Ahmed Memon, Cardiff School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University, has published, open access, “English in taste, Indian in blood”: caste hegemony in the making of British international legal thought, in the London Review of International Law:In this article, I argue that caste was a central factor in the development of British
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Labor's Roundtable on the Immigration Act of 1924
LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History 20:4 (December 2023) includes a roundtable on the 100th anniversary of the 1924 Immigration Act.IntroductionEric Arnesen“The Architecture of Immigration Restriction, 1924”Mai Ngai“Nativism and the Bottom Line: Contemporary Legacies of the Immigration Act of 1924”Daniel Tichenor“The Immigration Act of 1924 and Farm Labor” John Weber“Labor’s Long Road to Immigrant Inclusion”Ruth Milkman“The…
Schwartz on Neo-Garrisonianism, Essententialism and the Constitution of 1787
David S. Schwartz, University of Wisconsin Law School, has posted Is the Constitution of 1787 a White Supremacist Document? Against Essentialism in Constitutional Interpretation, which is forthcoming in the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal:William Lloyd Garrison (wiki)A curious convergence is emerging in legal academia around the conclusion…
Deadline extended (Mar. 31) for Law & Social Inquiry Graduate Student Paper Competition
The journal of Law & Social Inquiry seeks submission for the Graduate Student Paper Competition:The editors of Law & Social Inquiry are pleased to announce our
annual competition for the best journal-length paper in the field of law
and social science written by a graduate or law student. Law &
Social Inquiry publishes empirical…
The Centenary of the Irish Free State Constitution
Palgrave Macmillan has published the essay collection, The Centenary of the Irish Free State Constitution: Constituting a Polity? Its editors are Laura Cahillane, Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Limerick, and Donal K. Coffey, Assistant Professor in the School of Law and Criminology at the National University of Ireland,…
The Long 1920s: A Book Conference on Post's "Taft Court"
[We have the following announcement. DRE.]The NYU School of Law and Yale Law School are delighted to invite you to a book conference in honor of the publication of Volume X of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court, The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921-1930, by…
Tsai, "Demand the Impossible: One Lawyer's Pursuit of Equal Justice for All"
W.W. Norton has published Demand the Impossible: One Lawyer’s Pursuit of Equal Justice for All (2024), by Robert L. Tsai (Boston University). A description from the Press:Stephen Bright emerged on the scene as a cause lawyer in the
early decades of mass incarceration, when inflammatory politics and
harsh changes to criminal justice policy were…
BHC Prizes to Con Díaz and Canaday
Several prizes of interest to legal historians were awarded at the just-concluded Business History Conference. One was the Anne Fleming Article Prize, awarded jointly ever other year jointly with the American Society for Legal History “to the author or authors of the best article published in the previous two years in either Law and …
Balkin, "Rabbi Akiva and the Crowns: A Parable of Constitutional Fidelity"
Jack Balkin (Yale Law School) has posted “Rabbi Akiva and the Crowns: A Parable of Constitutional Fidelity.” The abstract:Historian Jonathan Gienapp argues that the Founding generation held very
different views about constitutions, law, rights, and judicial review
than lawyers do today. His target is conservative originalism, but his
arguments are important for originalists…
Tani on the History of the Tort of "Wrongful LIfe"
Last year, I had the privilege of participating in the Clifford Symposium at DePaul College of Law — an annual convening of torts scholars. The symposium theme in 2023 was “new torts.” The published versions of the symposium papers are now available. My contribution is titled “When a Wrong Creates a Life: Tort …