Monti on the Italian Business Firm in the Late 19th Century

Annamaria Monti, Bocconi University Department of Law , has posted Form, Size, 'Governance'. Remarks on Italian Late 19th-Century Co...

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...

Using the Past: Romanists, Totalitarianism, and Its Legacy

[We have the following announcement.] Programme of the “ Using the past: Romanists, totalitarianism and its legacy ” conference Villa Lante ...

Kadens on Reputation in Premodern Credit Networks

Emily Kadens, Northwestern University School of Law , a former LHB Guest Blogger , has posted Pre-Modern Credit Networks and the Limits of R...

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...

Resta and Zeno-Zencovich on Italy's "Racial Laws"

Giorgio Resta , Università degli Studi di Bari , Law Faculty, and Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich University of Rome III   Department of Law, have p...

de la Rasilla del Mora on British International Lawyers and the Spanish Civil War

Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral, Brunel Law School , has posted " In the General Interest of Peace": British International Lawyers...

Jockusch and Finder, eds., "Jewish Honor Courts"

New from Wayne State University Press: Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaus...

Legal History Review 83:1-2

The latest issues of the Legal History Review , also known as the Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis and the Revue d'Histoire du Droit...

The JEV-Fellowship for European Administrative History

[We have the following announcement of a research fellowship in the field of European Administrative History.] At the end of 2012 Prof. Dr. ...

A Symposium on Moyn on Christian Human Rights

Over at The Immanent Frame is a symposium on Samuel Moyn’s Personalism, Community, and the Origins of Human Rights ,  in Human Rights in th...

Lesaffer on Europe's Classical Law of Nations

Randall Lesaffer, Tilburg Law School , has posted The Nature and Sources of Europe's Classical Law of Nations : The jurisprudence of the...

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...

New Release: Empire by Treaty

Out recently from the Oxford University Press is Empire by Treaty: Negotiating European Expansion, 1600-1900 , edited by Saliha Belmessous ,...

Criminal Law and Emotions in European Legal Cultures

[Via H-Law, we have word of the of the following conference, sponsored by the Center for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for H...

Whitman on the Presumption of Innocence in the Us and Europe

James Q. Whitman, Yale Law School , has posted Presumption of Innocence or Presumption of Mercy?: Weighing Two Western Modes of Justice , wh...

Rape In Wartime

From CNN - Listening to the Victims : It began as a headache. Then her throat started to feel tight. A dull pain welled in her chest and her...