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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Our interests cover several different jurisdictions, from Scotland to Australia, but we are also very conscious of our location in a city with its own important place in the history of law. While ...

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 ...

Legal and constitutional history is studied by historians and by lawyers, but students often consider it a difficult, “dry” branch of the discipline. Yet it is always important to understand the ...

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.