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Law and History Review's Docket is looking for a book reviewer for a book on early modern English legal history. We cannot compensate, but can offer a copy of the book (e or print) and 1000 words with no paywall. DM if interested or email lhrdocketeditor at gmail
For what it’s worth, some problems have thrown up their own new forms of legal scholarship. I’m thinking here about how the new doctrinal interest in history led to that section on applied legal history in @TheDocketLHR and now this new journal: https://jach.law.wisc.edu
Apologies for the issue with Direct Messages, which is now resolved!
We are looking for a reviewer for a recent book on law and slavery in the early US. We are not able to pay for submissions but will provide a free copy of the book. Published piece will not be paywalled! Please contact us via DM or email, info in profile.
We are looking for a reviewer for a recent book on the US Civil Rights movement. We are not able to pay for submissions but will provide a free copy of the book. Published piece will not be paywalled! Please contact us via DM or email, info in profile.
We are pleased to announce publication of our third issue of 2022, with original articles, reviews, and a forum on William J. Novak's New Democracy. Here is our table of contents:
Allison Orr Larsen’s article in @politico on SCOTUS and the uses and misuses of history links to the recent Docket piece by medievalists @SaraMcDougall2 @pardon_mi @KarlShoemaker4 about what the Dobbs majority got wrong https://lawandhistoryreview.org/article/abortion-was-a-crime-three-medievalists-respond-to-english-cases-dating-all-the-way-back-to-the-13th-century-corroborate-the-treatises-statements-that-abortio/
Wanted to highlight this fantastic piece that I accidentally left off the thread the first time around. Dinner's article is superb (and she has a forthcoming book that will be of interest to #legalhistorians) https://twitter.com/TheDocketLHR/status/1536773548991254529
One final article for the special issue is Dr. Deborah Dinner's powerful reflections on the problem of originalist history in Dobbs.
Special issue which includes Mireille J. Pardon,
@SaraMcDougall2 & Karl Shoemaker, “Abortion Was a Crime”? Three Medievalists respond to “English cases dating all the way back to the 13th century corroborate the treatises’ statements that abortion was a crime". #MedievalTwitter https://twitter.com/TheDocketLHR/status/1536756743350411265