Law and History Review

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(The TQCC of Law and History Review is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
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Pardoning Infanticide in Late Medieval France6
Discerning a Dignitary Offense: The Concept of Equal “Public Rights” during Reconstruction6
Racializing Mercy: Capital Punishment and Race in Twentieth-Century England and Wales3
Voting Trusts and Antitrust: Rethinking the Role of Shareholder Litigation in Public Regulation, from the 1880s to the 1930s3
Creating a Common Law of Slavery for England and its New World Empire3
Using Topic-Modeling in Legal History, with an Application to Pre-Industrial English Case Law on Finance3
The Measure of Her Actions: A Quantitative Assessment of Anglo-Jewish Women's Litigation at the Exchequer of the Jews, 1219–812
Policing Jim Crow America: Enforcers’ Agency and Structural Transformations2
Slavery, Law, and Race in England and its New World Empire2
Extraterritoriality and Legal Belonging in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean2
The Edicts of the Praetors: Law, Time, and Revolution in Ancient Rome1
Turning a Blind Eye: Infanticide and Missing Babies in Seventeenth-Century Geneva1
“Let the Commander Respond”: The Paradox of Obedience in the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces – CORRIGENDUM1
The Enigma of a Taiping Fugitive: The Illusion of Justice and the “Political Offence Exception” in Extradition from Hong Kong1
Garland's Million; or, the Tragedy and Triumph of Legal History: American Society for Legal History Plenary Lecture, New Orleans, 20211
Response to Rebecca Scott's “Discerning a Dignitary Offense”1
Rebellion, Sovereignty, and Islamic Law in the Ottoman Age of Revolutions1
The Drafting of the Constitution of the Union of Burma in 1947: Dominion Status, Indo–Burmese Relations, and the Irish Example1
Wool Smuggling and the Royal Government in England, c.1337–63: Law Enforcement and the Moral Economy in the Late Middle Ages1
The Contradictions of Reform: Prosecuting Infant Murder in the Nineteenth-Century United States1
“A New Ethnology”: The Legal Expansion of Whiteness under Early Jim Crow1
Bengal Regulation 10 of 1804 and Martial Law in British Colonial India1
Public Rights1
BeyondSomerset?: Slavery and the Temporality of Law1
Alison C. Carey, Pamela Block, and Richard K. Scotch, Allies and Obstacles: Disability Activism and Parents of Children with Disabilities. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2020. Pp. 334. $109.501
A “Practically American” Canadian Woman Confronts a United States Citizen-Only Hiring Law: Katharine Short and the California Alien Teachers Controversy of 19151
Policing Sati: Law, Order, and Spectacle in Postcolonial India1
Maternity and Morality in Puebla's Nineteenth-Century Infanticide Trials1
Garland's Million; or, the Tragedy and Triumph of Legal History: American Society for Legal History Plenary Lecture, New Orleans, 2021 – CORRIGENDUM0
A New Foundation for Freedom of Movement in an Age of Sovereign Control: The Liberal Jurisprudence of August Wilhelm Heffter0
Doreen Lustig, Veiled Power: International Law and the Private Corporation, 1886–1981. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 256. £80.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780198822097).0
The Probate Regime: Enchanted Bureaucracy, Islamic Law, and the Capital of Orphans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt0
Sir John Baker, English Law Under Two Elizabeths: The Late Tudor Legal World and the Present, The Hamlyn Lectures 2019. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xxxv, 213. $89.99 hardcover (IS0
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Sara M. Butler, Pain, Penance, and Protest: Peine Forte et Dure in Medieval England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xiv, 474. $135.00 hardcover (ISBN 9781316512388).0
Inge Van Hulle, Britain and International Law in West Africa: The Practice of Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 320. $99.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780198869863).0
Will Slauter, Who Owns the News? A History of Copyright, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. Pp. xii, 352. $30.00 paperback (ISBN 9781503607712).0
Written Constitutionalism, Past and Present0
Re-Reading Morant Bay: Protest, Inquiry, and Colonial Rule0
Edward A. Purcell, Antonin Scalia and American Constitutionalism: The Historical Significance of a Judicial Icon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 310. $34.95 hardcover (ISBN 97801975087630
