Sunday Book Roundup

In Dissent,  Amy Dru Stanley reviews Alex Gourevitch's From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in th...

Jewish Legal Theorists in the 19th and 20th Centuries

[Via H-Law we have the following announcement.] The Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at Leipzig University is planni...

Funk Reviews Compton's "Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution"

Kellen R. Funk , a Yale JD and a doctoral candidate in history at Princeton University , has posted Shall These Bones Live? Property, Plural...

The Pope’s Other Jobs: Judge and Lawgiver

[There’s no topping Mike Widener, Rare Book Librarian & Lecturer in Legal Research at the Yale Law School, for timeliness.   Here, via H...

Porter, "Their Lives, Their Wills: Women in the Borderlands, 1750–1846"

New from Texas Tech University Press: Their Lives, Their Wills: Women in the Borderlands, 1750–1846 , by Amy M. Porter (Texas A&M Unive...

Liberals and Religious Conscience

With the courts still grappling with challenges to the contraceptive mandate of the Affordable Care Act, conscience-based objections will li...

Weekend Roundup

Guest blogger Sarah Barringer Gordon 's new research on church and state in early America has the enthusiastic endorsement of the Econom...

Tate on Episcopal Power and Royal Jurisdiction in Angevin England

We have already noted the publication of Studies in Canon Law and Common Law in Honor of R.H. Helmholz , ed. Troy L. Harris (Robbins Collect...