Publications

The Society sponsors a quarterly journal, the Law and History Review, and a book series, Studies in Legal History.

Studies in Legal History

Book Series

The series aims to publish the highest quality work in legal history by both junior and senior scholars. Our goal is to produce monographs that take a variety of methodological and theoretical approaches, but always with respect for historical and legal change. The series is dedicated to the understanding of law as both a product of and contributor to history.

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Law and History Review

Quarterly Journal

Law and History Review (LHR), America's leading legal history journal, encompasses American, European, and ancient legal history issues. The journal's purpose is to further research in the fields of the social history of law and the history of legal ideas and institutions. LHR features articles, essays, commentaries by international authorities, and reviews of important books on legal history.

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The Latest from The Docket

  • Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: An Interview with Anna O. Law
    06.24.26

    Anna O. Law is an associate professor of political science and the Herbert Kurz Chair of Constitutional Rights at CUNY Brooklyn College. Editor’s Note: In March 2026, Oxford University Press published Anna O. Law’s long-awaited book Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship. It sold out […]

  • An interview with Jürgen Dinkel
    12.29.25

    Editor’s Note: Jürgen Dinkel’s article, “‘The Rich Uncle from America’: Transnational Inheritance Transfers between the United States, Germany, and Russia, 1840s–1980s,” appeared in Law and History Review 43, no. 3 (August 2025). Dr. Dinkel’s second book, All Remains in the Family: […]

Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press publishes the Law and History Review and Studies in Legal History.