Wednesday, December 24, 2025

LHR 43:4

Law and History Review 43:4 (November 2025) is now published online.

British Imperial Constitutional Law and the Zionist Campaign against the Legislative Council in Mandatory Palestine
Maya Kreiner

The Twentieth-Century Origins of the Medieval Lex Mercatoria Thesis
Jake Dyble

General Will or Public Order? The Debate on Criminal Justice Policy in Early Colonial Himalaya, 1815–1816
Irit Ballas, Arik Moran

How Kantian is Kelsen’s Early Theory of International Law?
Wojciech Engelking

“The Problem Can Be Solved Only by Those Imbued with a Socialist Sense of Justice!”: Social Conflict and the Lower Courts in the German Democratic Republic
Ville Erkkilä, Luisa Gries

Legislating the Progressive Arab Society: State Authority and Social Rights in the 1964 Interim Constitutions of Egypt, Iraq, and Syria
Relli Shechter

The Collapse of the Civil Rights Coalition: Congress and the Politics of Antibusing Legislation, 1966–86
Jeffery A. Jenkins, Justin Peck

“The Rich Uncle from America”: Transnational Inheritance Transfers between the United States, Germany, and Russia, 1840s–1980s
Jürgen Norbert Dinkel

Between Law and Politics: Islamic Judges in the South Indian Littoral, 1808–1885
Saumyashree Ghosh
Original Article

Witnesses, Judges: A Revolution Untold
Orit Malka

Lucretia (and Lucia) and the Medieval Canonists: Guilt, Consent, and Chastity in the Early Canonistic Jurisprudence of Rape: Submission for Law and History Review
Atria A. Larson

Fines and the Common Bench, 1218–1226
Douglas R. Chapman

Conspiracy, Crime, and Conflict in the Court of Star Chamber
K.J. Kesselring

“To Each Their Grievance Is Bitter and Unbearable”: Petitions, Autocracy, and the Rule of Law in Eighteenth-Century Russia
Alison K. Smith

Taken Not Given: The End of Slavery in Britain
Simon P Newman

“Distressing the Distressed”: Rent Distraint in Early Republic New York
Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan

Incapable of Managing His Estate: Habitual Drunkards and the Expansion of Guardianship in the Nineteenth-Century United States
David Korostyshevsky

Alien Acts in the Age of Emancipation: Mobility Control and Executive Power in the British Caribbean, 1820s–1830s
Jan C. Jansen

Ideas With(out) Consequences?: The Natural Law Institute and the Making of Conservative Constitutionalism During the Cold War, 1947–1951
Dennis J. Wieboldt

The Appeal of Religious Law: Jurisdictional Politics and Modern State Formation in the Gulf Sheikhdoms, ca. 1950–2000
Alexandre Caeiro


Review Essay

Past as Present: State-ifying the Laws of War
Yilin Wang

Book Reviews

Lauren Benton, They Called it Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 304. £35 hardcover (ISBN 9780691248479)
Boyd van Dijk

Allen D. Boyer and Mark Nicholls, The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 333. $180.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780367509934).
Matthew Steilen

Henry Ansgar Kelly, Criminal-Inquisitorial Trials in English Church Courts: From the Middle Ages to the Reformation Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2023. Pp. x, 
R. H. Helmholz

Alex Thompson, British Law and Governance in Treaty Port China 1842–1927: Consuls, Courts and Colonial Subjects Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024. Pp. 180. €104.00 hardcover (ISBN 9789463720397). doi: 10.1515/9789048557097-004
Ivan Lee

Cuilan Liu. Buddhism in Court: Religion, Law, and Jurisdiction in China. Hardback. Published: 29 August 2024. 288 Pages. ISBN: 9780197663332.£78.00.
Paul R. Katz

Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2024. Pp.360. Paperback 32$. ISBN: 9781503637740
Ilkay Yilmaz

Taisu Zhang, The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation: Belief Systems, Politics, and Institutions Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 422, $120.00 hardcover (ISBN 9781108995955).
Meng Zhang

Nadeera Rupesinghe, Lawmaking in Dutch Sri Lanka. Navigating Pluralities in a Colonial Society, Amsterdam: Leiden University Press, 2023. Pp. 316. € 66,00 paperback (ISBN 9789087283759).
Pouwel van Schooten

--Dan Ernst