Friday, November 7, 2025

LHR 43:1

Law and History Review 43:1 is now available online.  Here is the TOC:

Articles

Context Matters: Understanding Why Medieval Legislators Chose to Regulate Women's Pregnant Bodies
Sara M. Butler

Kenya's Emergency Powers: Legal Continuities in the Post-Colonial State, 1959–1969
Kyle J. Melles

Properties of Empire: Contests over the Commons on Newfoundland's French Shore, 1763–83
Arianne Sedef Urus

Absence of Talion and Tort Law in Early Imperial China (221BCE-9 CE): How Body Politic Cancelled Corrective Justice
Liang Cai

From the Poor Law to the Adoption of Children Act 1926: Another Punishment for Being Poor
Rachel Elizabeth Pimm-Smith

Carsun Chang's Jefferson: A Lost Era of Transnational Sino-American Constitutional Imagination
Jedidiah Joseph Kroncke and Haimo Li

“Up with the Brave”: Gender, Transgression and Judges’ Use of Catholic Convents in England and Ireland, 1930–1959
Máiréad Enright

Forum: Willrich’s American Anarchy

Saboteurs as State Builders
Sarah E. Igo

The Politics of Political Economy in the Industrial Age
Kyle G. Volk

Reading American Anarchy as a Legal History of Immigrants
Daniel J. Sharfstein

Response
Michael Willrich

Book Reviews

Ada Maria Kuskowski, Vernacular Law: Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xviii, 412. $125 hardcover (ISBN 978-1-009-21789-7).
Anne E. Lester

Philip Stern, Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations that Built British Colonialism Cambridge, MA and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023. Pp. 408. $35 hardcover (ISBN 9780674988125).
Mircea Raianu

Margot Canaday, Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. 312. $35.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780691205953). 
Marie-Amélie George