Wednesday, March 3, 2021

AJLH 60:4

The American Journal of Legal History 60: 4 (December 2020) is now published online:

The Anti-Republican Origins of the At-Will Doctrine    
Lea VanderVelde
 
Capturing Profit from Disaster: The Assets Company Ltd and the Afterlife of the City of Glasgow Bank    
Sean O’Reilly
 
Where Did ‘Human Dignity’ Come from? Drafting the Preamble to the Irish Constitution    
Christopher McCrudden
 
From Disputation Hall to High Office: Swedish Students’ Legal Dissertations at German and Dutch Universities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries    
Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen
 
Book Reviews
 
The Historical Logics of Work Accident Law: Nate Holdren, Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and the Law in the Progressive Era    
 John Fabian Witt
 
Thomas J. McSweeney, Priests of the Law: Roman Law and the Making of the Common Law's First Professionals    
John Hudson
 
Michael A. Schoeppner, Moral Contagion: Black Atlantic Sailors, Citizenship, and Diplomacy in Antebellum America    
Andrew Hammann
 
Emily Whewell, Law Across Imperial Borders: British Consuls and Colonial Connections on China’s Western Frontiers, 1880–1943    
Eric Schluessel
 
Leandra Ruth Zarnow, Battling Bella: The Protest Politics of Bella Abzug    
Alison Lefkovitz
 
 Mary Ziegler, Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present    
Karissa Haugeberg