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
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Galanis on Religion and Nature in the Enlightenment
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…
Croucher on The Murder at Agnes Banks
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…
Miller on Coda: The Framers, the British East India Company, and Guaranteeing a Republican Form of Government
Paul S. Miller, Loyola University School of Law, has published Coda: The Framers, the British East India Company, and Guaranteeing a Republican Form of Government. Here is the abstract.
The article takes as its starting point the debate between…
American Journal of Legal History: Call for Proposals for 2027 Special Issues
From the American Journal of Legal History:Special Issues: Call for Proposals for 2027The American Journal of Legal History is a well-established, quarterly publication covering all facets and periods of legal history. We are now accepting Special Issue proposals for 2027.Deadline:…
LCH Conference Set For May 27-28, 2027
From the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities:
2027
Annual LCH Conference to be held at University of California,
Berkeley
We are excited to announce that our Twenty-Ninth Annual
Conference will take place
…
Neacsu and Callister on From Myers to Slaughter: A Brief Theory of the Constitutionalization of Secondary Sources
Dana Neacsu, Columbia University; Barnard College, and Paul D. Callister, University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of Law, have published From From Myers to Slaughter: A Brief Theory of the Constitutionalization of Secondary Sources. Here is the abstract.
For…
Schroeder on St. George Tucker's Unlimited Common Law
Joshua J. Schroeder, Independent, has published St. George Tucker’s Unlimited Common Law as SchroederLaw Working Paper No. 115, 2026.
This Article contains the one of the most interesting research discoveries made in the process of writing a Tale of Two…
Walker on They Did Not Survive a Dinner Party: Judicial Ethics, the Osage Mineral Estate, and What Conscience Required
Lance Walker, Walker Law, PLLC; University of Oklahoma College of Law, has published They Did Not Survive A Dinner Party: Judicial Ethics, the Osage Mineral Estate, and What Conscience Required. Here is the abstract.
Under the Act of June…
van Aaken and Simsek on The Situated Universality of Emotions, Cognition, and International Law: A Biocultural Analogy
Anne van Aaken and Betül Simsek, both of the University of Hamburg Law School, have published The Situated Universality Of Emotions, Cognition, And International Law: A Biocultural Analogy. Here is the abstract.
Debates about universality are central to both…