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BOOK: Peter Oldham KC, Law and Politics at the National Industrial Relations Court 1970-75. 'Rather Peculiar Things' (London: Bloomsbury/Hart, 2025), 208 p. ISBN 9781509985418, 108 USD

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BOOK: Peter Oldham KC, Law and Politics at the National Industrial Relations Court 1970-75. 'Rather Peculiar Things' (London: Bloomsbury/Hart, 2025), 208 p. ISBN 9781509985418, 108 USD
(image source: Bloomsbury ) Abstract: This book gives extraordinary new insights into the legal, political and industrial strife in the UK...
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November 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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BOOK: Philip BAJON, Informal Decision Making in the European Community under the Luxembourg Compromise. The Law that Never Was (London: Bloomsbury/Hart, 2025

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BOOK: Philip BAJON, Informal Decision Making in the European Community under the Luxembourg Compromise. The Law that Never Was (London: Bloomsbury/Hart, 2025),
(image source: Hart ) Abstract: This book analyses the informal decision making process in the EU against the background of a gradually em...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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CONFERENCE: Territoire(s). Notion, limites et extensions (Lille: Université de Lille, Salle Guy Debeyre, 14-15 NOV 2025)

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CONFERENCE: Territoire(s). Notion, limites et extensions (Lille: Université de Lille, Salle Guy Debeyre, 14-15 NOV 2025)
(Image source: Univ-droit ) Abstract Understood as part of the earth’s surface in the usual sense, described by Sextus Pomponius in the Dige...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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BOOK: Andrés LIRA (with the assistance of Pablo MIJANGOS and Francisco Javier BELTRÁN, foreword Erika PANI), Derecho e instituciones en la historia de México [Historia del Derecho en América Latina] (México: Tirant lo Blanch, 2025), 570 p. ISBN 9788410953963

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BOOK: Andrés LIRA (with the assistance of Pablo MIJANGOS and Francisco Javier BELTRÁN, foreword Erika PANI), Derecho e instituciones en la historia de México [Historia del Derecho en América Latina] (...
(image source: publisher) Abstract: Don Andrés Lira ha sido uno de los principales renovadores de la historiografía jurídica mexicana dura...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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BOOK: Éric ANCEAU (dir.), Nouvelle Histoire de France (Paris: Passes Composés, 2025), 1104 p. ISBN 979104040689, €36

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BOOK: Éric ANCEAU (dir.), Nouvelle Histoire de France (Paris: Passes Composés, 2025), 1104 p. ISBN 979104040689, €36
(image source: Passés Composés ) Abstract: L’histoire est trop souvent un champ de bataille où s’affrontent des idéologies. Ces dernières ...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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BOOK: Alain LAQUIÈRE, Éric PEUCHOT & Jean-Félix de BUJADOUX (dir.), Crise de la démocratie parlementaire et réformisme constitutionnel au temps de la Belle Époque [Rencontres, 681; Science Politique, 14] @classiquesgarnier.bsky.social 📖

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BOOK: Alain LAQUIÈRE, Éric PEUCHOT & Jean-Félix de BUJADOUX (dir.), Crise de la démocratie parlementaire et réformisme constitutionnel au temps de la Belle Époque [Rencontres, 681; Science Politique, ...
(image source: Classiques Garnier ) Abstract: Le réformisme constitutionnel au temps de la Belle Époque aspirait à se déployer dans de nom...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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BOOK: Stefano CATTELAN, Mare Clausum: The Formation of the Law of the Sea in Pre-Modern State Practice and Legal Doctrine (c. 1350–1650) [Legal History Library, 77; Studies in the History of International Law, 28]

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VACANCY: Postdoctoral researcher in legal history on Labour Evolution: Forging Individual Rights in the Transformation of Early Modern European Empires (Helsinki: University of Helsinki; DEADLINE 15 NOV 2025)

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VACANCY: Postdoctoral researcher in legal history on Labour Evolution: Forging Individual Rights in the Transformation of Early Modern European Empires (Helsinki: University of Helsinki; DEADLINE 15 ...
(image source: Wikimedia Commons )  Description: The Faculty of Law invites applications for a fixed term employment as a postdoctoral resea...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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BOOK: Ferdinand MÉLIN-SOUCRAMANIEN, La Constitution de 1875. La République parlementaire en France (Paris: Lefebvre Dalloz, 2025)

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BOOK: Ferdinand MÉLIN-SOUCRAMANIEN, La Constitution de 1875. La République parlementaire en France (Paris: Lefebvre Dalloz, 2025),
(image source: Lefebvre Dalloz ) Description: Les lois constitutionnelles de 1875 sont les trois lois de nature constitutionnelle votées e...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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CONFERENCE: Belgisch-Nederlandse Rechtshistorische Dagen (Nijmegen: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 27-28 NOV 2025)

