19 AM
The Cromwell Book and Dissertation Prizes
[We've previously noted the winners of this year's Cromwell Book and Dissertation Prizes, which are made and funded by the Cromwell Foundation with the advice of a committee of the American Society for Legal History. At the ASLH's annual meeting, the chair of the ASLH Advisory Committee on the Cromwell Prizes, Richard Ross, thanked the Foundation "forPosted on Legal History Blog on November 18, 2009 at 3:31 AM
Cromwell Foundation Fellowship Awards
[From H-Law, we have the following report of the announcement of the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Fellows at the recently concluded annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History:]In 2009, the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation made available a number of awards intended to support research and writing in American legal history. (The FouPosted on Legal History Blog on November 18, 2009 at 2:48 AM
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