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05 December 2025

VACANCIES: 3 PHD students and 1 POSTDOC [Centre for Legal History of India] (Frankfurt: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, DEADLINE 3 FEB 2026)

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(image source: MPILHLT ) Presentation: The Centre for Legal History of India (CLHI) in the Department European and Comparative Legal History...

VIDEO: Quentin VERREYCKEN (FRS-FNRS/UCLouvain) on the history of war crimes (RTL, Les Visages de la Recherche)

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Dr. Quentin Verrecyken (permanent researcher of the FRS-FNRS at UCLouvain has been interviewed on Belgian commercial television (RTL) on h...

BOOK: Aniceto MASFERRER DOMINGO (ed.), The Making of Criminal Law. The Role of Case Law in the 19th and 20th Centuries (London: Routledge, 2025), 380 p. ISBN 9781003633082

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(image source: Taylor & Francis ) Abstract: The separation of powers produced by the Enlightenment period reinforced the myth of the “pe...

BOOK REVIEW: William BARBEY on Elgar encyclopedia of comparative law edited by Jan M. Smits, Jaakko Husa, Catherine Valcke and Madalena Narciso (Comparative Legal History, XIII (2025), nr. 2)

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(Image source: Taylor&Francis ) Reviewing a collective work, an encyclopaedia no less, is not an easy task. How do you start your readin...
04 December 2025

BOOK: Edern DE BARROS, Condillac et Mably. Deux frères théoriciens d'une démocratie tempérée [Politique de l'Esprit] (Paris: Mare & Martin, 2025), 510 p. ISBN 978-2-36222-137-8, € 45

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  (image source: Mare & Martin ) Abstract: Condillac (1714-1780) et Mably (1709-1785) sont deux frères dont l’influence sur la Révolutio...
03 December 2025

VACANCIES (1 POSTDOC, 1 PHD): "History of Ethics and Law of Responding to Suffering" (Virpi MÄKINEN) University of Helsinki/Faculty of Theology (DEADLINE 17 DEC 2025)

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(image source: Helsinki University ) The Research Council of Finland funded centre of excellence in  Meliorist Philosophy of Suffering (lea...

BOOK: Mark Philip BRADLEY (eds.), The Cambridge History of America and the world (Cambridge: CUP, 2022 [paperback 2025]), ISBN 9781108419208

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(image source: CUP ) Abstract: The Cambridge History of America and the World offers a transformative account of American engagement in the ...
02 December 2025

BOOK: Marjoleine KARS, Michael A. MCDONNEL & Andrew M. SCHOCKET (eds.), The Cambridge History of the American Revolution (Cambridge: CUP, 2025), 3 vol. ISBN 9781108496629, 400 USD

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  (image source: CUP ) Abstract: Those interested in the American Revolution-whether it be history buffs, undergraduates, teachers, or speci...
01 December 2025

CALL: Positions on the Editorial Board (Comparative Legal History; DEADLINE 15 JAN 2026)

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    Journal Comparative Legal History   Call for Positions on the Editorial Board   Deadline: 15 January 2026     The Euro...

SEMINAR: Catherine VOLPILHAC-AUGER, "Montesquieu et les "exilés"" (Séminaire Parlement(s) et cours souveraines, 12 DEC) [HYBRID]

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  (image source: Parlementdeparis dot hypotheses ) Séminaire Parlement(s) et cours souveraines La prochaine séance du séminaire “ Parlement(...

SERIES: Émigrés européens - des récits oubliés/Auswandern! Deutsche Schicksale aus drei Jahrhunderten (arte.tv)

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  (image source: arte ) Arte devotes a series of three episodes to migration, including the legal aspects. Abstract (French): C’est l’histoi...

INTERVIEW: François WAQUET, "Le droit romain à l’origine de la légitimité politique occidentale" (Paris: Collège de France)

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  (image source: Collège de France ) Introduction: Comment les monarques européens ont-ils légitimé leur pouvoir pendant des siècles ? Au cœ...

VACANCY: University assistant predoctoral [Chair for Globalisation and Legal Pluralism, Department of Legal and Constitutional History] (Wien: Universität Wien, DEADLINE 21 DEC 2025)

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  (image source: Uni Wien ) The University of Vienna is a community of almost 11,000 individuals, including approximately 7,700 academic sta...
28 November 2025

BOOK: Ulrike LUDWIG & Quentin VERREYCKEN (eds.), The Power to Pardon in Medieval and Early Modern Christian Europe [Einheit & Vielfalt im Recht/Legal Unity & Pluralism, eds. Ulrike LUDWIG & Peter OESTMANN, 6] (Wien: Böhlau, 2025), ISBN 978-3-412-53386-1 [OPEN ACCESS]

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  Abstract: In medieval and early modern Christian Europe, the power to exercise pardon over rigor of justice was one of the strongest manif...
27 November 2025

BOOK: Nicolas BELL-ROMERO, The University of Cambridge in the Age of Atlantic Slavery (Cambridge: CUP, 2025), ISBN 9781009652544, 35 GBP [OPEN ACCESS]

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  (image source: CUP ) Abstract: In this powerful history of the University of Cambridge, Nicolas Bell-Romero considers the nature and exten...
26 November 2025

BLOG: New Global Legal History Blog ANT.E (Areas – Norms – Time, Entangled) (Wien: Universität Wien)

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 We received the following announcement: We are happy to announce the launch of our blog ANT.E at ante-blog.univie.ac.at. ANT.E is Areas ...

ENCYCLOPEDIA: Alain COLLIGNON & Dirk LUYTEN, "Henri Rolin" (BelgiumWII)

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  (image: Henri Rolin as President of the Belgian Senate; source: Belgian Senate ) Alain Collignon and Dirk Luyten (both Belgian State Archi...

BOOK: Michela BARBOT, Les règles de la valeur. Les prix et l'estimation au prisme du droit (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle) [Études d’histoire du droit et des idées politiques, ed. Florent GARNIER; 36] (Toulouse: Presses de l'Université Toulouse Capitole, 2025), 235 p. ISBN 9782379281396 [OPEN ACCESS]

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(image source : OpenEdition ) Abstract: Comment les prix et la valeur étaient-ils appréhendés par les juristes de l’époque moderne ? Et quel...
25 November 2025

BOOK: Lauri MÄLKSOO, Russia, the Soviet Union, and Imperial Continuity in International Law (Oxford: Oxford university press, 2025), ISBN 978019895593

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  (image source: OUP ) Abstract: This book, a sequel to the author’s Russian Approaches to International Law (OUP, 2015), presents the histo...
24 November 2025

ARTICLE: Paolo AMOROSA, "Before Integration through Law: Cappelletti and Calamandrei on Judicial Review as Social Justice, 1944–1957", European Constitutional Law Review XXI (2025), nr. 3 [OPEN ACCESS]

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(image source: CUP ) Abstract: The intellectual legacy of Cappelletti and Calamandrei – envisioning judicial review as an instrument of soci...

BOOK: Georgios GIANNAKOPOULOS, The interpreters. British internationalism and empire in southeastern Europe, 1870-1930 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2025), ISBN 9781526160133, 85 GBP

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  (image source: Manchester University Press ) Abstract: The book offers a new interpretation of the cultural and intellectual exchanges bet...

JOURNAL COMPARATIVE LEGAL HISTORY: David Schorr (Tel Aviv) Appointed New Editor

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    Journal Comparative Legal History   David Schorr Appointed New Editor The European Society for Comparative Legal History (ESCLH) is ...