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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In August, Prof. Jonathon Booth will join the Colorado Law faculty as Associate Professor. Booth is a historian of democracy, race, law, and policing in the United States. He teaches courses including ...