The publisher is an organization that disseminates scholarly and analytical legal research and commentary. Its publications include detailed explorations of legal theory, historical legal practices, and the social implications of law, often authored by academics and legal professionals. Topics covered range from the ontology of legal facts and the judicial construction of racial identities to the interpretation of historical legal practices and the role of courts and lawyers in common law. The content is aimed at advancing understanding of legal principles, history, and their application in contemporary contexts, reflecting a focus on legal scholarship and critical legal studies.
Publication soon:World Literature and Law (Marco Wan, ed., Routledge, 2027).
From the publisher’s website:The study of law and literature has become global, and now encompasses legal traditions and literary histories from across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the…
Lance Walker, Walker Law; University of Oklahoma College of Law, has published “Not a Particle of Choctaw Blood”: Samuel Caldwell’s Four Citizenship Trials, 1896-1904. Here is the abstract.
This Article recovers a case that has not been examined in…
Mark Moller, DePaul University College of Law, is publishing The Radical Whig Origins of the Horizontal Necessary and Proper Clause in volume 72 of the Villanova Law Review. Here is the abstract.
Congress makes laws necessary and proper to carry…
From Rachel Benharrousse, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Public Law and Governance, Tilburg Law SchoolWe are pleased to announce that the submission
deadline for our roundtable on Law and Literature in International Economic Law has
been extended to 17 September. We warmly invite scholars…
Albert Tan, University of Groningen Faculty of Law, has published Metaverse Realities: Governance, Virtual Property and Legal Ordering in Emerging Virtual Worlds. Here is the abstract.
Facebook’s adoption of Meta has moved the metaverse from specialist discussion into mainstream…
Dan Priel, City University of Hong Kong; Osgoode Hall Law School, has published Bentham’s Children: Intellectual Lineages in Jurisprudence. Here is the abstract.
There is a familiar intellectual line that starts with Jeremy Bentham and ends with contemporary legal…
Panagiotis Galanis, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, has published Roger Williams and Religious Liberty: Conscience, Civil Jurisdiction and the Constitutional Separation of Church and State. Here is the abstract.
Roger Williams occupies an exceptional position in the constitutional genealogy…
Vivian Grosswald Curran, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, has published Disentangling the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. It is forthcoming in the Duke Journal of Comparative & International…
Panagiotis Galanis, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, has published Religion and Nature in the Enlightenment. Here is the abstract.
The Enlightenment transformed the relationship between religion, nature and law. Nature ceased to function solely as an object of theological…
John Croucher, Macquarie University, has published The Murder at Agnes Banks: Unravelling Truth, Lies, and 19th Century Justice.
The setting for a murder that took place in the early days of the New South Wales penal colony in Australia…
