Monday, October 30, 2023

AJLH: 63:1

The American Journal for Legal History 63:1 (March 2023) is now fully published on line:

The best answer? Justice Nelson’s concurrence in Dred Scott v. Sandford
William B Meyer

‘I Laid Earl and Clementine on a Chair and Whipped Them’: Child Murder and Criminal Justice in the Jim Crow South
Jeffrey S Adler

Limping Marriages: Race, Class, and the Rise of Domicile-Based Divorce Jurisdiction in the British Empire
Priyasha Saksena

Book Reviews

Tamika Y.  Nunley.  The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023), pp  243, $27.95 (paperback). ISBN 978-1-4696-7312-7

Terri L Snyder

Russell Sandberg, A Historical Introduction to English Law: Genesis of the Common Law
( Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press,  2023), pp.  xiii +280. £90 (hardcover). ISBN 9781107090583

William Eves

 --Dan Ernst