Here’s a roundup of all of our Law and History posts.
Ancient Law and Legal Systems
- Antoninus Pius: Rule, Accomplishments, and Legacy
- Hadrian: Life, Accomplishments, and Death of One of the Best Roman EmperorsHadrian: Life, Accomplishments, and Death of One of the Best Roman Emperors
- Roman Emperor Macrinus
- Roman Women: Mothers, Daughters, Priestesses, and Augustas
- The Laws of War in Ancient Greece
- The Twelve Tables: The Foundation of Roman Law
- Themis: Titan Goddess of Divine Law and Order
Book Reviews
- Book Review: Europe, Early Modern and Modern
- Book Review: Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case Against Brown v. Board of Education
- Book Review: The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South
Civil Rights and Race Law
- Brown over “Other White”: Mexican Americans’ Legal Arguments and Litigation Strategy in School Desegregation Lawsuits
- Ruby Bridges: A Black Girl Who Desegregated Her School
- The Civil Rights Movement
- Travelers, Strangers, and Jim Crow: Law, Public Accommodations, and Civil Rights in America
Constitutional Law
- Brandeis and the Progressive Constitution: Erie, the Judicial Power, and the Politics of the Federal Courts in Twentieth-Century America
- Charles Evans Hughes and the Strange Death of Liberal America
- Free Speech: The History of our First Amendment Right
- The Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the New Deal
- The Second Amendment: A Missing Transatlantic Context for the Historical Meaning of “the Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms”
Corporate and Labor Law
- Flemming v. Nestor: Anticommunism, the Welfare State, and the Making of “New Property”
- Shareholder and Director Liability for Unpaid Workers’ Wages in Canada: From Condition of Granting Limited Liability to Exceptional Remedy
The Blue Eagle at Work: Reclaiming Democratic Rights in the American Workplace
Criminal Law and Justice
- Crimes Against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City
- English Criminal Justice Administration, 1650–1850: A Historiographic Essay
- The Historical Analysis of Criminal Codes
Family and Marriage Law
- Control over Marriage in England and Wales, 1753–1823: The Clandestine Marriages Act of 1753 in Context
- De Manneville v. De Manneville: Rethinking the Birth of Custody Law under Patriarchy
- The History of Divorce Law in the USA
- The History Of Family Law In Australia
- The History of Hardwicke’s Marriage Act of 1753
General Legal History
- Beyond Tannenbaum
- Entangled Histories: Borderland Historiographies in New Clothes?
- Fraternity and Fratricide in Late Imperial China
- HC Journal
- Household Interests: Property, Marriage Strategies, and Family Dynamics in Ancient Athens
- How the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party Lost Its Way
- Imperial Politics and English Law: The Many Contexts of Somerset
- Neighbors, Courts, and Kings: Reflections on Michael Macnair’s Vicini
- Reassessing Hurst: A Transatlantic Perspective
- Revisiting the Rights of Man: Georg Jellinek on Rights and the State
- Rule of Law: The Jurisprudence of Liberty in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- Sir Moses Montefiore: The Forgotten Legend of the 19th Century
- Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate over Science and Religion
- The Career of Puritan Jurisprudence
- The Emergence of Professional Law in the Long Twelfth Century
- The Evolution, Growth, and History of Human Rights
- The History of Slavery in the United States of America
- The Langdell Problem: Historicizing the Century of Historiography, 1906–2000s
- The Mind of a Moral Agent: Scottish Common Sense and the Problem of Responsibility in Nineteenth-Century American Law
- The Strange Career of the Illegal Alien: Immigration Restriction and Deportation Policy in the United States, 1921-1965
- Webbing the Pacific—Teaching an Intercontinental Legal History Course
- Willard Hurst and the Administrative State: From Williams to Wisconsin
Human Rights and Citizenship
- Making Mexico: Legal Nationality, Chinese Race, and the 1930 Population Census
- Meanings of Citizenship in the U.S. Empire: Puerto Rico, Isabel Gonzalez, and the Supreme Court, 1898 to 1905
- TAXATION AND CITIZENSHIP
- The Instruction of Great Catastrophe: Truth Commissions, National History, and State Formation in Argentina, Chile, and Guatemala
Immigration Law
International and Comparative Law
- A “Jewish State . . . to Be Known as the State of Israel”: Notes on Israeli Legal Historiography
- Gloria’s Story: Adulterous Concubinage and the Law in Twentieth-Century Guatemala
- Law, Honor, and Impunity in Spanish America: The Debate over Dueling, 1870–1920
Jury Systems and Legal Philosophy
Legal Education and Pedagogy
- Introduction: Asian Americans and Educational History
- The 6 Best Bar Prep Courses in 2025
- The Best LSAT Prep Courses: Reviewed and Compared for 2025
- The Best LSAT Tutors of 2025: A Comprehensive List
- The Winchester Law School, 1824–1831
- “Warn Students That I Entertain Heretical Opinions, Which They Are Not to Take as Law”: The Inception of Case Method Teaching in the Classrooms of the Early C. C. Langdell, 1870-1883
Legal Procedure and Judicial History
- Collisions, Prohibitions, and the Admiralty Court in Seventeenth-Century London
- Politics and Procedure in the Trial of Charles I
- Preparing for Fusion: Reforming the Nineteenth-Century Court of Chancery, Part II
- The Origin and Early History of the Writs of Entry
Media, Speech, and Protest Law
Property and Economic Law
- Book Review: The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South
- Knowing Industrial Pollution: Nuisance Law and the Power of Tradition in a Time of Rapid Economic Change, 1840–1864
- The Brief: A Short Story on English Legal Codification
- Why Terra Nullius? Anthropology and Property Law in Early Australia