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CONFERENCE: Belgisch-Nederlandse Rechtshistorische Dagen (Nijmegen: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 27-28 NOV 2025)
(Image source: Radboud University ) Nederlands-Belgische Rechtshistorische Dagen (donderdag 27 en vrijdag 28 nov 2025)   Alle onderdelen...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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CONFERENCE: "Les cours souveraines face aux déviances et aux minorités religieuses" (Grenoble: CESICE, 6-7 NOV 2025)

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CONFERENCE: "Les cours souveraines face aux déviances et aux minorités religieuses" (Grenoble: CESICE, 6-7 NOV 2025)
(image source: CESICE ) Description: Du 6 novembre 2025 au 7 novembre 2025 Complément date Le CESICE co-organise avec le CERHIIP un colloq...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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CONFERENCE: Les journées régionales d’Histoire de la Justice « Greffes et greffiers » (Dijon: CREDESPO, 6-7 NOV 2025)

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CONFERENCE: Les journées régionales d’Histoire de la Justice « Greffes et greffiers » (Dijon: CREDESPO, 6-7 NOV 2025)
(image source: CREDESPO ) Abstract: organisées par l’AFHJ, en partenariat avec l’Université de Bourgogne Europe (Credespo), la Cour d’appe...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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BOOK: Michał GALEDEK and Anna TARNOWSKA, Shaping the Congress Kingdom of Poland (1815–1830). The Interconnectivity of Constitutional and Liberal Ideas in Europe after Napoleon @degruyterbrill.bsky.social 📖

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BOOK: Michał GALEDEK and Anna TARNOWSKA, Shaping the Congress Kingdom of Poland (1815–1830). The Interconnectivity of Constitutional and Liberal Ideas in Europe after Napoleon [Legal History Library, ...
(image source: Brill ) Abstract: Should the dispute over the interpretation of the 1815 constitution of Congress Poland be considered a ke...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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THESIS PRIZE: Nelly BYTCHKOWSKY, La systématisation du droit à l'Époque moderne : l’œuvre de Louis de Héricourt (1687-1752) (Prix de thèse Ourliac 2025, Académie de législation, Toulouse)

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THESIS PRIZE: Nelly BYTCHKOWSKY, La systématisation du droit à l'Époque moderne : l’œuvre de Louis de Héricourt (1687-1752) (Prix de thèse Ourliac 2025, Académie de législation, Toulouse)
(image source: Centre Michel de l'Hospital ) Dr. Nelly Bytchwkosky (Université Clermont Auvergne) won the "Prix de thèse Ourliac 2025" (Ac...
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November 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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SEMINAR: Xavier PRÉVOST, L’humanisme juridique entre nationalismes et histoire transnationale (Louvain-la-Neuve/Ottignies: UCLouvain, 10 NOV 2025)

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SEMINAR: Xavier PRÉVOST, L’humanisme juridique entre nationalismes et histoire transnationale (Louvain-la-Neuve/Ottignies: UCLouvain, 10 NOV 2025)
(image source: UCLouvain ) ERC Grantee Prof. dr. Xavier Prévost (Bordeaux) will present his project "ISTHisFrench" at UCLouvain on 10 Novemb...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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BOOK REVIEW: Simon STERN on The reasonable person: a legal biography by Valentin Jeutner (Comparative Legal History, XIII (2025), nr. 1 (June), pp. 180-186)

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BOOK REVIEW: Simon STERN on The reasonable person: a legal biography by Valentin Jeutner (Comparative Legal History, XIII (2025), nr. 1 (June), pp. 180-186)
(Image source: Taylor&Francis ) Valentin Jeutner sets out to understand the reasonable person’s ‘double life’ as an ‘unpretentious but power...
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October 31, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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BOOK: Eleanor COWAN, Kit MORRELL, Andrew PETTINGER & Michael SEVEL (eds.), The Rule of Law in Ancient Rome (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025), ISBN 9780198959328

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BOOK: Eleanor COWAN, Kit MORRELL, Andrew PETTINGER & Michael SEVEL (eds.), The Rule of Law in Ancient Rome (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025), ISBN 9780198959328
(image source: OUP ) Abstract: This volume brings together the study of the rule of law—the idea that the law should protect citizens from...
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October 31, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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BOOK: Ilya A. KOTLYAR (ed.), Regulae Iuris in the Medieval and Modern Age. Essential Stability v. Evolving Contexts [Legal History Library, eds. Dirk HEIRBAUT, Michelle MCKINLEY, Matthew C. MIROW & R.C. VAN RHEE; vol. 78]