Beyond “Death Do Us Part”: Spousal Intestate Succession in Nineteenth-Century Hispanic America0
Legal Pluralism's Other: Mythologizing Modern Law0
Genuine Concern for Animals in England's Nineteenth-Century Animal Protection Movement: The Case Against Reductionist Interpretations0
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“Unlawful Intimacy”: Mixed-Race Families, Miscegenation Law, and the Legal Culture of Progressive Era Mississippi0
Macabe Keliher, The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. Pp. 288. $80.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780520300293).0
From Reciprocity to Territoriality: Extradition, the Opium War, and the Idea of British Sovereignty in Hong Kong, 1842–440
Legal Pluralism from History to Theory and Back: Otto von Gierke, Santi Romano, and Francesco Calasso on Medieval Institutions0
Bronach C. Kane, Popular Memory and Gender in Medieval England: Men, Women, and Testimony in the Church Courts, c.1200–1500. Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 2019. Pp. vii, 301. $99.00 hardcover (IS0
Tibor Várady, People in Spite of History: Stories Found in an Attorney Archive in the Banat Region, translated by János Boris, Owen Good, and Péter Balikó Lengyel. Budapest: Central European Universit0
Hierarchical Inclusion: The Untold History of Israel's Affirmative Action for Arab Citizens (1948–68)0
Hanging Matters: Petty Theft, Sentence of Death, and a Lost Statute of Edward I0
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An Instrument of Military Power: The Development and Evolution of Japanese Martial Law in Occupied Territories, 1894–19450
Susan Bartie, Free Hands and Minds: Pioneering Australian Legal Scholars. Oxford: Hart, 2019. Pp. 323. $94.00 hardcover (ISBN 8791509922611).0
Andrew Ventimiglia, Copyrighting God: Ownership of the Sacred in American Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. viii + 247. $115.00 hardcover (ISBN 9781108420518); $34.99 paper (I0
Christopher Casey, Nationals Abroad: Globalization, Individual Rights, and the Making of Modern International Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 316. $39.99 cloth (ISBN 9781108784040
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Henrietta Harrison, The Perils of Interpreting. The Extraordinary Lives of Two Interpreters between Qing China and the British Empire Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 312. $29.95 hardc0
Oceanic Mobility and the Empire of the Pass System0
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E. Claire Cage, The Science of Proof: Forensic Medicine in Modern France Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. x, 237. $110 hardcover (ISBN 9781009198332). doi:10.1017/97810091983560
Creating Law through Regulating Intimacy: The Case of Slave Marriage in Nineteenth-Century New York and the United States0
Timo Schaefer, Liberalism as Utopia: The Rise and Fall of Legal Rule in Post-Colonial Mexico, 1820-1900. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 243. $105.00 hardcover (ISBN 9781107190733); $20
Nepal's Constitutional Foundations between Revolution and Cold War (1950–60)0
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Michael Lobban, Imperial Incarceration: Detention without Trial in the Making of British Colonial Africa Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xii, 450. $120.00 hardcover (ISBN 978130
Killing in the Name Of? Capital Punishment in Colonial and Postcolonial India0
Free Black Witnesses in the Antebellum Upper South0
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Forum: Holly Brewer's “Creating a Common Law of Slavery for England and its New World Empire”—Introduction0
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The Politics of Libel: Thomas Erskine, Freedom of the Press, and Transatlantic Legal Culture, c. 1780–18300
The Carried-Off and the Constitution: How British Harboring of Fugitives from American Slavery Led to the Constitution of 17870
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A New Language of Rule: Alwar's Administrative Experiment, c. 1838–580
Disobedient Children, Hybrid Filiality: Negotiating Parent–Child Relations in Local Legal System in Republican China, 1911–19490
Abolitionist Decrees in Ethiopia: The Evolution of Anti-Slavery Legal Strategies from Menilek to Haile Selassie, 1889–19420
Ken I. Kersch, Conservatives and the Constitution: Imagining Constitutional Restoration in the Heyday of American Liberalism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xviii + 407. $84.99 hardco0
Lisa Ford, The King's Peace: Law and Order in the British Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. Pp. 336. $35.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780674249073).0
Why did Latin America Lose Faith in the Law?0
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Yael Berda, Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British Empire Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 278. Hardcover $91.980
“Let the Commander Respond”: The Paradox of Obedience in the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces0
Zachary Chitwood, Byzantine Legal Culture and the Roman Legal Tradition, 867–1056. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. 236. $105.00 hardcover (ISBN 9781316861547).0
Introduction: Rethinking the Policing of Homosexuality in Modern America0
Lisa Ford, The King's Peace: Law and Order in the British Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. Pp. 336. $35.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780674249073).0
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Introduction: Rethinking the Criminalization of Childbirth: Infanticide in Premodern Europe and the Modern Americas0
Stephan Dusil, Wissensordnungen des Rechts im Wandel: Päpstlicher Jurisdiktionsprimat und Zölibat zwischen 1000 und 1215. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 629. €135.00 hardcover (ISBN 0
Stefan Kirmse, The Lawful Empire: Legal Change and Cultural Diversity in late Tsarist Russia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 310. $99.99 hardcover (ISBN 9781108499439).0
Wolfgang P. Müller, Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215–1517 Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. viii, 270. $99.99 hardcover (ISBN-13: 978-1108845427). doi:10
Mergers and Legal Fictions: Coverture and Intermarried Women in India0
The Stuff of Legal History0
Rebellion, Sovereignty, and Islamic Law in the Ottoman Age of Revolutions – CORRIGENDUM0
R.W. Kostal, Laying Down the Law: The American Legal Revolutions in Occupied Germany and Japan, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp 472. $55.00 cloth (ISBN 9780674052413).0
Yue Du, State and Family in China: Filial Piety and Its Modern Reform Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 312. Hardcover £ 75.00 (ISBN: 9781108838351). doi:10.1017/97811089744790
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Charlene M. Eska, A Raven's Battle-Cry: The Limits of Judgment in the Medieval Irish Legal Tract Anfuigell. Leiden: Brill, 2019. Pp. xiv + 338. $119.00 hardcover (ISBN 9789004391987)0
Policing, Profits, and the Rise of Immigration Detention in New York's “Chinese Jails”0
Half Real: Presence and Absence in Mexico's Juzgado General de Naturales0
The Surveillance State and the Surveillance Private Sector: Pathways to Undercover Policing in France and the United States0
Courtney E. Thompson, An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2021. Pp.259. $120.00 hardcover (ISBN 9781978813070
Barry E.C. Boothman, Corporate Cataclysm: Abitibi Power & Paper and the Collapse of the Newsprint Industry, 1912–1946. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. Pp. xxvii + 645. $95.00 hardcover0
Taking the Discipline of Law Seriously: Twining, Arthurs, and Histories of Academic Lawyers0
Uncertain Comparisons: Zionist and Israeli Links to India and Pakistan in the Age of Partition and Decolonization0
Review Essay: Surgeons at the Bar: From the Crime Scene to the Courtroom0
Religion, Law, and the Dynamics of Intellectual Transmission: Weimar Jurisprudence among Religious Socialists in Israel0
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Kathryn D. Temple, Loving Justice: Legal Emotions in Blackstone's England, New York: New York University Press, 2019. Pp. viii, 265. $45.00 hardcover (ISBN 9781479895274).0
Interpolity Law and Jurisdictional Politics0
Radha Kumar, Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975 Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2021. Pp. 241. $19.95 paperback (ISBN 9781501761065).0
Michel Gobat, Empire by Invitation: William Walker and Manifest Destiny in Central America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. 384. $41.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780674737495).0
“I Could Not Come in Unless over their Dead Bodies”: Dignitary Offenses0
The Right to Come and Go0
Stephanie Elsky, Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. x, 224. $70.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780198861430).0
Rubén Nazario Velasco, La historia de los derrotados: americanización y romanticismo en Puerto Rico, 1898-1917. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Ediciones Laberinto, 2019. Pp. 295. $20.85 paper (ISBN 97819504140
Making Maritime Boundaries in the Bay of Bengal0
The Requerimiento in the Old World: Making Demands and Keeping Records in the Legal Culture of Late Medieval Castile0
Emily Whewell, Law Across Imperial Borders: British Consuls and Colonial Connections on China's Western Frontiers. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. Pp. 214. £80.00 hardcover (ISBN 9781520
The Limits of the Law in Claiming Rights to Land in a Settler Colony: South Australia in the Early-to-Mid Nineteenth Century0
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Eric H. Reiter, Wounded Feelings: Litigating Emotions in Quebec, 1870-1950, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. Pp. 504. $33.71 paperback (ISBN 9781487526986).0
Susan Burch, Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and Beyond Institutions. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Pp. 240. $95.00 hardcover (ISBN 9781469661612); $17.95 paperback (0
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K.J. Kesselring, Making Murder Public: Homicide in Early Modern England, 1480-1680, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. vi, 156. $85.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780198835622).0
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The Redefinition of Clandestine Marriage by Sixteenth-Century Lutheran Theologians and Jurists0
Codifying Credit: Everyday Contracting and the Spread of the Civil Code in Nineteenth-Century Mexico0
Registering and Regulating Family Life: The School Thombos in Dutch Sri Lanka0
Seeing Like an Anti-Fraud State0
The Sailing Scribes: Circulating Law in the Twentieth-Century Indian Ocean0
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Genteel Culture, Legal Education, and Constitutional Controversy in Early National Virginia0
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Rights, Dignity, and Public Accommodations0
Exploring African Abolitionism: Fante Perspectives on Domestic Slavery in the Nineteenth-Century Gold Coast0
Philip Thai, China's War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. Pp. 408. $60.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780231185844).0
Constitutions and Modernity in Post-Colonial Afghanistan: Ethnolinguistic Nationalism and the Making of an Afghan Nation-State0
The Reconstruction of Federalism: Foreign Submarine Telegraph Cables and American Law, 1868–780
Pathologization, Law, and Gender in Cases of Infanticide in Spain and the Netherlands in the Mid-Twentieth Century: A Comparative Perspective0
Counterterrorism in American Civil Courts: The Role ofLetelier v. Republic of Chile0
Yuko Miki, Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 292. $99.99 hardcover (ISBN 9781108417501).0
Courts and Constitutions in South Asia and the Global South: A View from the Middle East0
The Portable Coup: The Jurisprudence of ‘Revolution’ in Uganda and Nigeria0
“They Call it Schaec in Flemish”: The Language of Abduction with Marital Intent in the Late Medieval Low Countries0
From Slaves to Índios: Empire, Slavery, and Race (Maranhão, Brazil, c.1740–90)0
A Christmas Eve Murder and the Notorious Georges: Community Identity in Northern British Columbia, 1913/140
An Empire in Disguise: The Appropriation of Pre-Existing Modes of Governance in Dutch South Asia, 1650–18000
Chenxi Tang, Imagining World Order: Literature and International Law in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1800, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018. Pp. 360. $59.95 hardcover (ISBN 9781501716911).0
“To Save the Benefit of the Act of Parliamt”: Mapping an Early American Copyright0
Diana S. Kim, Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. 336. $35.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780691172408).0
Michael Ng, Political Censorship in British Hong Kong: Freedom of Expression and the Law (1842–1997) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xiv + 211. Hardcover $39.99 (ISBN 9781108830
The Uses and Abuses of Legal Pluralism: A View from the Sideline0
Faiz Ahmed, Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. 448. $51.50 hardcover (ISBN 9780674971943).0
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How Hermann Kantorowicz Changed His Mind About America and Its Law, 1927–340
Sascha Auerbach, Armed with Sword and Scales: Law, Culture, and Local Courtrooms in London, 1860–1913 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xxii, 403. $99.99 hardcover (ISBN 978-1-100
Law, Courts, and Constitutions in Twentieth-Century South Asia0
“No Quixotry in Redress of Grievances”: How Community Abatement of Public Nuisances Disappeared from American Law0
