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18 December 2024

BOOK: Juan JIMÉNEZ CASTILLO, La Monarquía Indiana de Carlos II en la encrujiada. La reconfiguración del poder virreinal en el Perú (1674-1689) [Avisos de Flandes, ed. Werner THOMAS; 21] (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024), 578 p. ISBN 9789462704084 [OPEN ACCESS]

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(image source: Leuven University Press ) Abstract: At the end of the 17th century, Spanish America was not yet in the throes of the crisis t...
17 December 2024

JOURNAL: Journal of the History of International Law/Revue d'histoire du droit international XXVI (2024), nr. 3 (Oct)

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  (image source: Brill) British Utilitarianism after Bentham: Nineteenth-Century Foundations of International Law Part II (Robert Schütze) ...
16 December 2024

REMINDER: Van Caenegem Prize 2025 (articles published or accepted in 2023, 2024)

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The  European Society for Comparative Legal History  (ESCLH) President and Executive Council are pleased to present the  ESCLH Van Caenegem ...
13 December 2024

ADVANCE ARTICLE: Fernanda PIRIE, "Global Comparative Law?" (Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2024) [OPEN ACCESS]

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(image source: OUP ) Abstract: The Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Law, edited by Matthias Siems and Po Jen Yap, continues recent calls to...

BOOK: Stéphan GEONGET & Bruno MÉNIEL (dir.), Littérature et droit, du Moyen Âge à la période baroque: le procès exemplaire [Rencontres; 233] (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2024 [2008]), ISBN 978-2-406-08940-7

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  (image source: Classiques Garnier ) Abstract: Centré sur la question de l'exemplarité du procès, cet ouvrage invite à réfléchir sur le...

CALL: PhD and MA Scholarships in Historical Studies (CEU, Vienna) [DEADLINE 4 FEB 2025]

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(image source: Wikimedia Commons ) Central European University (CEU) in Vienna offers an array of graduate programs dedicated to the multi...

BOOK: Martin LÖHNIG & Stephan WAGNER (Hrsg.), Deutscher Bund und nationale Rechtseinheit [Mitteleuropäisches Zivilrecht; 3] (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024), ISBN 9783161640995, € 89

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  (image source: Mohr Siebeck ) Abstract: In its last years, the German Federation (Deutscher Bund) laid the foundations for national legal ...
12 December 2024

BOOK: Laurence BADEL, Eckart CONZE & Axel DRÖBER (eds.), The Paris Peace Conference of 1919. The Challenge of a New World Order (New York: Berghahn Books, 2024), 338 p. ISBN 978-1-80539-807-3, 107 GBP

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  (image source: Berghahn ) Abstract: For more than a century, the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 has remained an object of historical scrut...

DATABASE: Droz Histoire du Droit [OPEN ACCESS]

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  (image source: Droz ) The renowned Swiss publisher Droz has created an open access database of scholarship on legal history, containing ov...
11 December 2024

JOURNAL: Journal on European History of Law 2024/2 [OPEN ACCESS]

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  Journal on European History of Law 2/2024   ARTICLES Tony Murphy: Social Ordering and Welfare Conditionality, or Benevolence and Oppor...

BOOK PRESENTATION: presentazione del volume di Valerio Gigliotti 'Civitas iuris. Diritto comune e contemporaneità' (Torino, 16 DEC 2024)

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ADVANCE ARTICLE: Ciara KENNEFICK, "Roman Law on the Just Price in Nicolaus Bernoulli’s Mathematics" (Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 2024) [OPEN ACCESS]

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  (image source: OUP ) Abstract: It must be rare that discoveries which transform mathematics also undermine legal rules. Yet this is precis...

BOOK: Kenneth W. MACK & Jacob KATZ COGAN (eds.), In Between and Across: Legal HIstory Without Boundaries (Oxford: OUP, 2024), ISBN 9780197680995

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  (image source: OUP ) Abstract: The boundaries between the history of law and the history of everything else are quite blurry nowadays. Whe...
10 December 2024

BOOK: Wim BLOCKMANS, The Voice of the People? Political Participation before the Revolutions (London: Routledge, 2024), 458 p. ISBN 9781003202066

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  (image source: Routledge ) Abstract: Over the last two centuries, Europe has developed various forms of political representation from whic...

BOOK: Osmo PEKONEN & Johan C.-E. STÉN, Les Lumières en Finlande. Travaux et jours de dix-sept savants finlandais [L'Europe des Lumières; 91] (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2024), 236 p. ISBN 9782406171256, € 78

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  (image source: Classiques Garnier ) Abstract: En Finlande, les Lumières ont été accueillies comme une mode culturelle et l’université du p...

PhD SCHOLARSHIP: Megaconferences and Climate Governance: a Sociolegal History of the 1992 Earth Summit (Paris: CNRS, DEADLINE 15 JAN 2025)

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(image source: Wikimedia Commons ) The Centre de Théorie et d'Analyse du Droit  (Paris-Nanterre/CNRS) has a vacancy for a fulltime PhD s...
09 December 2024

ADVANCE ARTICLE: Karin VAN LEEUWEN, "The Hague Academy as a Space of Encounter: How Scelle’s 1933 Teachings on National Courts Landed in the Netherlands " (European Journal of International Law 2024) [OPEN ACCESS]

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  (iamge source: EJIL ) First paragraph: Nowadays, the legacy of the Hague Academy is mostly defined through the Recueil des Cours, whose mo...
06 December 2024

BOOK: Jaakko SIVONEN, Monarchy, Nation and the Common Good: Patriotism in Prussia, 1756–1806 [History of European Political and Constitutional Thought, eds. Erica BENNER, László KONTLER & Mark SOMOS;13] (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2024), ISBN 9789004710818, € 151,25

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  (image source: Brill ) Abstract: This book provides a history of Prussian state patriotism from the Seven Years’ War (1756–1763) until the...
05 December 2024

BOOK: Johan OLSTHOORN, Hobbes on Justice [The History and Theory of International Law, eds. Nehal BHUTA, Francesca IURLARO, Anthony PAGDEN & Benjamin STRAUMANN] (Oxford: OUP, 2024), ISBN 9780198867982, 100 GBP

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  (image source: OUP ) On the book: Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is widely regarded as one of the most important political thinkers in the West...

BOOK: Heinz MOHNHAUPT, Privilegien als Sonderrechte in europäischen Rechtsordnungen vom Mittelalter bis heute Studien zur europäischen Rechtsgeschichte; 343] (Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 2024), XXI + 970 p. ISBN 978-3-465-04624-0

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  (image source: MPILHLT ) Abstract: Nowadays, the term ‘privileges’, part and parcel of political and societal discourse in countries world...
04 December 2024

CONFERENCE RECORDINGS: 40 years of Centre d'Histoire Judiciaire (Lille: Lille University/CNRS, 15 NOV 2024)

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  (image source: CHJ ) The Centre d'Histoire Judiciaire  (Université de Lille/CNRS) celebrated its fortieth anniversary on 15 November 2...

CALL FOR PAPERS: W G Hart Workshop 2025: Regulating the Global Movement of Care (London: Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, 11-12 JUN 2025); DEADLINE 6 JAN 2025

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Call for Papers   W G Hart Workshop 2025   Regulating the Global Movement of Care   Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, London...