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BOOK: Ilya A. KOTLYAR (ed.), Regulae Iuris in the Medieval and Modern Age. Essential Stability v. Evolving Contexts [Legal History Library, eds. Dirk HEIRBAUT, Michelle MCKINLEY, Matthew C. MIROW & R....
(image source: Brill ) Abstract: This volume is the first anthology to address the topic of the regulae iuris, or maxims of law, from a un...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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EUTOPIA CONNECTED LEARNING COMMUNITY LEGAL HISTORY 25-26 OPENING LECTURE: Prof. dr. Miloš VEC (Universität Wien), "After 1919 and after 1945: How two World Wars shaped German Thinking on International Law" (ONLINE, 14 NOV 2025, 15:00 Brussels Time)

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EUTOPIA CONNECTED LEARNING COMMUNITY LEGAL HISTORY 25-26 OPENING LECTURE: Prof. dr. Miloš VEC (Universität Wien), "After 1919 and after 1945: How two World Wars shaped German Thinking on International...
(image source:  University of Vienna ) The  EUTopia Connected Learning Community Legal History  is delighted to welcome Prof. dr. Miloš Ve...
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October 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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BOOK: Jérôme HENNING, Introduction historique au droit [HyperCours/Cours & Travaux dirigés] (Paris: Lefebvre Dalloz, 2025), 596 p. ISBN 9782247223961, €32

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BOOK: Jérôme HENNING, Introduction historique au droit [HyperCours/Cours & Travaux dirigés] (Paris: Lefebvre Dalloz, 2025), 596 p. ISBN 9782247223961, €32
(image source: LGDJ ) Abstract: En 13 chapitres, couvrant les temps les anciens jusqu’en 1940, cet HyperCours propose au lecteur d'étudier...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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PRIZE: PHD Prize of the Association des Historiens des Facultés de Droit to Joseph MANN, "De l'histoire des corporations au corporatisme. Evolutions méthodologiques et recompositions idéologiques chez les historiens du droit en France (1830-1945)

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PRIZE: PHD Prize of the Association des Historiens des Facultés de Droit to Joseph MANN, "De l'histoire des corporations au corporatisme. Evolutions méthodologiques et recompositions idéologiques chez...
(image source: assohfd ) The Association des Historiens des Facultés de Droit  attributed its 2025 PhD Thesis Prize to Joseph MANN for the d...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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BOOK: Melissa J. GANZ (ed.), British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025), ISBN 9781009224185, € 105,4

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BOOK: Melissa J. GANZ (ed.), British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025), ISBN 9781009224185, € 105,4
(image source: Cambridge Core ) Abstract: The law underwent significant changes in eighteenth-century Britain as jurists and legislators a...
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October 28, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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BOOK: Geoffrey SAMUEL, Principia Iuris. A Historical and Comparative Introduction to the English Common Law (Cheltenham: E. Elgar, 2025), 284 p. ISBN 9781035350568, 90 GBP

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BOOK: Geoffrey SAMUEL, Principia Iuris. A Historical and Comparative Introduction to the English Common Law (Cheltenham: E. Elgar, 2025), 284 p. ISBN 9781035350568, 90 GBP
(image source: Elgar ) Abstract: This book provides a strong introduction to the principal domains of legal knowledge by examining a struc...
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October 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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BOOK: Xavier PRÉVOST & Luigi-Alberto SANCHI (dir.), Introduction à l'humanisme juridique. Auteurs, œuvres, idées, formes, destinées [Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance; 212] (Genève: Droz, 2025), 600 p. ISBN 9782600066495

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BOOK: Xavier PRÉVOST & Luigi-Alberto SANCHI (dir.), Introduction à l'humanisme juridique. Auteurs, œuvres, idées, formes, destinées [Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance; 212] (Genève: Droz, 2025), 600 ...
(image source: Droz ) Abstract: Dans l’Europe de la Renaissance, les humanistes ont investi le domaine du droit, notamment les textes romain...
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October 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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PRIZE LECTURE: Sarton Medal for Legal History 2025 to Prof. em. dr. Lucien BÉLY (Sorbonne-Université/Institut de France-Académie des sciences morales et politiques), "Les femmes dans la diplomatie aux temps modernes" (Ghent: UGent, 13 NOV 2025)

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PRIZE LECTURE: Sarton Medal for Legal History 2025 to Prof. em. dr. Lucien BÉLY (Sorbonne-Université/Institut de France-Académie des sciences morales et politiques), "Les femmes dans la diplomatie aux...
Sarton Medal 2025 – Sartonmedaille 2025 on Thursday, November 13 th at 4 pm   in Auditorium Leon De Meyer of the University Forum...
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