Category Archives: Legal History

18th C. Studies – Copyright, Arts, Human Rights – San Antonio, TX

The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, “an interdisciplinary group dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in all aspects of the period . . . from the later seventeenth through the…

Medieval Studies, Legal History Panel – Kalamazoo, MI

Western Michigan University presents the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies takes place May 10-13, 2012. The deadline for the general call for papers is Sept. 15, 2011. The conference…

Call for Papers – New Deadline: Transatlantic Slave Trade

Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts seeks submissions for an issue (Winter 2012) on “500 Years Later: Reverberations of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.” The new submission deadline is July 6, 2011. There…

Alfred Dreyfus and Leo Frank Cases – Paris, France

Touro Law announces a three-day conference, Persecution Through Prosecution: Alfred Dreyfus, Leo Frank and the Infernal Machine, in Paris, France, July 5-7, 2011. The Conference will explore parallels between the…

Race, Radicalism, Repression on Pacific Coast – Seattle, WA

The Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest and the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington present Race, Radicalism, and Repression on the Pacific…

Race, Law, and History – Ann Arbor, MI

Michigan Law‘s Program in Race, Law & History hosted “We Must First Take Account”: A Conference on Race, Law, and History in the Americas April 1-2, 2011. The final program…

Landmark Cases in Equity Law – London

University College of London Faculty of Laws hosts the Society of Legal Scholars Annual Seminar Landmark Cases in Equity Law April 8-9, 2011 in London, England. sr

What If? Counterfactuals in Constitutional History – Indianapolis, IN

The 2011 Indiana Law Review symposium is What If? Counterfactuals in Constitutional History. It will take place April 1, 2011.   mw

Slavery’s Capitalism – Providence, RI, and Cambridge, MA

Brown University and Harvard University present Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development, April 7-9, 2011. The conference will be at Brown on April 7-8 and at Harvard…

Legal History, Rare Books Writing Competition

The Legal History and Rare Books Section (LH&RB) of the American Association of Law Libraries, in cooperation with Cengage Learning, announces the third annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition….