JOURNAL: New Issue of the Law & History Review

Vol. 31.1 of the Law & History Review is now available. The following 3 articles can be freely accessed until February 28th 2013

Kristin A. Collins, Petitions Without Number: Widows' Petitions and the Early Nineteenth-Century Origins of Public Marriage-Based Entitlements 

Kimberley A. Reilly, Wronged in Her Dearest Rights: Plaintiff Wives and the Transformation of Marital Consortium, 1870-1920 

Alfred L. Brophy, Introducing Applied Legal History

Other articles in this issue: 

Roman J. Hoyos, "The People's Privilege: The Franking Privilege, Constituent Correspondence, and Political Representation in Mid-Nineteenth Century America"

Jeffery A. Jenkins and Justin Peck, "Building Toward Major Policy Change: Congressional Action on Civil Rights, 1941–1950"

Robert Tennyson, "From Unanimity to Proportionality: Assent Standards and the Parliamentary Enclosure Movement"

James Oldham and Su Jin Kim, "Arbitration in America: The Early History"

To read the articles, please click here

Source: Legal History Blog