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 ...

February is Black History Month. In previous years, we have honored Black History Month by highlighting important African American legal figures, many of whom were the first in their respective ...

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 ...

Before 1900, was there a legal history in America of prohibiting particular types of arms? Yes, but it is very short. The far more common policy for controversial arms, such as Bowie knives or ...

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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 ...

CHICO — Sergio Garcia, the first lawyer in America to obtain a law license without legal status, is quick to point out former President Barack Obama’s administration’s firm stance on immigration.