Concrete Leviathan: The Interstate Highway System and Infrastructural Inequality in the Age of Liberalism0
Sarah A. Seo, Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. 352. $28.95 hardcover (ISBN 9780674980860).0
Legal Limbo and Caste Consternation: Determining Kayasthas' Varna Rank in Indian Law Courts, 1860–1930 – CORRIGENDUM0
Heart Transplants, Legislating Death, and Disruptive Anti-Apartheid Advocacy0
Protecting Foreigners: The Refugee Crisis on the Belize–Yucatán Border, 1847–710
Reforming Women, Protecting Men: The Prosecution of Infanticide in Venezuela's Early Republic, 1820–600
Catherine L. Evans, Unsound Empire: Civilization & Madness in Late-Victorian Law. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021. Pp. 304. $65.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780300242744).0
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Joan Sangster, One Hundred Years of Struggle: The History of Women and the Vote in Canada. Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press, 2018. Pp. 322 + vi. $27.95 CAN hardcover (ISBN 9780774835336); $22.95 CAN p0
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Mona L. Siegel, Peace on Our Terms. The Global Battle for Women's Rights after the First World War. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. Pp. 344. $35.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780231195102).0
“The Work of Some Irresponsible Women”: Jurors, Ghosts, and Embracery in the Irish Free State0
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Ashley T. Rubin, The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 356. $59.990
Julian Lim, Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.–Mexican Borderlands. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. xv + 302. $32.50 hardcover (ISBN 9781469635490
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How Hermann Kantorowicz Changed His Mind About America and Its Law, 1927–34 – CORRIGENDUM0
Government, Money, and the Law0
The Case of Proclamations (1610), Aldred's Case (1610), and the Origins of the Sic Utere/Salus Populi Antithesis0
The Edicts of the Praetors: Law, Time, and Revolution in Ancient Rome – ERRATUM0
Lisa Kloppenberg, The Best Beloved Thing is Justice: The Life of Dorothy Wright Nelson New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 216. $39.95 hardcover (ISBN 9780197608579); ebook (ISBN 978010
Rethinking the Rethinking of Legal Pluralism: Toward a Manifesto for a Pluri-Legal Perspective0
Taking the Courts to the Fields: Law, Violence, and Agrarian Custom in Colonial Oaxaca, Mexico0
The Making of Modern US Citizenship and Alienage: The History of Asian Immigration, Racial Capital, and US Law0
Christopher Tomlins, In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. 352. $29.95 hardcover (ISBN 9780691198668).0
James E. Lewis Jr., The Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017. Pp. viii + 713. $35.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780691177168); $21.90
Christopher W. Schmidt, Civil Rights in America: A History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp.250. $114.95 hardcover (ISBN 9781108426251); $39.95 paperback (ISBN 9781108444972).0
Four Fragments on Doing Legal History, or Thinking with and against Willard Hurst0
Nurfadzilah Yahaya, Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. xi, 241. $49.95 hardcover (ISBN 9781501750878).0
Paul Sabin, Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2021. Pp. 272. $26.95 hardcover (ISBN 978-0-393-63404-4).0
Alison C. Carey, Pamela Block, and Richard K. Scotch, Allies and Obstacles: Disability Activism and Parents of Children with Disabilities. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2020. Pp. 334. 0
Ahmad Bey's 1846 Istiftāʾ: Its Dual Legislative Framework and Religio-Political Context0
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Richard H. Helmholz, The Profession of Ecclesiastical Lawyers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xvii, 232. $110.00 hardcover (ISBN 97811008499064).0
Robin Chapman Stacey, Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. viii, 335. $89.95 hardcover (ISBN 9780812250510).0
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Protecting the Colony from its People: Bushranging, Vagrancy, and Social Control in Colonial New South Wales0
The Power of Parwanas: Indo-Persian Grants and the Making of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Southern India0
Prisons of Rubble and Paper in Colonial Saint-Domingue and Beyond0
Legal Pluralism, Arbitration, and State Formation: The Rise and Fall of Philadelphia's Quaker Court, 1682–17720
