Benton to Vanderbilt

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

Anglicization of Law and through Law

[We have the following announcement.] 2015-16 Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History: Anglicization of Law and through Law: Ear...

Georgetown International History Seminar, 2015-16

[We have the following announcement.] The Georgetown University Institute for Global History and the Mortara Center for International Studie...

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 ...

Sunday Book Roundup

Over at HNN there is a review of The Limits of Optimism: Thomas Jefferson's Dualistic Enlightenment  by Maurizio Valsania (UVA Press). ...

New Release: "Patriation and Its Consequences"

Just released is  Patriation and its Consequences: Constitution Making in Canada , ed. Lois Harder and Steve Patten (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2...

CFP: Ocean of Law

[Via H-Law , we have the following CFP.] Ocean of Law: Intermixed Legal Systems across the Indian Ocean World, 1550-1950, Leiden University,...

New Release: Stockreiter, "Islamic Law, Gender and Social Change in Post-Abolition Zanzibar"

New from Cambridge University Press: Islamic Law, Gender and Social Change in Post-Abolition Zanzibar (April 2015), by Elke Stockreiter (Un...