UPDATE: COMPARATIVE LEGAL HISTORY - THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE LEGAL HISTORY

The first issue of Comparative Legal History (CLH), the official publication of the European Society for Comparative Legal History (ESCLH), has now been published.

We're very pleased with our first issue. We're also happy to note that members of the ESCLH receive a free subscription to CLH!

The journal:

is a peer-reviewed international and comparative review of law and history. Its articles explore both internal legal history (doctrinal and disciplinary developments in the law) and external legal history (legal ideas and institutions in wider contexts). Firmly rooted in the complexity of the various Western legal traditions worldwide, it also provides a forum for the investigation of other laws and law-like normative traditions around the globe. Scholarship on comparative and trans-national historiography, including trans-disciplinary approaches, is particularly welcome. 

CLH has an exceptional staff and international board and is published by the forward-thinking, helpful folks at Hart Publishing.

The preface introducing the journal is available here; a sample article is available here.

Spread the word, become a member, and ask your library to stock us!!

- Seán Patrick Donlan, Editor

The first issue includes:

Articles

The Challenges of Comparative Legal History

David Ibbetson

American Responses to German Legal Scholarship: From the Civil War to World War I

David M Rabban

The Political Offence and the Safeguarding of the Nation State: Constitutional Ideals, French Legal Standards and Belgian Legal Practice (1830-1870)

Bram Delbecke

Sex, Crime and the Law: Russian and European Early Modern Legal Thought on Sex Crimes

Marianna Muravyeva  

Review Article

Comparative and Economic Approaches to Law: A Tale of Wilful Misunderstanding?

Jaakko Husa

Book Reviews

Manlio Bellomo, Inediti della giurisprudenza medievale

Reviewed by Emanuele Conte

Alejandro Guzmán-Brito, Codificación del Derecho Civil e Interpretación de las Leyes: Las normas sobre interpretación de las leyes en los principales Códigos civiles europeo-occidentales y americanos emitidos hasta fines del siglo XIX

Reviewed by MC Mirow

Turan Kayaoglu, Legal Imperialism: Sovereignty and Extraterritoriality in Japan, the Ottoman Empire and China

Reviewed by Zülâl Muslu

Mia Korpiola (ed), Regional Variations in Matrimonial Law and Custom in Europe, 1150-1600

Reviewed by Richard Mc Mahon

MC Mirow, Florida's First Constitution, the Constitution of Cádiz: Introduction, Translation, and Text

Reviewed by Peter L Reich

Anthony Musson and Chantal Stebbings (eds), Making Legal History: Approaches and Methodologies

Reviewed by Adelyn LM Wilson