Showing posts with label debt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label debt. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Bell's "Imprisonment in Early Modern England"

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Imprisonment in Early Modern England: Politics, Debt and the Origins of a Carceral Society (Cambridge University Press), by Richard Thomas ...
Thursday, May 14, 2026

The National Bankruptcy Archives

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[We've recently had our attention drawn to this important collection at the Biddle Law Library of the Penn Carey Law School.  DRE] In Oc...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

JAH 112:2

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[The latest issue of the Journal of American History , 112:2 (September 2025), includes much legal history.  Here’s the JAH ’s summary .  ...
Thursday, April 4, 2024

JAH 110:4

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[ Journal of American History 110:4 (March 2024) is of unusual interest for legal historians.  (I expect to assign the first article when I...
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Roberts on the Concept of Forced Labor

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Christopher M. Roberts, Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law , has posted The Historical Development of the Concept of Forced Labo...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

AJLH 63:2

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The American Journal of Legal History has published its 63:2 (June 2023) issue.  It is devoted to the symposium "Status in Ancient and...
Friday, September 29, 2023

Walsh on the Assignment of Choses in Action in England and Australia

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Xavier P. Walsh , a recent honors graduate of Sydney Law School and, more recently, Tipstaff in the Equity Division of the Supreme Court of ...
Friday, June 23, 2023

Telfer and Torrie on the Saskatchewan Moratorium Act

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Thomas G. W. Telfer, Western University Faculty of Law , and Virginia Torrie, Affiliated Researcher, Desautels Centre for Private Enterprise...
Thursday, May 25, 2023

Telfer and Torrie Discuss "Debt and Federalism"

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[We have the following announcement of Four landmark cases in bankruptcy and insolvency law in Canada , an episode in Witness to Yesterday, ...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Torrie on Depression-Era Canadian Farm Debt Relief

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[I have previously copped to a poorly hidden imperialist motive in my interest in comparative history, my tendency to value of a nation’s h...
Thursday, April 28, 2022

Swain and Fairweather on Usury Law in New South Wales

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Warren Swain and Karen Fairweather , University of Auckland , have posted To Your Marrowbones All: Loan Transactions and the Law in 19th Ce...
Friday, July 24, 2020

Kadens on Twyne's Case

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Take it from me, folks: the research underpinning this transporting case study of debt in early modern England is astonishing.  Emily Kadens...
Monday, May 11, 2020

American Predatory Lending and the Global Financial Crisis

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American Predatory Lending and the Global Financial Crisis , a website with data visualizations, oral histories, and policy analyses, is now...
Thursday, January 16, 2020

Boyd, Ramsay and Ali on Imprisonment for Debt in Colonial Victoria

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Jodie Boyd, RMIT University , and Ian Ramsay and Paul Ali , Melbourne Law School , have posted "Contrary to the Spirit of the Age...
Friday, March 30, 2018

Thank You, Anne Fleming

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We wanted to thank Anne Fleming, Georgetown Law , for guestblogging on LHB this month and to collect her interesting and thought-provoking p...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Muir on Debt in 18th-c. Nova Scotia

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This past fall, James Muir , University of Alberta, published Law, Debt, and Merchant Power: The Civil Courts of 18th Century Halifax wit...