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.

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...

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One of the most valuable aspects of Jack Balkin’s new book, in my view, is the seriousness and attention it gives to the concept of constitutional memory. Alongside recent work by Aziz Rana and Reva S...

Introduction Writing in the name of the “People of the United States,” white men drafted the U.S. Constitution in 1787. The following year, white men, chosen by an almost exclusively white, male, prop...

In 1823, as the first American missionaries arrived in Hawai'i, the archipelago was experiencing a profound transformation in its rule, as oral law that had ...

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...