The Docket 8:1-2

Volume 8, Issues 1-2 of The Docket, the companion to Law and History Review, is now online:

Sarah Gronningsater: The Rising Generation

A conversation with Sarah Gronningsater about her prize-winning book, The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom.

Marie-Amélie George: History as a Beacon of Hope

Simon Rabinovitch–Sovereignty and Religious Freedom: A Jewish History

A conversation with Simon Rabinovitch about his book, Sovereignty and Religious Freedom: A Jewish History.

Dennis Wieboldt III: Natural Law and the Study of “Conservative” Constitutionalism

Jonathan Connolly: Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation

Lauren Davis Jarnach–Negotiating the Arizona Constitution: The Role of Parliamentary Procedure in Ensuring Democratic Textual Outcomes

--Dan Ernst 

Queen Mary Sympoisum on Wheatley's "Life and Death of States"

[We have word of the first event in a new collaboration between the Selden Society and the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London, an annual symposium on a “first book” of an author in the field of “historicising jurisprudence.’” A registration page for the event is still forthcoming.  DRE.]

Historicising Jurisprudence: First Book Symposium

2025 Selected Book: Natasha Wheatley, The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty (Princeton UP, 2023)

Co-Sponsored by the Selden Society and the School of Law, Queen Mary University of London.  Co-Hosted and Co-Organised by Maks Del Mar and Michael Lobban.  30 September 2025.  Room 313, Department of Law, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Campus

2-3pm: Opening Conversation with Natasha Wheatley (Princeton), Michael Lobban (Oxford), and Maks Del Mar (QMUL)

3-3.15pm Break

3.15 - 4.45pm Panel 1 – Chaired by Isobel Roele (QMUL)
Thinking with the book: Roxana Banu (Oxford), Anat Rosenberg (IALS), and Gerry Simpson
(LSE)

4.45-5pm: Break

5pm - 6.30pm Panel 2 – Chaired by Georgios Varouxakis (QMUL)
Thinking with the book: Charlotte Johann (QMUL), Alvin Jackson (Edinburgh), and Angus
Nicholls (QMUL)

6.30pm: drinks / nibbles