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BOOK: Elizabeth PAPP KAMALI, Saskia LETTMAIER & Nikitas HATZIMIHAIL (eds.), The Learned and Lived Law. Essays in Honour of Charles Donahue [Legal History Library, eds. Dirk HEIRBAUT, Matthew C. MIROW, Michelle MCKINLEY & Remco VAN RHEE; 70] (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, 2024), XVIII + 594 p. ISBN 9789004710696, € 217,8
(image source: Brill)On the editors:Elizabeth Papp Kamali, J.D. (2007), Harvard Law School, Ph.D. (2015), University of Michigan, is the Austin Wakeman Scott Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and author of Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England (Cambridge, 2019). Saskia Lettmaier, S.J.D. (2015), Harvard Law School, is Professor on the Faculty of Law, University of Kiel, Hamburg, and author of Broken Engagements: The Action for Breach of Promise of Marriage and the Feminine Ideal, 1800-1940 (Oxford, 2010), as well as Spouses, Church, and State: Marriage Law in England and […]
BOOK: Lyndsay CAMPBELL & Shaunnagh DORSETT (eds.), Legal Histories of Empire. Navigating Legalities (London: Routledge, 2025), 324 p. ISBN 9781032616179, 140 GBP
(image source: Routledge)Abstract:This collection brings together an international group of scholars in order to provide new insights into the diversity of imperial legalities.Across empires, legalities were produced not just – or even – through the imperial imposition of laws and legal forms, but through local processes of negotiation and contestation. Far from the metropoles, local actors found ways to creatively navigate and subvert imperial frameworks and laws and to create space in which to shape new legalities, responsive to local circumstance and need. Covering topics as diverse […]
BOOK: Jean-Marc THOUVENIN (ed.), Challenges of International Law at the Time of the Centenary of The Hague Academy of International Law/Les défis du droit international au tournant du centenaire de l’Académie de droit international de La Haye (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, 2024), 672 p. ISBN 978-90-04-71306-2, € 157,94
(image source: Brill)Abstract:The celebration of the Academy’s Centenary in May 2023 merited first and foremost a solemn ceremony offering a platform for the leading experts of the institution to retrace its journey over its first hundred years, its links with the city of The Hague, with the Netherlands, with the Peace Palace, but also to show its relationship with the International Court of Justice, and, of course, to discuss the courses given at the Academy. It was equally important to look ahead to the Academy’s future. Its Centenary also called for a major Colloquium dedicated to […]
SEMINARS: Seminari di Storia della cultura giuridica francese (Roma: Università Roma Tre, 29 NOV, 5 DEC 2024)
(Source: Storia del diritto)
BOOK: Stefan ESDERS, Sören KASCHKE, Britta MISCHKE, Steffen PATZOLD, Dominik TRUMP, Karl UBL (eds.), Fränkische Herrschererlasse (814–840). Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Leges, Capitularia regum Francorum, Nova series, 4, (Wiesbden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024). ISBN: 9783447119795
(Image source: Harrassowitz Verlag)Die fränkischen Herrschererlasse (Kapitularien) gehören zu den wichtigsten Quellen der Geschichte des Frankenreichs. Sie zeigen die Versuche der karolingischen Herrscher, das durch Karl den Großen erweiterte Großreich regierbar zu machen, und sind für nahezu alle Bereiche der fränkischen Geschichte eine unverzichtbare Grundlage historischer Forschung: Sie informieren über Reformen in Kirche, Gesellschaft und Reich, über die Mechanismen der politischen Krisenbewältigung, über Anspruch und Grenzen herrscherlicher Eingriffe in lokale Strukturen, […]
BOOK: Dirk HEIRBAUT, Redefining Codification. A Comparative History of Civil, Commercial, and Procedural Codes (Oxford: OUP, 2025), 496 p. 9780198947363, 160 GBP
(image source: OUP)Abstract:More than half of the world's population lives under law codes. Yet, defining the concept of codification remains elusive. Rather than delving into abstract theories, this book provides a rich and contextual comparative legal history of codes in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium from the late eighteenth century to the present. The author starts by examining the evolution of French, German, Dutch, and Belgian codes in their political and comparative context, thus challenging deeply rooted national narratives. He covers the well-studied civil codes and […]
LECTURE: Charles Walton: "Between Redistribution and Theories of Abundance: Toward a Deep History of Social Rights" (University of Warwick, 26 NOV 2024, 18:00 CET/17:00 GMT, Teams) (ONLINE)
(image source: University of Warwick)The EUTopia Connected Learning Community Legal History, which unites staff and students as well as external experts around the theme Collective and Individual Rights in Legal History, is delighted to announce the Opening Keynote Lecture for this year, to be given by dr. Charles Walton (University of Warwick) on Tuesday 26 November.Biography:Charles Walton is a historian of France and Director of the Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre. Link […]
REMINDER CFP:CALL FOR PAPERS: Workshop 'Freedom of the seas and freedom of the individual: a historical appraisal' (London: School of Oriental and African Studies University of London, 7 FEB 2025) [DEADLINE 20 NOV 2024]
Call for papersFreedom of the seas is a time-honoured principle of international law and the dogma of old and new maritime powers. Traditionally associated with Western-dominated legal doctrine and imperialist mindset, freedom of the seas allowed European states to expand and engage in direct trade with East and West, eventually leading to imperialism and colonisation. Conceptually, its genesis is generally attributed to the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius and his advocacy in favour of Dutch trade interests in the Indian Ocean in the early XVII century. However, this narrative entirely overlooks […]

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