Monday, August 1, 2016

LHR 34:3

Volume 34, Issue 3 (August 2016) of Law and History Review is out.

New Light on the Sedition Act of 1798: The Missing Half of the Prosecutions
Wendell Bird

Merchant Courts, Arbitration, and the Politics of Commercial Litigation in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
Christian R. Burset

Accommodating Nazi Tyranny? The Wrong Turn of the Social Democratic Legal Philosopher Gustav Radbruch After the War
Douglas G. Morris

Judicial Independence in British North America, 1825–67: Constitutional Principles, Colonial Finances, and the Perils of Democracy
Jim Phillips

Fragmenting the Nation: Divisible Sovereignty and Travancore's Quest for Federal Independence
Sarath Pillai

The “Rare Infliction”: the Abolition of Flogging in the Indian Army, circa 1835–1920
Radhika Singha

Book Reviews

Daniel R. Coquillette and Bruce A. Kimball, On the Battlefield of Merit: Harvard Law School, the First Century, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 688. $39.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0674967663).
Andrew Porwancher

Terri L. Snyder, The Power to Die: Slavery and Suicide in British North America, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. xiv, 240. $45.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0-226-28056-1).
Sally E. Hadden

Lisa Tetrault, The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848–1898, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Pp. 296. $34.95 cloth (ISBN 978-1-4696-1427-4).
Lisa Hogan

Nancy Woloch, A Class By Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s–1990s, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. Pp. ix, 337. $39.50 cloth (ISBN 978-0691-002590)
Amy G. Richter

Susan Pedersen, The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 592. $34.95 cloth (ISBN 9780199730032).
Umut Özsu