EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE LEGAL HISTORY

The ESCLH aims to promote comparative legal history and seeks affiliation with individuals and organisations with complementary aims.

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19 June 2026

BOOK: Bill DAVIES & Morten RASMUSSEN (eds.), The History of European Union Law. Constitutional Practice, 1950 to 1993 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026), ISBN 9781009673891, € 122,55

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  (image source: CUP ) Abstract: This formative period of EU law witnessed an intense struggle over the emergence of a constitutional practi...

CLH ARTICLE: Ralf MICHAELS, Comparative law today – tomes, themes, trends (Comparative Legal History, XIV (2026), nr. 1: June) [OPEN ACCESS]

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(Image source:  Taylor&Francis ) Abstract:  This essay surveys recent themes and trends in comparative law scholarship, with a particula...
18 June 2026

BOOK: Giuseppe MECCA and Salvatore MURA (eds.), Stato e benessere in Italia dall’Ottocento a oggi (Roma: Carocci Editore, 2026). ISBN: 9788829036493, pp. 320, € 35,00

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(Source: Carocci editore ) Abstract: Il volume raccoglie i risultati di una ricerca multidisciplinare sul ruolo dello Stato nella promozione...

BOOK: Daniel ALLEMANN, Empires of Slavery: Rights and Power in the Early Modern Iberian World [Max Planck Studies in Global Legal History of the Iberian Worlds, ed. Thomas DUVE; 7] (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, 2026), [OPEN ACCESS]

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  (image source: Brill ) Abstract: Enslavement was central to the early modern Iberian empires. No one at the time seriously questioned its ...
17 June 2026

SYMPOSIUM: Ancient Criminal Law: A Global Perspective (Youtube, crimlrev.net, 24 JUN 2026)

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(iamge source: MCRL ) Join us for an international workshop featuring contributors to our forthcoming  Modern Criminal Law Review   Special ...
16 June 2026

BOOK: Horatia MUIR WATT & Geoffrey SAMUEL, Producing Legal Knowledge. Comparative Methods, Models and Schemes (Cheltenham: E. Elgar, 2026), 266 p. ISBN 9781035318469, 105 GBP

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  (image source: Elgar ) Abstract: This thought-provoking book opens up a distinctive and original framework of analysis of the relationship...
15 June 2026

ADVANCE ARTICLE: Maya MARK, "Civil Disobedience in Defense of Democracy: Menachem Begin’s Struggle Against Emergency Laws in Israel, 1948–1954" (Law and History Review) [OPEN ACCESS]

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(image source: CUP )  Abstract: This study uncovers a previously overlooked chapter in the historiography of civil disobedience: Menachem Be...
12 June 2026

BOOK: Thomas DUVE & Tamar HERZOG (eds.), Historia del Derecho de América Latina en Perspectiva Global [Historia del Derecho en América Latina, 1ª Edición] (México: Tirant lo Blanch, 2026), 680 p., ISBN 9788410959361

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(image source: Tirant ) Abstract: Este libro es el resultado de un esfuerzo colectivo de investigadores de América Latina, Europa y los Esta...

BOOK: Benjamin SCHONTHAL, Courts, Constitutions and Karma. Buddhism, Law and the Practices of Legal Pluralism in Sri Lanka [Cambridge Studies in Law & Society, eds. Mark FATHI MASSOUD & Jens MEIERHENRICH] (Cambridge: CUP, 2026)

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(image source: CUP )  Abstract: Although rarely acknowledged, Buddhist monastics are among the most active lawmakers and jurists in Asia, op...

JOURNAL: Comparative Legal History XIV (2026), nr. 1 (Jun)

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(Image source:  Taylor&Francis ) FROM THE EDITORIAL ( David Schorr & Agustín Parise ) [...] As is appropriate for this spring season...
11 June 2026

SSRN PAPER: Ross E. DAVIES, "A Wig Without a Home: The Comedic Wisdom of Sir Frederick Pollock" Green Bag 2s XXIX (2025)

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(image source: Liberty Fund )   Abstract: Frederick Pollock (1845-1937) was the Green Bag’s kind of scholar. The first half of this paper co...
10 June 2026

BOOK: Anna O. LAW, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship. African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants (Oxford: OUP, 2026), 304 p. ISBN 9780197660096, 19,99 GBP

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  (image source: OUP ) Abstract: Since the late nineteenth century, the US federal government has enjoyed exclusive authority to decide whet...
09 June 2026

BOOK: Pierre ALLORANT & Walter BADIER, La Dissolution. De Napoléon à Macron [Épures, ed. Pierre-Henry FRAGNE] (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2026), 144 p. ISBN 9791041310647, € 10

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  (image source: Presses universitaires de Rennes ) Abstract: La dissolution a souvent été présentée comme un outil nécessaire au contrôle d...

SSRN PAPER: Alli ORR LARSEN & Thomas MCSWEENEY, "Medieval Treatises and the Judicial Search for a Useable Past" (Willam & Mary Law School Research Paper nr. 09-514)

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  (image source: SSRN ) Abstract: The Supreme Court’s recent turn to history and tradition has prompted a renewed interest in the far distan...
08 June 2026

BOOK: Ignacio DE LA RASILLA, Jiangyu WANG & Congyan CAI (eds.), Histories of International Law in China All Under Heaven? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026), 688 p. ISBN 9780198888345, 170 GBP

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  (image source: OUP ) Abstract: Histories of International Law in China: All Under Heaven? offers a groundbreaking exploration of China...
05 June 2026

BOOK: Benoît CARRÉ, Distribuer l’argent du roi au XVIIIe siècle. La monarchie dévoilée (Villeneuve d'Asq: Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2025), ISBN 978-2-7574-4486-3 [OPEN ACCESS]

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(image souce: OpenEdition )   Abstract: Under the Ancien Régime, the finances of the King of France were shrouded in secrecy until the famou...
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