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🚨 New Law & History Review article alert:
Matilde Cazzola and Sabarish Suresh, "The Trauma of Constitutions: Criminalising the Past in Italy and India"

Open Access ✅

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#legalhistory
The Trauma of Constitutions: Criminalising the Past in Italy and India | Law and History Review | Cambridge Core
The Trauma of Constitutions: Criminalising the Past in Italy and India
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November 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Law & History Review will publish (2026) a special issue on law, plebiscites and democracy, and we are pleased to announce the publication of one contribution: Lucia Rubinelli's study of 19th century British socialists reckoning with referendums and democracy.

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The Shortest Way to Democracy: Debates about the Referendum and Socialist Democratic Theory in the Late Nineteenth Century | Law and History Review | Cambridge Core
The Shortest Way to Democracy: Debates about the Referendum and Socialist Democratic Theory in the Late Nineteenth Century
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October 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Our own @simonatmadison.bsky.social’s latest article, “Taken Not Given: The End of Slavery in Britain” had just published in the @lawandhistrev.bsky.social and is Open Access! It explores the importance of self-liberation to ending slavery in Britain.

Link:
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Taken Not Given: The End of Slavery in Britain | Law and History Review | Cambridge Core
Taken Not Given: The End of Slavery in Britain
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September 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Out #OpenAccess on FirstView @lawandhistrev.bsky.social: 'Conspiracy, Crime, and Conflict in the Court of Star Chamber'. #StarChamber
October 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
🚨 New Law & History Review article alert:
Kyle Melles, "Kenya's Emergency Powers: Legal Continuities in the Post-Colonial State, 1959–1969"

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Kenya's Emergency Powers: Legal Continuities in the Post-Colonial State, 1959–1969 | Law and History Review | Cambridge Core
Kenya's Emergency Powers: Legal Continuities in the Post-Colonial State, 1959–1969
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September 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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📢New publication!! Out #openaccess FirstView: "Alien Acts in the Age of Emancipation: Mobility Control and Executive Power in the British Caribbean, 1820s–1830s," by Jan C. Jansen in Law and History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social. Access here doi.org/10.1017/S073.... Short summary in 🧵
Alien Acts in the Age of Emancipation: Mobility Control and Executive Power in the British Caribbean, 1820s–1830s | Law and History Review | Cambridge Core
Alien Acts in the Age of Emancipation: Mobility Control and Executive Power in the British Caribbean, 1820s–1830s
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August 25, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🚨 New Law & History Review article alert:
Dennis J. Wieboldt III, "Ideas With(out) Consequences?: The Natural Law Institute and the Making of Conservative Constitutionalism During the Cold War, 1947–1951"

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Ideas With(out) Consequences?: The Natural Law Institute and the Making of Conservative Constitutionalism During the Cold War, 1947–1951 | Law and History Review | Cambridge Core
Ideas With(out) Consequences?: The Natural Law Institute and the Making of Conservative Constitutionalism During the Cold War, 1947–1951
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August 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM
🚨 New Law & History Review article alert:
Jan C. Jansen, "Alien Acts in the Age of Emancipation: Mobility Control and Executive Power in the British Caribbean, 1820s–1830s"

Open Access ✅

doi.org/10.1017/S073...
Alien Acts in the Age of Emancipation: Mobility Control and Executive Power in the British Caribbean, 1820s–1830s | Law and History Review | Cambridge Core
Alien Acts in the Age of Emancipation: Mobility Control and Executive Power in the British Caribbean, 1820s–1830s
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August 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
We're searching for a new Editor-in-Chief! Please see Call for Applications:
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Law and History Review: A Call for an Editor
[We have the following announcement from the Publications Committee of the American Society for Legal History .  DRE]  After eight years of ...
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August 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Big news! After 8 years of exemplary service, @gauthamrao.bsky.social is stepping down as editor of @lawandhistrev.bsky.social. The ASLH seeks applications for the next editor. Great opportunity, though Gautham's shoes will be hard to fill.
Details here:
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August 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Law and History Review is pleased to announce publication of this year's first issue of The Docket, our digital imprint dedicated to bringing cutting-edge legal history to our readers--no paywall, no access restrictions.

