Probably not the most in-demand use, but a really cool one. And maybe something that makes originalism easier?

Bowie knives are back in constitutional law news these days, after a very long absence. The U.S. Supreme Court's Bruen decision instructs lower courts to look to U.S. legal history to see what sorts ...

Bruce H. Mann is the Carl F. Schipper, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He studies legal history, with a focus on the intersections among legal, economic, and social change in the 17th and ...

Kenneth W. Mack has spent his career reshaping the conversation around civil rights and legal history, but his path to becoming one of the nation's foremost scholars in the field wasn’t a conventional ...

This semester, Boston College is hosting the Boston-Area Legal History Colloquium, a distinctive forum where budding legal historians can receive feedback on works-in-progress—an important step for ...

In August, Prof. Jonathon Booth will join the Colorado Law faculty as Associate Professor. Booth is a historian of democracy, race, law, and policing in the United States. He teaches courses including ...

At the end of 2025, the federal estate and gift tax exemption will dramatically decrease unless Congress affirmatively passes a law saying otherwise. This event is the “sunsetting” of a 2018 federal ...