In the fall of 2025, the Boston College Law School Legal History Roundtable begins its 24th successful year. The Roundtable draws on Boston College Law School’s and Boston College’s strength and ...

The Saint Louis University Center for Religious and Legal History is a research center devoted to advancing the study of the historical relationships between religion and law. Regardless of confession ...

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 ...

A few weeks ago, I joined several legal historians in filing an amicus brief about the Second Amendment right to carry arms; the case is Wrenn v. District of Columbia, currently before the D.C.

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 ...

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 ...

You’ll start your first semester in the School of Law, where you'll gain hands-on, professional experience while taking courses such as Criminal Law; Civil Procedure and Law; and Legislation and ...

In the years leading up to the Law-Medicine Center’s founding in 1953, the Cleveland city morgue was nothing like the crisp white laboratory setting of today. Built in 1895, it had no scientific ...

Legal history is important because it explains why we do things the way we do. It also confirms that many legal issues and challenges dealt with by lawyers over the centuries have not changed much. We ...

The Law of the Twelve Tables found in the Collection of Bibliothèque Nationale de France.Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images The rule of law, democracy and human rights: these are the ...