Law & Humanities Blog

James A. Gardner, University at Buffalo Law School, has published Why Law Isn't Jazz: A Response, at 71 Buffalo Law Review The Docket D1...

Kathryn Stanchi, University of Nevada, Law Vegas, School of Law, is publishing The Rhetoric of Rape Through the Lens of Commonwealth v. Berk...

Mira Edmonds, University of Michigan Law School, is publishing Why We Should Stop Talking About Violent Offenders: Storytelling and Decarcer...

Lucien Baumgartner and Markus Kneer, both of the University of Zurich, Institute of Philosophy, are publishing The Meaning of ‘Reasonable’: ...

Lucy Williams, Brigham Young University Law School, is publishing Making a Mother: The Supreme Court and the Constitutive Rhetoric of Mother...

Thomas McMahon has published Canada’s Laws of White Supremacy: 1496-1791 . Here is the abstract. Is it permitted to say "white suprema...

Keith N. Hylton, Boston University School of Law, has published Originalism, Official History, and Perspectives versus Methodologies as Bos...

Beth Rose Middleton Manning and Steven Gayle are publishing Enslaved in a Free Country: Legalized Exploitation of Native Americans and Afric...

ICYMI: Richard K. Sherwin, New York Law School, has published The Narrative Construction of Legal Reality at 18 Vt. L. Rev. 681 (1994). Her...

ICYMI: Lucy Williams, Brigham Young University Law School, has published Blasting Reproach and All-Pervading Light: Frederick Douglass’s Asp...

  CFP From Roger Ventura Cossin, KU Leuven: Call for Papers International conference on Constitutional Communities           When:  8-9 Febr...

Valentin Pinel le Dret, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, has published Freedom of Testation in the Revolu...

Jonathon Booth is publishing Delegitimizing the Supreme Court: The Lessons of Dred Scott in volume 51 of the UC Law Constitutional Quarterl...

Kevin Frazier, St. Thomas University School of Law, is publishing The Next Required Law School Course: History of America’s Foundings in vo...

Dan Rohde and Nicolas Parra-Herrara, both of Harvard Law School, are publishing Law as Architecture: Mapping Contingency and Autonomy in Twe...

Andy Aydin-Aitchinson, University of Edinburgh School of Law, has published Victims, perpetrators, and bystanders: Atrocity and its aftermat...

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...