JOURNAL: Law and History Review XXXVII (2019), Issue 1 (Feb)

(image source: Cambridge Core)

“Most Hevynesse and Sorowe”: The Presence of Emotions in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Court of Chancery (Merridee L. Bailey)

Married Women's Wills: Probate, Property, and Piety in Later Medieval England (Cordelia Beattie)

A Contested Inheritance: The Family and the Law from the Enlightenment to the French Revolution (Hannah Callaway)

William Johnson's Hypothesis: A Free Black Man and the Problem of Legal Knowledge in the Antebellum United States South (Kimberly Welch)

Select “Back into the Days of Slavery”: Freedom, Citizenship, and the Black Family in the Reconstruction-Era Courtroom “Back into the Days of Slavery”: Freedom, Citizenship, and the Black Family in the Reconstruction-Era Courtroom (Giuliana Perrone)

Restricting the Juror Franchise in 1920s England and Wales (Kevin Crosby)

“The Great Humanitarian”: The Soviet Union, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the Geneva Conventions of 1949 (Boyd van Dijk)

Select Innocent Children and Passive Pederasts: Sodomy, Age of Consent, and the Legal and Juridical Vulnerability of Boys in Buenos Aires, 1853–1912 Innocent Children and Passive Pederasts: Sodomy, Age of Consent, and the Legal and Juridical Vulnerability of Boys in Buenos Aires, 1853–1912 (Julia Ogden)

Review essay

The Problem of Periodization in the History of International Law (Ignacio de la Rasilla)

Book reviews

Daniel Lord Smail, Legal Plunder: Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Europe, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. xv + 326. $39.95 hardcover (ISBN 978-0-674-73728-0) (Steven Bednarski)
Stefan Jurasinski, The Old English Penitentials and Anglo-Saxon Law, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xiii, 238. $103.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1-107-08341-7). (Ingrid Ivarsen)
Paul Garfinkel, Criminal Law in Liberal and Fascist Italy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xviii + 536. $99.99 hardcover (ISBN 978-1-107-10891-2). (Mary Gibson)
Paul Finkelman, Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation's Highest Court, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. 287. $35.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780674051218). (Mark A. Graber)
Andrew W. Kahrl, Free the Beaches: The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America's Most Exclusive Shoreline, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. Pp. 376. $28.00 hardcover (ISBN: 9780300215144). (Deborah Dinner)
Tera Eva Agyepong, The Criminalization of Black Children: Race, Gender, and Delinquency in Chicago's Juvenile Justice System, 1899-1945, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Pp. 180. $90.00 hardcover (ISBN 9781469638652); $24.95 paperback (ISBN 9781469636443); $18.99 ebook (ISBN 9781469638669). (Kathryn Schumaker)
Select Hendrik Hartog, The Trouble with Minna: A Case of Slavery and Emancipation in the Antebellum North, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Pp. 208. $27.95 hardcover (ISBN 9781469640884); $19.99 ebook (ISBN 9781469640891). Hendrik Hartog, The Trouble with Minna: A Case of Slavery and Emancipation in the Antebellum North, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Pp. 208. $27.95 hardcover (ISBN 9781469640884); $19.99 ebook (ISBN 9781469640891). (Nathaniel Conley)

Read more on Cambridge Core.