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Law & History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social · 14h
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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Freedom Seekers: Stories of Black Liberation in the Am. Rev. @freedomseekers.bsky.social · 16d
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.

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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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Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social · 8d
Out #OpenAccess on FirstView @lawandhistrev.bsky.social: 'Conspiracy, Crime, and Conflict in the Court of Star Chamber'. #StarChamber
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Law & History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social · 24d
"colonial officers and nationalists alike agreed to retain colonial security laws, especially the Preservation of Public Security Ordinance. The legacies of colonial law therefore remain prominent in Kenya's security legislation..."
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Law & History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social · 24d
🚨 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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ERC Project Atlantic Exiles @atlanticexiles.bsky.social · Aug 25
📢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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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · Sep 3
my review of Lauren Benton's new book is out now in @lawandhistrev.bsky.social

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Lauren Benton , They Called it Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 304. £35 hardcover (ISBN 9780691248479) | Law and History Review | Cambridge Core
Lauren Benton , They Called it Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 304. £35 hardcover (ISBN 9780691248479)
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Sara McDougall @sarannmcd.bsky.social · Sep 5
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... brand new must read on rape/raptus, virginity as a state of mind, and consent from Atria Larson @lawandhistrev.bsky.social @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social #medievalsky
Lucretia (and Lucia) and the Medieval Canonists: Guilt, Consent, and Chastity in the Early Canonistic Jurisprudence of Rape: Submission for Law and History Review | Law and History Review | Cambridge ...
Lucretia (and Lucia) and the Medieval Canonists: Guilt, Consent, and Chastity in the Early Canonistic Jurisprudence of Rape: Submission for Law and History Review
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Law & History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social · Aug 18
🚨 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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Law & History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social · Aug 8
🚨 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"

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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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Law & History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social · Aug 7
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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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · Aug 7
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.
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The ASLH Publications Committee invites applications for the position. Applicants should be members of the American Society for Legal History who are accomplished legal historians, have the intellectual range to work with manuscripts from different historical periods and geographic regions, are conversant with both law and history, and welcome the opportunity to identify and promote the best scholarship in the field. They should be prepared to request release time and other departmental or institutional support.
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Law & History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social · Jul 31
Lauren Davis Jarnach explores the 1910 Arizona constitutional convention and how the breakdown of parliamentary procedure had profound effects for democracy.
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Lauren Davis Jarnach–Negotiating the Arizona Constitution: The Role of Parliamentary Procedure in Ensuring Democratic Textual Outcomes – Law & History Review
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Law & History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social · Jul 31
Dennis Wieboldt III's "Natural Law and the Study of “Conservative” Constitutionalism" previews a forthcoming article in Law and History Review that explores the history of the Natural Law Institute (NLI), during the mid-twentieth century.
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Dennis Wieboldt III: Natural Law and the Study of “Conservative” Constitutionalism – Law & History Review
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Law & History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social · Jul 31
Jonathan Connolly discusses his research process at the National Archives in London that led to his book, Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation (University of Chicago Press, 2024)

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Jonathan Connolly: Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation – Law & History Review
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Law & History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social · Jul 31
We interview Simon Rabinovitch about his recent book Sovereignty and Religious Freedom: A Jewish History (Yale 2024), a comparative, global approach to telling the story of Jewish people’s pursuit of legal sovereignty over several centuries.
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Simon Rabinovitch–Sovereignty and Religious Freedom: A Jewish History – Law & History Review
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Law & History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social · Jul 31
Marie-Amélie George's article, "History as a Beacon of Hope," expands on her recent book, Family Matters: Queer Households and the Half-Century Struggle for Legal Recognition to address the present crisis for LGBTQ+ rights.

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Law & History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social · Jul 31
Sarah Gronningsater discusses her multiple award-winning new book, The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024).

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Law & History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social · Jul 31
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)
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Law & History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social · Jul 28
🚨 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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Law & History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social · Jul 18
🚨 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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Law & History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social · Jul 11
🚨 New Law & History Review article alert:
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“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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Law & History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social · Jul 11
🚨 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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Law & History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social · Jun 29
🚨 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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