The last few issues of the Chronicle of Higher Education have featured many exciting new books in legal history. Here are a few, along with the brief descriptions from the Chronicle:
True Stories of Crime in Modern Mexico, edited by Robert Buffington and Pablo Piccato (University of New Mexico Press; 276 pages; $27.95). Essays on how accounts of murder, infanticide, kidnapping, and other acts have been used to make sense of Mexican society at different periods of its history.
White But Not Equal: Mexican Americans, Jury Discrimination, and the Supreme Court, by Ignacio M. Garcia (University of Arizona Press; 239 pages; $55 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). A study of Hernandez v. Texas (1954), a murder case that led to a landmark ruling regarding racial bias in jury selection and the rights of Mexican-Americans.
Frontier Constitutions: Christianity and Colonial Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines, by John D. Blanco (University of California Press; 372 pages; $49.95). Topics include the interdependence of Spanish Christianity and indigenous traditions.
Jury, State, and Society in Medieval England, by James Masschaele (Palgrave Macmillan; 271 pages; $89.95). Covers the mid-12th to the end of the 14th centuries, a period that saw the emergence of the Common Law.
