Legal History examines events of the past that pertain to all facets of the law, including analysis of particular laws, legal institutions, individuals who operate in the legal system, and the effect of law on society.
Anna di Robilant
Professor Anna di Robilant is a property law scholar trained in both Europe and the United States. She writes and teaches in the areas of property law, property theory, legal history, and comparative law. Professor di Robilant has published extensively in both peer-reviewed and student-edited journals, including the Vanderbilt Law Review, the American Journal of […]
Pnina Lahav
During the course of her legal career, Pnina Lahav has published nearly 50 journal articles and three books, including the critically acclaimed Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century. Winner of Israel’s Seltner Award (1998) and the Gratz College Centennial Book Award (1998), she is presently completing a biography of Israel’s fourth […]
Gerald F. Leonard
Gerald Leonard is a leading historian of American constitutionalism. He is the author of two books that helped launch and extend the “constitutional politics,” or “popular constitutionalism,” approach to American constitutional history: The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders’ Constitution, 1780s-1830s (Cambridge University Press, 2019) (with Saul Cornell), and The Invention of Party […]
Ian C. Pilarczyk
Ian C. Pilarczyk is owner and managing member of Pilarczyk LLC, d/b/a Aussie Pet Mobile Arlington. He also serves as a lecturer in the Banking and Financial Law Program, teaching Introduction to the American Legal System. Dr. Pilarczyk was Director of Executive, Online and Special Initiatives at Boston University School of Law from 2017-2020. Prior […]
David J. Seipp
Though born and raised in the heartland of America—Dubuque, Iowa—noted legal historian and property law teacher David Seipp often looks across the Atlantic for inspiration in his legal research. Among his scholarly interests are the roles of judges, lawyers and jurors in the development of medieval English common law, the persistence and evolution of basic […]
Robert L. Tsai
Robert L. Tsai is Professor of Law and Harry Elwood Warren Memorial Scholar at Boston University School of Law, where he teaches courses in constitutional law, presidential leadership, and individual rights. Professor Tsai has been named a ’24-’25 Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, where […]