For more than half a century, federal law recognized the concept of racial vote dilution. Members of a racial group experience this condition when voting is rac

How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People. Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan on how the Supreme Court seized the power it now wields.

States provide opportunities to explore unresolved legal issues and are rich ground for advancing scholarship — and demonstrating your analytic skills.

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A conservative group had tried to force the University of Michigan to hand over messages from a law professor who worked on “climate superfund” bills.

Join First America, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, Red Media, and the Lindy Waters III Foundation for an evening celebrating Indigenous futurisms, storytelling, and t...

Newly discovered letters by John Dickinson shed light on his opposition to American independence.

School’s out, and it is time to try to catch up with all the work that has come out over the course of the past few months. This quarterly bibliography includes recent and forthcoming work th…

This is the 15,000th post on Legal History Blog.  No less than at its founding by Mary Dudziak almost twenty years ago, it remains committe...

By standard accounts, there are fifty-four constitutions across the federal, state, and territorial governments of the United States. But in fact, there are 230 other governmental constitutions that c...

By standard accounts, there are fifty-four constitutions across the federal, state, and territorial governments of the United States. But in fact, there are 230 other governmental constitutions that currently govern peoples and territories within the United States. These constitutions not only flow from a sovereignty that existed prior to the United States but also came out of a legal movement that asserted its independence from both the U.S. Constitution and state constitutions. This Article tells the story of these constitutions — the constitutions of Native nations.

When courts recognize Indigenous sovereignty or jurisdiction over contested lands, governments and corporations often respond with warnings of potential economic chaos. These claims of uncertainty are...