Month: February 2013

Thursday is going to be a big day for legal history -- there's the Harvard Journal of Gender and Law's discussion of congressional power and sex equality and Tera Hunter's ...

Further to the recent discussion of applied legal history, I see that Patricia Seith has posted "Congressional Power to Effect Sex Equality" on ssrn.  Cribbing now from her abstract: From…

The twenty-fifth annual meeting of the Southern Intellectual History Circle will take place February 21-23, 2013, at Mercer University.  The program is below the fold. Thursday, February 215:00 pm Woodruff House, Keynote ...

By GABRIELLE LEVY, UPI.com The Canadian Parliament tackled the critical issue of an impending zombie invasion from America a day after a hoaxer hacked into a Montana television broadcast to…

Continuing on the talk of "applied legal history" here, over at the legal history blog by Karen Tani (and here), and in the Law and History Review, (download it now if…

Some of my students recently made me aware of a practice by employers of asking job applicants to disclose Facebook passwords and usernames, or to actually log in to their…

Last summer Karen Tani over at legal history blog (and here) and I had a couple of posts (and here) about the idea of "applied legal history" -- that is, legal history…

I was riding on a SEPTA trolley the other day and a very large version of this poster was hung directly behind the driver.  My first thought wasn't that this…

Here's the latest on the St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project, which contains a lot of freedom suits, that are now available on-line at Washington University's library.  The video features…

We're happy to post academic announcements from law schools seeking visitors for all or part of the 2013-14 academic year.  Send the announcements to any of us here in the…