Here's our table of contents for Volume 8, Issue 1-2 (2025)
July 31, 2025 at 11:10 AM
🚨 New Law & History Review article alert:
Julia Bowes, “Another Human Sacrifice Thrown to the Pitiless Moloch of Police Power”: The Anti-Vaccination Movement, Parental Rights, and the Roots of American Anti-Statism, 1890–1917

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“Another Human Sacrifice Thrown to the Pitiless Moloch of Police Power”: The Anti-Vaccination Movement, Parental Rights, and the Roots of American Anti-Statism, 1890–1917 | Law and History Review | Ca...
“Another Human Sacrifice Thrown to the Pitiless Moloch of Police Power”: The Anti-Vaccination Movement, Parental Rights, and the Roots of American Anti-Statism, 1890–1917
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July 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
🚨 New Law & History Review article alert:
David Korostyshevsky, "Incapable of Managing His Estate: Habitual Drunkards and the Expansion of Guardianship in the Nineteenth-Century United States"

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Incapable of Managing His Estate: Habitual Drunkards and the Expansion of Guardianship in the Nineteenth-Century United States | Law and History Review | Cambridge Core
Incapable of Managing His Estate: Habitual Drunkards and the Expansion of Guardianship in the Nineteenth-Century United States
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July 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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@juergendinkel.bsky.social
“The Rich Uncle from America”: Transnational Inheritance Transfers between the United States, Germany, and Russia, 1840s–1980s

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“The Rich Uncle from America”: Transnational Inheritance Transfers between the United States, Germany, and Russia, 1840s–1980s | Law and History Review | Cambridge Core
“The Rich Uncle from America”: Transnational Inheritance Transfers between the United States, Germany, and Russia, 1840s–1980s
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July 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
🚨 New Law & History Review article alert:
Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, "Distressing the Distressed”: Rent Distraint in Early Republic New York"

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"legal...history of distress for rent...a legal tool that allowed landlords...seize tenants’ belongings and sell..."
“Distressing the Distressed”: Rent Distraint in Early Republic New York | Law and History Review | Cambridge Core
“Distressing the Distressed”: Rent Distraint in Early Republic New York
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July 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
🚨 New Law & History Review article alert:
@jakedyble.bsky.social Jake Dyble, "The Twentieth-Century Origins of the Medieval Lex Mercatoria Thesis"

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The Twentieth-Century Origins of the Medieval Lex Mercatoria Thesis | Law and History Review | Cambridge Core
The Twentieth-Century Origins of the Medieval Lex Mercatoria Thesis
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June 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🚨 New Law & History Review article alert:
Wojciech Engelking, "How Kantian is Kelsen’s Early Theory of International Law?"

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How Kantian is Kelsen’s Early Theory of International Law? | Law and History Review | Cambridge Core
How Kantian is Kelsen’s Early Theory of International Law?
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June 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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@slr-nlsiu.bsky.social 20th #anniversary: I was delighted to write a reflective essay on early years of SLR at #NLSIU and interdisciplinary legal research and publishing in #India

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June 19, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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A shoutout for Elizabeth Lhost's wonderful essay on the contributions and challenges of socio-legal studies x legal history @slr-nlsiu.bsky.social @lawandhistrev.bsky.social - #History #AcademicSky

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June 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
🚨 New Law & History Review book review:
Meng Zhang on Taisu Zhang, The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation: Belief Systems, Politics, and Institutions (2023)

"compelling and nuanced exploration of the ideological and institutional forces that shaped Qing fiscal policy"

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Taisu Zhang, The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation: Belief Systems, Politics, and Institutions Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 422, $120.00 hardcover (ISBN 9781108995955). | La...
Taisu Zhang, The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation: Belief Systems, Politics, and Institutions Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 422, $120.00 hardcover (ISBN 9781108995955).
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June 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
🚨 New Law & History Review book review:
@mattsteilen.bsky.social reviews Allen D. Boyer and Mark Nicholls, The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History (2024).

"...praiseworthy and a highly useful book for...an introduction to...treason’s life cycle in England."

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Allen D. Boyerand Mark Nicholls , The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 333. $180.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780367509934). | Law and History Review | Cambridge Core
Allen D. Boyerand Mark Nicholls , The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 333. $180.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780367509934).
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June 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
🚨 New Law & History Review book review

Pouwel van Schooten reviews Nadeera Rupesinghe, Lawmaking in Dutch Sri Lanka. Navigating Pluralities in a Colonial Society (2023)

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Nadeera Rupesinghe, Lawmaking in Dutch Sri Lanka. Navigating Pluralities in a Colonial Society, Amsterdam: Leiden University Press, 2023. Pp. 316. € 66,00 paperback (ISBN 9789087283759). | Law and His...
Nadeera Rupesinghe, Lawmaking in Dutch Sri Lanka. Navigating Pluralities in a Colonial Society, Amsterdam: Leiden University Press, 2023. Pp. 316. € 66,00 paperback (ISBN 9789087283759).
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May 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM