0 NOTICE: Australasian Colonial Legal History Library

The Australasian Colonial Legal History Library is now online! For more information read the article "Digitising and Searching Australasian Colonial Legal History" by G. Greenleaf, P. Chung, A. Mowbray and B. Salter. Abstract: Australasia has a rich and complex legal history since the first European settlement, and our knowledge of legal practice and precedent in the colonies of Australasia is still developing. The Australasian Colonial Legal History Library project is an ARC-funded project being carried out by the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) since January 2012 with input from 18 legal historians from Universities across...

0 CALL FOR PAPERS: Journal of History and Cultures

The Journal of History and Cultures (JHAC) is issuing a Call for Papers for the next issue and welcomes articles on subjects in the fields of history and cultures within a broad geographic and chronological range. We are also accepting book reviews.JHAC is a peer-reviewed journal and an excellent new publishing opportunity both for postgraduates and established academics. Articles should be 5,000-7,000 words in length. We encourage articles that consider and engage with historical, cultural, political, social, and theoretical research in new and original ways. Reviews should be 750-1,000 words in length. Review essays should be in-depth engagements...

0 NOTICE: 39. Deutscher Rechtshistorikertag (Lucerne, 2-6 September 2012)

The Institute Lucernarius of the University of Lucerne (Switzerland) organizes the 39th Day of Legal Historians (Rechtshistorikertag). It will take place from the 2nd to the 6th of September 2012, for the fourth time in Switzerland and for the first time in Lucerne. The plenary opening session will begin on the 2nd of Sepember at 5:00 pm with an address by prof. Peter von Matt. More information about the program, which includes, as a novelty, a poster-session, are available here (papers in German and in Englis...

0 NOTICE: SHEAR Annual Conference (Baltimore, 19-22 July 2012)

The 2012 Society of Historians of the Early American Republic's Annual Conference starts today in Baltimore, Maryland. For more information see: http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.it/2012/07/legal-history-at-shear.h...

0 NOTICE: ESCLH Second Biennial Conference: Amsterdam 2012

One week ago, the ESCLH Second Biennial Conference on "Legal History: Definitions and Challanges" took place at the VU University Amsterdam (9-10 July). More than 100 participants, coming from 29 different countries, presented their papers on many different issues. For more information about the abstracts and to read Prof. David Ibbetson's Keynote Address ("The Challanges of Comparative Legal History"), see: http://www.rechten.vu.nl/nl/onderzoek/conferenties-en-projecten/conference-esclh/index.asp. After this great occasion of confrontation and discussion, we are looking forward to the next ESCLH Conference, which will take place at the University...

0 NOTICE: "Faire la preuve de la propriété"

The Ecole française de Rome has recently published a volume on property in the Mediterranean from the Roman Republic until the 19th century: Dubouloz et A. Ingold (ed. by), "Faire la preuve de la propriété: droits et savoirs en Méditerranée (Antiquité-Temps modernes)", École française de Rome, 2012(Collection de l'École française de Rome n°452), 2012, 342 p., ISBN:978-2-7283-0906-1, 50€List of contents:Introduction : faire la preuve de la propriété en Méditerranée. Catherine SALIOU, Épigraphie et rapports de voisinage: communis versus privatus. Lauretta MAGANZANI, L’expertise judiciaire des arpenteurs romains: ordo mensurarum et controversiae...

0 NOTICE: American Journal of Legal History's July 2012 Issue

The table of contents of the July 2012 AJLH issue (vol. 52, issue 3) is now available:Academic SAILERS: The Ford Foundation and the Efforts to Shape Legal Education in Africa, 1957-1997, by Jayanth K. Krishnan Individualization of Punishment and the Rule of Law: Reshaping the Legality in the United States and Europe between the 19th and the 20th Century, by Michele Pifferi Book ReviewsJudy E. Gaughan. Murder was Not a Crime: Homicide and Power in the Roman Republic, by Kevin WalkerGlenda Elizabeth Gilmore. Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950, by Darrell A. H. MillerEthan Greenberg....

0 NOTICE: Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law Special Issue

"The Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law provides literature which enables both the European professional and academic lawyer to grapple with the special difficulties presented by the concept of Ius commune Europaeum": http://www.maastrichtjournal.eu/content_page.aspx?contentId=150.The current issue (2012-2), guest-edited by Janwillem Oosterhuis and Emanuel van Dongen, is focused on "European Traditions – Integration or Disintegration?":Articles: Second-Rate Citizens: Junian Latins and the Constitutio AntoninianaE. Koops, p. 223The Booke of Orders of Assurances: A Civil Law Code in 16th Century LondonG. Rossi, p. 240The Revival...

0 NOTICE: International School of Ius Commune (Erice, Sicily), 5-11 October 2012

Ettore MajoranaFoundation and Centre for Scientific Culture International Schoolof Ius CommuneDirectors of theSchool: M. Bellomo – K. Pennington – O. Condorelli XXXII Course, Erice, 5-11October 2012The Legal Status of Jews and Muslims in the Ius CommuneLa condizione giuridica diEbrei e Musulmani nel diritto comuneDirector of the XXXII CourseJohn Tolan (Universityof Nantes)Sponsored by: TheItalian Ministry of Education, University and Research – Sicilian RegionalGovernment – The EuropeanResearch Council programme RELMIN: “The Legal Status of Religious Minorities inthe Euro-Mediterranean World” – Catholic University of America,...