Legal Limbo and Caste Consternation: Determining Kayasthas’ Varna Rank in Indian Law Courts, 1860–19300
Thomas J. McSweeney, Priests of the Law: Roman Law and the Making of the Common Law's First Professionals. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xvi, 287. $90.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780198845454).0
Paper Empires: Layers of Law in Colonial South Asia and the Indian Ocean0
Adriana Chira, Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race Beyond Cuba's Plantations Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 320. $102.95 hardcover (ISBN 9781108499545); $33.95 paperbac0
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Francis Lieber and G. Norman Lieber, To Save the Country: A Lost Treatise on Martial Law, edited with an introduction by Will Smiley and John Fabian Witt, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 0
Luke Taylor, Constructing the Family: Marriage and Work in Nineteenth-Century English Law Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. Pp. viii, 411. $90 hardcover (ISBN 978-1-4875-4652-6).0
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Andrew Phillips and J.C. Sharman, Outsourcing Empire: How Company-States Made the Modern World, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp 272. $40.99 hardcover (ISBN 9780691203515).0
Introduction: Rebecca Scott's History of Public Rights0
The Medico-Legalization of Sex in the Nineteenth-Century United States0
Negotiating Nationhood: Constitutional Warfare, International Law, and the Birth of Bangladesh0
Tom Johnson, Law in Common: Legal Cultures in Late-Medieval England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xii, 324. $105.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780198785613).0
A True Copy? Documents and the Production of Legality in the Bombay Inam Commission0
An Instrument of Military Power: The Development and Evolution of Japanese Martial Law in Occupied Territories, 1894–1945 – ERRATUM0
Andrea Freeman, Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. 304. $28.00 hardcover (ISBN 9781503601123); $28.00 ebook (ISBN 9781503610811).0
The Conservative Press and the Interwar Origins of First Amendment Lochnerism0
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Human Rights at the Edges of Late Imperial Britain: TheTyrerCase and Judicial Corporal Punishment from the Isle of Man to Montserrat, 1972–19900
Complicating Conformity0
Into Law's Artifice: Postwar Policing, Sexual Difference, and the Epistemic Gap0
In Pursuit of Freedom: Oaths, Slave Agency, and the Abolition of Slavery in Western Tanzania, 1905–19300
Material Pluralism and Symbolic Violence: Palm Leaf Deeds and Paper Land Grants in Colonial Sri Lanka, 1680–17950
Ronit Y. Stahl, Enlisting Faith: How the Military Chaplaincy Shaped Religion and State in Modern America, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. x + 384. $41.00 hardcover (ISBN 978067497210
Meet Me in Pervert Park: Epistemology, Positionality, and Praxis in the Queer History of Policing and the Law0
Aaron Griffith, God's Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp.335.00. $35 hardcover (ISBN 9780674238787).0
Elizabeth Allen, Uncertain Refuge: Sanctuary in the Literature of Medieval England Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. x, 311. $59.95 hardcover (ISBN 978-0-8122-5344-3).0
The Rise of the Indigenous Jurists0
From Disestablishment to Dartmouth College v. Woodward: How Virginia's Fight over Religious Freedom Shaped the History of American Corporations0
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Carlton F. W. Larson, The Trials of Allegiance: Treason, Juries, and the American Revolution New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp.424. $40.95 hardcover (ISBN 9780190932749).0
Before Equal Protection: The Fall of Cross-Dressing Bans and the Transgender Legal Movement, 1963–860
“People Crushed by Law Have No Hopes but from Power”: Free Speech and Protest in the 1940s0
Persistence of Practice in Law's Parwana and Palm Leaf Empire0
Niamh Howlin, Juries in Ireland: Laypersons and Law in the Long Nineteenth Century. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2017. Pp. x, 293. $74.50 hardcover (ISBN 9781846826214).0
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Does Originalism Have a Natural Law Problem?0
Francesca Trivellato, The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Pres0
Religious Liberty Sacralized: The Persistence of Christian Dissenting Tradition and the Cincinnati Bible War0
“Do Not Harm the Decorum”: Mixed Courts and Cloth in Colonial Indonesia0
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