Blue on 33 Quaint and/or Appalling Trials from the New Haven Colony

Jon C. Blue has published The Case of the Piglet's Paternity: Trials from the New Haven Colony, 1639–1663 , with Weslyean University Pr...

George on the Sex Research and the Decriminalization of Sodomy

Marie-Amelie George , Associate in Law, Columbia University Law School , and ABD Yale University, has posted The Harmless Psychopath: Legal ...

Entick v. Carrington 250 Years On

Hart Publishing announces Entick v Carrington: 250 Years of the Rule of Law , edited by Adam Tomkins , John Millar Professor of Public Law a...

Manion and Careceral Culture and Working Women in Early America

We’ve seen an announcement of Capitalism, Carceral Culture, and the Domestication of Working Women in the Early American City , by Jen Mani...

Stern on the Origins of the "Reasonable Person"

Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law , has posted R. v. Jones (1703): The Origins of the "Reasonable Person," which...

La Morte nel Prisma Criminale

A notice for the conference "La morte nel prisma criminale (19th-20th centuries)" (Benevento, September 21-22, 2015) appears in th...

Benton to Vanderbilt

We missed this announcement back in February: legal historian Lauren Benton , formerly of NYU, has moved to Vanderbilt University, to serve...

Sunday Book Roundup

Ian Klaus's Forging Capitalism: Rogues, Swindlers, Frauds and the Rise of Modern Finance  (Yale University Press) is reviewed on H-Net....