Legal History on the Web: Syllabi

Syllabi

Please note—syllabi posted to the web have an especially notable tendency toward broken links; when that happens, one can often find later iterations of courses by the same professor with a little web-searching

United States and Canadian Legal History

Urban Legal History: The Development of New Haven, Robert Ellickson, Yale Law School, 1998
Legalization of American Indians, Peter d’Errico, University of Massachusetts, 2001
United States Constitutional History, Clayton Cramer, Boise State University, 2003
Asian Americans and the Law, Robert S. Chang, University of Seattle, 2003
Law and Society in US History, Christopher Capozzola, MIT, 2003
US Women’s Legal History, Barbara Welke, University of Minnesota, 2003
Readings in American Legal History, William Novak, NYU Law School, 2004
Science and Religion in American Legal History, Cecelia Watson & Adam Shapiro, University of Chicago (n.d. 2004 or later)
Law and American History, Cynthia Cumfer, Reed College, 2004
Vice, Crime, and American Law, Wade Maki, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, 2005
American Legal History, Kris Kobach, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City Law School, 2005
American Constitutional History since 1876, John Semonche, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2006
American Legal History, Elizabeth Dale, University of Florida Law School and History Department, 2006
Special Problems in Modern American Legal History Reading Seminar, Arthur F. McEvoy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007
American Legal History—The Long Nineteenth Century, Rachel Ponce, 2007
Law in American History, John Semonche, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2007, 2008
Representations of Law in American Film, Ticien Sassoubre, University of California-Berkeley, 2008
Twentieth-Century American Legal and Constitutional History, Harry Scheiber, University of California-Berkeley, 2009
American Legal History, Thomas Russell, University of Denver College of Law, 2009
American Legal History, Anders Walker, Saint Louis University, 2012
Canadian Legal History, Charles Paul Hoffman, McGill University, 2013
Legal Issues in Environmental History, Adam Wolkoff, NJIT (2013)
The American Journal of Legal History, “Teaching Legal History in U.S. Law Schools: A Symposium”, 2013
American Legal History to the 1860s, Richard Keyser, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014
American Legal History Since 1860, Richard Keyser, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014
U.S. Constitutional and Legal History (to 1877), Steve Belko, University of Western Florida, 2014
American Legal History, Matthew Lindsay, University of Baltimore, 2015
English Origins of American Law, Franklyn P. Salimbene, Bentley University, 2017
American Legal History II, Stuart Gold, Rutgers University, 2017
Institute for Constitutional History Syllabi repository

European Legal History

English Legal History, Robert Palmer, University of Houston Law Center, (n.d.)
Comparative European Legal History, Lunds Universitet, 2007
European Legal History, Charles McClain, University of California-Berkeley, 2011
History of Punishment, David Lieberman, University of California-Berkeley, 2013
European Legal Traditions, Sebastian Golla, Freie Universitat Berlin, 2017 or later
Law & Empire in Modern Europe, James Loeffler, University of Virginia, 2017
Constitutional and Legal History of Medieval England, Charles Donahue, Harvard 2018
Constitutional and Legal History of Medieval Continental Europe, Charles Donahue, Harvard 2020
Legal History: Continental History, Charles Donahue, Harvard 2020

Roman and Ancient Law

History of Canon Law, Ken Pennington, The Catholic University of America (n.d.)
Philosophy and Law in Ancient Athens, Kinch Hoekstra, University of California-Berkeley, 2010

Non-Anglo American/European Legal History

Women and Gender in Islamic Law, Zeinab Abul-Magd, Oberlin College, 2010
Israeli Legal History, Assaf Likhovski, UCLA School of Law, 2010
African Law, Andrew Novak, American University, 2012
Law, Custom, and Rights: The Roots of Pluralism in Modern Africa, Elizabeth Thornberry, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 2013
Law and Colonialism, Mitra Sharafi, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2013
Law and Society in East Asia, Tom Ginsburg, University of Chicago, 2013
Legal Pluralism, Mitra Sharafi, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014
The Jewish Law Syllabus Project, Samuel J. Levine, Jewish Law Institute, Touro College
Collection of syllabi on Jewish religious law.

Global or Comparative Legal History

Comparative Constitutional Law, Elizabeth Dale, University of Florida, 2003
International Law from 1870: History and Theory, Martti Koskenniemi, NYU Law School, 2004
Environmental Legal History, Douglas Harris, University of British Columbia Law School, 2005
Foundations of Modern Law, Ken Pennington, Syracuse University, (n.d.)
Readings in Legal History, 1400-Present, Edward Balleisen, Duke University, 2006
History of the Common Law, William A. Percy III, 2006
History of Punishment, Karl Shoemaker, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2011
Law and Revolution, Malick Ghachem, University of Maine Law School, 2012
Property in History and Law, Douglas C. Harris, University of British Columbia Law School (2012 or after)
The Law in Slavery and Freedom: From the Historical to the Contemporary, Rebecca Scott, University of Michigan, 2016
Syllabi and Assignments, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Compendium of extensive links to syllabi, some engaging with issues of international law.