Law and History Review 39:2 (May 2021) is out on Cambridge Core.
In This Issue
Forum: Rethinking the Criminalization of Childbirth: Infanticide in Premodern Europe and the Modern Americas
Introduction: Rethinking the Criminalization of Childbirth: Infanticide in Premodern Europe and the Modern Americas
Sara McDougall, Felicity Turner
Pardoning Infanticide in Late Medieval France
Sara McDougall
Turning a Blind Eye: Infanticide and Missing Babies in Seventeenth-Century Geneva
Sara Beam
The Contradictions of Reform: Prosecuting Infant Murder in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Felicity Turner
Maternity and Morality in Puebla's Nineteenth-Century Infanticide Trials
Nora E. Jaffary
Forum: Originalism and Legal History: Rethinking the Special Relationship
Written Constitutionalism, Past and Present
Jonathan Gienapp
Does Originalism Have a Natural Law Problem?
John Mikhail
Review Essays
Taking the Discipline of Law Seriously: Twining, Arthurs, and Histories of Academic Lawyers
Susan Bartie
Government, Money, and the Law
Nick Mayhew
Book Reviews
Stephanie Elsky, Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. x, 224. $70.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780198861430).
Lorna Hutson
Kathryn D. Temple, Loving Justice: Legal Emotions in Blackstone's England, New York: New York University Press, 2019. Pp. viii, 265. $45.00 hardcover (ISBN 9781479895274).
Emily Ireland
Christopher Casey, Nationals Abroad: Globalization, Individual Rights, and the Making of Modern International Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 316. $39.99 cloth (ISBN 9781108784047); Nimisha Barton, Reproductive Citizens: Gender, Immigration, and the State in Modern France, 1880–1945, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. 306. $54.95 cloth (ISBN 9781501749681).
Dina Gusejnova
R.W. Kostal, Laying Down the Law: The American Legal Revolutions in Occupied Germany and Japan, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp 472. $55.00 cloth (ISBN 9780674052413).
Eric M. Adams
Eric H. Reiter, Wounded Feelings: Litigating Emotions in Quebec, 1870-1950, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. Pp. 504. $33.71 paperback (ISBN 9781487526986).
Tina Piper
Francis Lieber and G. Norman Lieber, To Save the Country: A Lost Treatise on Martial Law, edited with an introduction by Will Smiley and John Fabian Witt, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2019. Pp. 352. $55.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780300222548).
John M. Collins
--Dan Ernst
