Desiree Desierto, Jacob Hall, and Mark Koyama, all of the George Maxon University Department of Economics, have published Magna Carta. Here is the abstract. Magna Carta, a pivotal moment in the emergence of constitutional...
Assaf Likhovski, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, is publishing Jurisprudence and Nationalism in the British Empire in the Early Twentieth Century: India, Egypt, and Palestine Compared in The English Historical Review. Here is...
Are you interested in the history of elections and politics? If so, check out the website Eighteenth-Century Political Participation & Electoral Culture, which collects information about English parliamentary elections, 1695-1832. Hat tip Professor Elaine...
Irving Robert Kaufman’s American Dream A Review of Martin J. Siegel’s Judgment and Mercy (Cornell University Press, 2023) Seohye Kwon* Most people would remember Irving Robert Kaufman for his infamous judgment of the...
Greg Taylor, University of Adelaide, School of Law; University of Marburg; RMIT University, Graduate School of Business and Law, ha published Love the sinner: The crime of attempted suicide in late 19th century Australia...
Newly published: Richard Moreno, Frontier Fake News: Nevada’s Sagebrush Humorists and Hoaxsters (University of Nevada Press, 2023). Here from the publisher’s website is a description of the book’s contents. When readers see the names...
Simon Stern, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, is publishing Mansfield, Burrow, and the Reformulation of the Legal Decision in British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century (Melissa Ganz, ed., Cambridge University...
For interesting legal history, check out Ruth Cannon’s History of the Four Courts, Ireland, here. Her most recent post: The Trial of Luke Dillon for the Rape and Seduction of Anne Frizell, 1831.
Samuel Moyn, Yale University, and Rephael Stern, NYU Law; Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, have published To Save Democracy from Juristocracy: J.B. Thayer and the Tragic Origins of Constitutional Theory. Here is...
Peter Grajzl, Washington and Lee University, Department of Economics; CESifo, and Peter Murrell, University of Maryland, Department of Economics, have published Did Caselaw Foster England’s Economic Development During the Industrial Revolution? Data and Evidence....
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