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Hershkoff and Littlestone-Luria on History, Tradition, Standing, and Louisiana Law
By Dan Ernst
Helen Hershkoff and Adam Littlestone-Luria, New York University School of Law, have posted The Louisiana Constitution and the Courts of Westminster: Standing and the Civil Law Heritage, which is forthcoming in the Louisiana Law Review:A substantial majority of the Roberts Court now purports to rest constitutional jurisprudence on a legal “history and…
Fede's "A Degraded Caste of Society"
By Dan Ernst
Andrew T. Fede, of counsel to the law firm Archer & Greiner and the author of several other histories of race and American law, has published A Degraded Caste of Society: Unequal Protection of the Law as a Badge of Slavery in the Southern Legal Studies series at the University of Georgia Press:A …
Welcome to Guest Blogger Marie-Amélie George!
By Karen Tani
We are delighted to welcome Professor Marie-Amélie George to the blog for the month of October. Cribbing here from her Wake Forest Law faculty bio — Marie-Amélie George (WF Law)Marie-Amélie George specializes in LGBTQ rights and teaches courses on
civil procedure and family law. As a historian, she analyzes both how
and why…
Legal History at Queen Mary University of London
By Dan Ernst
The Department of Law, Queen Mary University of London, has announced three upcoming events of interest to legal historians. All are free and everyone is welcomed.16 OctoberLaw, Labour, and Economy in the 19th CenturyWith Jonathan Connolly, Bronwen Everill, Erik Mathisen, and Miles Ogborn23 OctoberThe Devil in Medieval Legal CultureWith Karl…
Call for Applications: Lapidus Fellowship for the Study of Rare Early American Legal Texts
By Karen Tani
Via the William & Mary Law School and the Omohundro Institute of
Early American History & Culture, we have the following call for applications, for the Lapidus Fellowship for the Study of Rare Early American Legal Texts: The William & Mary Law School and the Omohundro Institute of
Early American History & Culture (OI)…
Balkin on "Cafeteria Originalism"
By Dan Ernst
Jack Balkin, Yale Law School, has posted We Are All Cafeteria Originalists Now (and We Always Have Been), which is forthcoming in the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal:Americans are “cafeteria originalists.” They pick and choose when to follow the views of the founders, framers, or adopters (as they understand…
Tomlins's "Legal History/History of Law at Berkeley"
By Dan Ernst
Christopher L. Tomlins, Berkeley Law, has written, as a digital “flipbook,” Legal History/History of Law at Berkeley, 1870-2024. Presently it resides here, although in time it might migrate to California Digital Library. (For good measure, we’re putting a QR code at right.) Here is Professor Tomlins’s introduction:As a field of study and practice in…
NAACP Legal Defense Records Now Online
By Dan Ernst
[We have the following announcement from the Library of Congress. H/t: JQB. DRE]NAACP Legal Defense Fund Records Newly Digitized and Now Available Online from the Library of CongressA major portion of the processed records of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund are now available online for the first time from the Library of…
Shugerman on the Rise of the Prosecutor Politician
By Dan Ernst
Jed H. Shugerman, Boston University School of Law, has posted The Rise of the Prosecutor Politicians: Race, War, and the Roots of Mass Incarceration:Earl Warren (LC)This excerpt is from my book project, “The Rise of the Prosecutor Politicians: Race, War, and the Roots of Mass Incarceration.” The book begins…
