Last summer we published the call for submissions for a new legal historical periodical, the Journal for Digital Legal History. It has since published its first issue. Here is the journal's self-description:
Legal history is traditional in its methods and techniques of research. This is not necessarily a problem, but researchers applying digital tools to legal sources need a place to go. The Journal for Digital Legal History ("DLH") wants to showcase both new methods and the application thereof, by including elaborate graphics, datasets, links, Jupyter Notebooks, metadata and tutorials. As such, the DLH does not limit itself to traditional formats and offers a platform for innovative research, to reach out to colleagues interested in novel approaches and methodologies.
And here is the TOC for the first issue:
Book reviews
Max Kemman, Trading Zones of Digital History
Femke Gordijn
Jennifer Guiliano, A primer for Teaching Digital History. Ten Design Principles (Duke 2022)
Christel Annemieke Romein
Short notices
To commemorate shared pasts. Legislation related to enslavement and multicultural relations in the Dutch West Indies colonies, c. 1670 – c. 1870
Marijcke Schillings and Henk-Jan van Dapperen
A Database of Early Modern Police Ordinances.
Karl Härter
Collateral Councils – Collaterale Raden - Conseils collatéraux of the Low Countries (1531-2031)
Hans Cools, Vincenzo De Meulenaere, Marie-Charlotte le Bailly, Christel Annemieke Romein, Nicolas Ruys, René Vermeir and Monique Weis
Roman Law MOOC
Jean-François Gerkens
--Dan Ernst
