Wednesday, June 22, 2022

LHR 40:2

Law and History Review 40:2 (May 2022) is now available online:

Using Topic-Modeling in Legal History, with an Application to Pre-Industrial English Case Law on Finance
Peter Grajzl, Peter Murrell

Rebellion, Sovereignty, and Islamic Law in the Ottoman Age of Revolutions
Will Smiley

The Surveillance State and the Surveillance Private Sector: Pathways to Undercover Policing in France and the United States
Jacqueline E. Ross

Religion, Law, and the Dynamics of Intellectual Transmission: Weimar Jurisprudence among Religious Socialists in Israel
Alexander Kaye

Heart Transplants, Legislating Death, and Disruptive Anti-Apartheid Advocacy
Meredith Terretta

Book Reviews


Sara M. Butler, Pain, Penance, and Protest: Peine Forte et Dure in Medieval England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xiv, 474. $135.00 hardcover (ISBN 9781316512388)
Henry Summerson

Tom Johnson, Law in Common: Legal Cultures in Late-Medieval England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xii, 324. $105.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780198785613)
Anthony Musson

Catherine L. Evans, Unsound Empire: Civilization & Madness in Late-Victorian Law. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021. Pp. 304. $65.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780300242744)
Katherine D. Watson

Christopher W. Schmidt, Civil Rights in America: A History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp.250. $114.95 hardcover (ISBN 9781108426251); $39.95 paperback (ISBN 9781108444972)
Sophia Z. Lee

--Dan Ernst