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Lawrence MacDonnell, University of Colorado Law School, is publishing The 1922 Colorado River Compact at 100 in volume 33 of Western Legal ...

From  David Gurnham,  Professor of Criminal Law and Interdisciplinary Legal Studies,  School of Law, University of Southampton I’m pleased t...

Yxta Maya Murray, Loyola Law School, is publishing The People of California vs. Juan de Dios Ramirez Villa in the Yale Journal of Law and t...

Douglas E. Abrams, University of Missouri School of Law, has published Writing It Right: References to Beatles Songs in Advocacy and Judicia...

Joseph Blocher and Brandon L. Garrett, both of Duke University School of Law, are publishing Originalism and Historical Fact-Finding in the...

Matthew J. Steilen, State University of New York at Buffalo Law School, has publlished Genteel Culture, Legal Education, and Constitutional ...

Brian DeLay, University of California, Berkeley, has published The Myth of Continuity in American Gun Culture . Here is the abstract. The ...

Owen Smitherman, Harvard Law School, is publishing History, Public Rights, and Article III Standing in volume 47 of the Harvard Journal of ...

David N. McNeill, Independent Researcher, and Emily Tucker, Center on Privacy & Technology, Georgetown Law Center, have published The Sh...

Robert L. Tsai, Boston University School of Law, and Mary Ziegler, University of California, Davis, School of Law, are publishing Abortion P...

Samuel Moyn, Yale University, has published Reconstructing Critical Legal Studies . Here is the abstract. It is an increasingly propitious ...

Mark Satta, Wayne State University, is publishing What Was Orwell's Conception of Free Speech? in George Orwell Studies. Here is the ab...

Derek Webb, Yale Law School, has published The Great Synthesizer: Natural Rights, the Law of Nations, and the Moral Sense in the Philosophic...

Jack M. Balkin, Yale Law School, and Sanford Levinson, University of Texas Law School, are publishing Frederick Douglass as Constitutionalis...

James Toomey, Pace University School of Law, is publishing Darwin's Reinach in Reinach and the Foundations of Private Law (Marietta Aue...

Victoria Hooton, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, and Christopher Murphy, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crim...

Mark Tushnet, Harvard Law School, has published Varieties of Constitutionalism . Here is the abstract. This essay, to appear in a revised ...

Aaron Tang, University of California, Davis, School of Law, is publishing Lessons From Lawrence: How "History" Gave Us Dobbs—And H...

Coel Kirkby, University of Sydney Law School, has published Abysmal Jurisprudence: On the Genesis of John Finnis’s Practical Guide to States...

Harold Anthony Lloyd, Wake Forest University School of Law, is publishing Langdell and the Eclipse of Character in the University of Pittsb...

Nathan B. Oman, William & Mary Law School, is publishing Property and the Latter-day Saint Tradition as a William & Mary Law School...

Malcolm Rutherford, University of Victoria, Department of Economics, has published Racism, Segregation, Acceptance: American Economics and B...

Jed H. Shugerman, Boston University School of Law, has published Movement on Removal: An Emerging Consensus on the First Congress . Here is ...

Anthony B. Sanders, Institute for Justice, has published Mystery of the Missing Babies . Here is the abstract. This essay begins with my r...

William Michael Treanor, Georgetown University Law Center, is publishing Gouverneur Morris and the Drafting of the Federalist Constitution ...

Lukas van den Berge, Utrecht University Faculty of Law, has published Phersu, Prosōpon, Persona: On Legal Personhood, Roman Sculpture and th...

Hector Olasolo, Universidad del Rosario; Iberoamerican Institute of The Hague (IIH); The Hague University of Applied Sciences, International...

Andrew Coan, University of Arizona College of Law, and David S. Schwartz, University of Wisconsin Law School, have published Interpreting Ra...

Maureen E. Brady, Harvard Law School, is publishing Cottages as Public Nuisances: The Long History of Land Use Regulation of the Poor in th...

Helen J. Knowles-Gardner, Institute for Free Speech, is publishing Arriving at an Answer to the ‘The Question of Questions’: How Lysander Sp...

John R. Brooks, Fordham University School of Law, and David Gamage, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, have published Moore v. United ...

Michael C. Blumm, Lewis & Clark Law School, has published A Brief American Legal History in a Nutshell (Table of Contents and Chapter 2)...

John K. M. Ohnesorge, University of Wisconsin Law School, is publishing Regulation of the Legal Profession in China: An Historical Overview ...

Ken Levy, Louisiana State University Law Center, has published On Three Arguments Against Metaphysical Libertarianism at 76 Review of Metap...

Guy Baldwin, Cambridge Faculty of Law, has published Rawls and Animal Moral Personality at 13 Animals 1238 (2023). Here is the abstract. ...

M. C. Mirow, Florida International University College of Law, has published The Mexican Civil Code of 1928 and the Social Function of Proper...

John Bernard Quigley, Ohio State University College of Law, is publishing Diplomatic and Consular Law in the Age of Empire in The Cambridge...

John Witte, Emory University School of Law, and Rafael Domingo, University of Navarra School of Law, are publishing Preface to Oxford Handbo...

Ross E. Davies, George Mason University Law School; The Green Bag, has published How Watson Learned the Trick: An Illustrated, Annotated, Pa...

Giuseppe Martinico, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa, has published Is Batman Above the Law? Law and Justice in the Batman Fictional Univ...

Lucy A. Jewel, University of Tennessee College of Law, is publishing Dark Connections in volume 56 of the Creighton Law Review (2023). Here...

John Witte, Emory University School of Law, has published “We Must Obey God Rather Than Men”: Lutheran Resistance Against Pope and Emperor i...

Ryan Mitchell, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Faculty of Law, is publishing Vast Imperium: The Origins of Modern Chinese Concep...

Oswald Essien has published Interpretation of the Copyright’s Public Domain in the European Union; a Critical Discourse Analysis . Here is t...

Kevin Bendesky, Harvard Law School, is publishing ‘The Key-Stone to the Arch’: Unlocking Section 13’s Original Meaning in volume 26 of the ...

Amanda L. Tyler, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, is publishing Judicial Review in Times of Emergency: from the Founding t...

Mariana Candido, Emory University, Mariana Dias Paes, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, and Juelma de Matos Ngãla, Ma...

Palak Surana, O. P. Jindal Global University, has published Breaking the Cycle: Exposing Victim Blaming in Media Through the "Pink Lens...

Thomas Mohr, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, has published Opposition to the 1922 Irish Free State Constitution as UCD...

ICYMI: Marco Roscini, University of Westminster School of Law; Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, has publis...