American Journal of Legal History 59:3 (September 2019) is out. Here’s the TOC:
‘To Stay the Murderer’s Hand and the Rapist’s Passions, and for the Safety and Security of Civil Society’: The Emergence of Racial Disparities in Capital Punishment in Jim Crow New Orleans
Jeffrey S Adler
American Treatise Writers and the Nineteenth-Century Debate on Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s Sister in Transatlantic Context
Angela Fernandez
The Development of the ‘Modern’ Criminal Law of Evidence in English Law and in France, Germany and the Netherlands: 1750–1900
R G Bloemberg
Book Reviews
Martha S. Jones, Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America
Kyle G Volk
Whitman, James Q. Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
Joseph A Ross
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War
Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan
--Dan Ernst