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....
Daniel J. Sharfstein, Vanderbilt Law School, is publishing Brown, Massive Resistance, and the Lawyer’s View: A Nashville Story in volume 74 of the Vandervilt Law Review (2021). Here is the abstract. This Essay explores...
Rosemarie Zagarri, George Mason University Department of History, is publishing The Historian’s Case Against the Independent State Legislature Theory in the Boston College Law Review (2023). Here is the abstract. This Essay explores historical...
Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui, Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, and Mohd Imran, Faculty of Shariah and Law, Villa College, have published Towards Remedying The Transcivilizational Neglect: Revisiting The Story of The Spanish...
From The Conversation: A brief history of the mortgage, from its roots in ancient Rome to the English ‘dead pledge’ and its rebirth in America. The article says in part: The term dates...
Bernard M. Levinson, University of Minnesota, has published Gerhard von Rad’s Struggle against the Nazification of the Old Testament in The Betrayal of the Humanities: The University during the Third Reich 154-204 (Bernard M....
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