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28 May 2012, 2:00 am
A new issue of the Journal of American History is out. It is a special issue on “Oil in American History." The TOC is here.Book reviews of interest include: Tracy A. Thomas on Barbara Babcock, Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz (Stanford University Press).Akim D. Reinhardt on Laughlin McDonald, American Indians and the Fight for Equal Voting Rights (University of Oklahoma Press).Daniel Kilbride on Richard Newman and James Mueller, eds., Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia: Emancipation… [read post]
6 Jul 2012, 1:00 am
The July 2012 issue of History, the journal of the Historical Association, is out.Book reviews of interest include:Levi Roach on Linda Tollerton, Wills and Will-Making in Anglo-Saxon England (Boydell, for York Medieval Press) (here).Catherine Rider on P. G. Maxwell-Stuart, Witch Beliefs and Witch Trials in the Middle Ages: Documents and Readings (Continuum) (here).Paul Brand on Karl Shoemaker, Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400–1500 (Fordham University Press) (here).The issue also… [read post]
6 Oct 2010, 5:15 am
The current issue of George Washington University Law Review publishes two closely related symposia, one on Philip Hamburger's Law and Judicial Duty and the other on Barry Friedman's The Will of the People. Here are the abstracts and links to the on-line edition.Ann Althouse, The Historical Ordinariness of Judicial ReviewThe delightful thing about Philip Hamburger’s Law and Judicial Duty is the [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 2:00 am
With hopes of encouraging readers to continue supporting Japan relief and recovery efforts, a spotlight on recent scholarship on Japanese legal history:Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Borderline Japan: Foreigners and Frontier Controls in the Postwar Era (Cambridge, 2010).This book offers a radical reinterpretation of postwar Japan's policies towards immigrants and foreign residents. Drawing on a wealth of [read post]
8 Feb 2010, 10:56 pm
Frank Partnoy, University of San Diego School of Law, has posted Historical Perspectives on the Financial Crisis: Ivar Kreuger, the Credit-Rating Agencies, and Two Theories About the Function, and Dysfunction, of Markets. Partnoy is the author of a recent book on Kreuger, The Match King (pictured below). Here is the abstract of the SSRN paper:This Essay discusses two historical parallels [read post]
23 Dec 2010, 11:42 am
Applications are invited — with submission deadline of 31 January 2011 — for scholarships for the Ph.D. program in Artificial Intelligence in Law at European University Institute Law Department, in Florence, Italy.
HT Prof. Dr. Giovanni Sartor.
Filed under: Grants, Scholarships Tagged: Artificial intelligence and law, EUI, European University Institute, Giovanni Sartor, Legal informatics grants, Legal informatics scholarships [read post]
24 Mar 2010, 11:02 am
Joel A. Mintz, Review of Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration: Five Case Studies from the United States, 40 Environmental Law Review 335 (2010) BOOK REVIEW (abstract from Environmental Law Review) [read post]
18 Oct 2010, 2:00 am
What are the "rules of fair play" in a field that attracts scholars from various disciplines? This was one of the themes of Julian Zelizer's reply to a reviewer, Barry Blechman, in a recent issue of the Journal of Policy History. Without having read the book at issue, Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security—From World War II to the War on Terrorism (New York: Basic Books, 2008), I [read post]
5 Oct 2010, 2:00 am
Over at the Intellectual History Blog, David Sehat (Georgia State) is posting a series of essays on “The Myth of American Religious Freedom: Religion, Morality, and Law.” They are based on material from his forthcoming book. Here are the opening paragraphs of Sehat's first essay: Social conservatives have been in the news in recent days, calling upon the Republican Party not to forget [read post]
20 Jan 2011, 11:08 am
For those interested in some of the questions about international history that I raised in an earlier post, the January issue of Common-place features an article by Brian Connolly calling for critical analysis of transnationality in the history of early America. In, “Intimate Atlantics” Connolly asks: “If we turn to the transnational as a critical frame in order to expose the fragility of the [read post]
30 Sep 2010, 5:32 am
Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College Law School, has posted Expounding the Law, which also appears in George Washington Law Review 78 (2010). Here is the abstract:Written as a comment on Philip Hamburger's book, Law and Judicial Duty, this essay explains why the history of judicial review remains a difficult area for scholarship. American judicial tradition espoused that judges had an obligation to [read post]
26 May 2010, 2:00 am
Conversations about the legal implications of the BP oil spill, combined with Dan's post on environmental law aficionado Richard Lazarus, prompted me to wonder about the subfield of environmental legal history. I was aware of James Willard Hurst's famous study of the Wisconsin lumber industry (including its environmental consequences), and I had read some historical work on riparian rights and [read post]
3 Jun 2010, 2:00 am
The oil keeps coming, and so does the environmental legal history. After my post on this subfield, a few readers called my attention to more recent work in this area.Volume III of the Cambridge History of Law in America (2008) includes a chapter on "Law and the Environment" by Betsy Mendelsohn (University of Maryland). Here's the first paragraph:At first glance, 'environmental law' might seem, [read post]
12 Mar 2010, 10:47 pm
Mark Levin, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai'i at Ma-noa, has posted Continuities of Legal Consciousness: Professor John Haley’s Writings On Twelve Hundred Years of Japanese Legal History. Here’s the abstract:In Authority Without Power: Law and the Japanese Paradox, Professor John Haley stated, “One cannot understand the present without an appreciation of the past and the [read post]
11 Jun 2010, 2:00 am
In honor of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, which begins today, I've pulled together some scholarship on the legal history of South Africa. It's an exciting area, and there seems to be room for much more work.One of the major books in the field is The Making of South African Legal Culture, 1902-1936: Fear, Favour, and Prejudice (2001), by Martin Chanock (La Trobe University, Victoria). Coverage includes [read post]
4 Jul 2012, 1:00 am
image creditThe latest issues of the American Historical Review contain material worth spotlighting here (full content is for subscribers only).The June 2012 issue features a forum on "Historiographic 'Turns' in Critical Perspective."Book reviews include:Miles Ogborn on Lauren Benton, A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400-1900 (Cambridge University Press).Nandini Chatterjee on Mithi Mukherjee, ed., India in the Shadows of Empire: A Legal and Political History… [read post]
24 May 2011, 4:00 am
Last summer, we noted the exciting work coming from the intersection of legal history and the history of sexuality (here and here). In the Spring issue of Law & Social Inquiry, Felicia Kornbluh (University of Vermont) brings the field together under the banner of "queer legal history." Her essay reviews recent work from Margot Canaday, Marc Stein, and Sarah Barringer Gordon, as well as slightly [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 2:17 pm
Nancy R. Hoffman and Robin C. McGinnis, 2007-2008 Legislative Review, 15 Animal Law 1 (2010) Rita D. Yonkers, Legislative Review Editor Nancy R. Hoffman & Robin C. McGinnis, Authors (abstract from Animal Law) [read post]
10 Jan 2013, 10:00 am
Samuel T. Morison, Office of the Chief Defense Counsel, U.S. Department of Defense, has posted this review of Allan A. Ryan’s Yamashita’s Ghost: War Crimes, MacArthur’s Justice, and Command Accountability (University Press of Kansas, 2012), which is forthcoming in Law and Politics Book Review (January 2013). [read post]
27 Apr 2012, 12:52 pm
Below is a graph illustrating the number of citations to selected antitrust publications in federal courts from 2003 – 2011. The full study is available on the Antitrust Source website and updates previous data collected by Jonathan Baker on behalf of the Antitrust Law Journal Editorial Board.
The data and study – including a list of articles and opinions in which they are cited – are available at the Antitrust Source (under Supplementary Materials) and Antitrust Law Journal.
Disclosure:… [read post]