Magna Carta: The View from Hong Kong

[We have the following announcement.] The three Hong Kong law schools will be organising a joint conference on Saturday, 31 October 2015 to ...

Stephens on Maori Constitutionalism

Māmari Stephens, Victoria University of Wellington , has posted “To Work Out Their Own Salvation”: Māori Constitutionalism and the Quest for...

Sir Geoffrey Palmer on NZ's ACC

Perhaps because one of my first sights upon disembarking in Auckland was someone in a Georgetown tee shirt, I was not immediately struck by ...

Weekend Roundup

Just published is a much-expanded second edition of The Complete Bill of Rights: The Drafts, Debates, Sources, & Origins (Oxford Univer...

Kushner on "Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice"

We missed this January 2015 release from Harvard University Press: Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice , b...

Haley on the Communitarian Conservatism of Japanese Judges

John Owen Haley, University of Washington School of Law , has posted The Role of Courts in 'Making' Law in Japan: The Communitarian ...

Jaffe's "Ironies of Colonial Governance"

James Jaffe, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater , has published Ironies of Colonial Governance: Law, Custom and Justice in Colonial India ...

Comparative Legal History - new content online

The journal Comparative Legal History has posted some new content online (with full text available to subscribers): Articles Finding, shari...