Friday, November 8, 2019

LHR 37:4

Law and History Review 37:4 (November 2019) has just been published online.  Here’s the TOC:

Original Articles

Of “Masculine Tyranny” and the “Women's Jury”: The Gender Politics of Jury Service in Third Republic France
Sara L. Kimble

Disqualified Witnesses between Tannaitic Halakha and Roman Law: The Archeology of a Legal Institution
Orit Malka

Invited Articles

The Political Functions of (Premodern) Courts and Procedure and Questions of Comparative Method
Amalia D. Kessler

Disqualified Witnesses Between Tannaitic Halakha and Roman Law: A Response to Orit Malka
Paul J. Du Plessis

Roman and Jewish Law: Looking for Interaction in all the Right Places
Christine Hayes

Book Reviews


Rohit De, A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. 312. $40.97 hardcover (ISBN: 9780691192550).
Arvind Elangovan

Xiaoping Cong, Marriage, Law, and Gender in Revolutionary China, 1940–1960, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 346. $31.99 paper (ISBN 9781316602614).
Yue Du

Jennifer Altehenger, Legal Lessons: Popularizing Laws in the People's Republic of China, 1949–1989, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. 406. $49.95 hardcover (ISBN 9780674983854).
Glenn Tiffert

Taisu Zhang, The Law and Economics of Confucianism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. 319. $116.00 hardcover (ISBN 9781107141117).
Maura Dykstra

Susanne Pohl-Zucker, Making Manslaughter: Process, Punishment and Restitution in Württemberg and Zurich, 1376–1700, Leiden: Brill, 2017. Pp. x, 335. $134.00 hardcover (ISBN: 9789004218215).
Harriet Rudolph

Nikolay Koposov, Memory Laws, Memory Wars: The Politics of the Past in Europe and Russia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xvi, 310. $89.99 hardcover (ISBN 9781108419727); $29.99 paper (ISBN 9781108410168); $24.00 eBook (ISBN 9781108330978).
Ian Cram

Jennifer Pitts, Boundaries of the International: Law and Empire, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. 304. $45.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780674980815).
Alexander Arnold

Kimberly M. Welch, Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Pp. 328. $39.95 hardcover (ISBN 9781469636436); $29.99 e-book (ISBN 9781469636450).
Allison Madar

Edward B. Rugemer, Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. 384. $39.95 hardcover (ISBN 9780674982994).
H. Robert Baker

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. Pp. 320. $30.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780300218664).
Julia W. Bernier

Anders Walker, The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. Pp. 304. $30.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780300223989).
Brandon Jett

--Dan Ernst