FID Recht - RechtsgeschichteTiny Tiny RSS/23.04-0578bf802 (Unsupported)2026-07-29T22:08:57+00:00https://vifa-recht.de/feed/50tag:vifa-recht.de,2026-09-05:/297769Editorial boardVolume 47, Issue 2, August 2026, Page I-II.]]>Volume 47, Issue 2, August 2026, Page I-II . ]]>2026-07-13T04:27:01+00:00http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/flgh20?af=R2026-07-13T04:27:01+00:00The Journal of Legal Historytag:vifa-recht.de,2026-09-05:/297774Off the Record: Legal Shorthand and George Treby’s Middle Temple Case Notes, 1667–72.]]>. ]]>2026-06-22T08:58:06+00:00Andrea McKenzie Department of History, University of Victoria, Victoria, CanadaAndrea McKenzie is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria, Canada.http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/flgh20?af=R2026-06-22T08:58:06+00:00The Journal of Legal Historytag:vifa-recht.de,2026-09-05:/297773‘One Standard for All’?: James Murdoch and the Procurators (Scotland) Act 1865.]]>. ]]>2026-06-17T03:38:29+00:00John Finlay School of Law, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UKJohn Finlay has been researching the history of the legal profession in Scotland for over 30 years and has published widely in this field, including several monographs. These include Ghttp://www.tandfonline.com/loi/flgh20?af=R2026-06-17T03:38:29+00:00The Journal of Legal Historytag:vifa-recht.de,2026-09-05:/297772Diffusion and Confusion: Marriage Law in Colonial New South Wales, 1788–1861.]]>. ]]>2026-06-16T12:51:31+00:00Luke Taylor Lincoln Alexander School of Law, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, CanadaLuke Taylor is an Assistant Professor at Lincoln Alexander School of Law, Toronto Metropolitan University. He holds an SJD and LLM from the University ohttp://www.tandfonline.com/loi/flgh20?af=R2026-06-16T12:51:31+00:00The Journal of Legal Historytag:vifa-recht.de,2026-09-05:/297771Transformation of Property Relations in the Kingdom of Poland: Pre-Factory Private Property.]]>. ]]>2026-06-16T12:51:01+00:00Dorota Wiśniewska Faculty of Law and Administration, Department of Research on the Development of State and Law, University of Lodz, Lodz, PolandDorota Wiśniewska holds a postdoctoral degree in legal science. She is employed as a university profhttp://www.tandfonline.com/loi/flgh20?af=R2026-06-16T12:51:01+00:00The Journal of Legal Historytag:vifa-recht.de,2026-09-05:/297770Colonial Patents: Industrial Property Law and Nationality in Mandate Palestine.]]>. ]]>2026-06-15T08:35:00+00:00Michael D. Birnhack Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, IsraelMichael D. Birnhack is the Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University.http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/flgh20?af=R2026-06-15T08:35:00+00:00The Journal of Legal Historytag:vifa-recht.de,2026-09-05:/297767‘Towards the Attainment of Complete Uniformity’ in Private International Law: The Unratified Anglo–Italian Foreign Judgments Convention of 1887Volume 47, Issue 2, August 2026, Page 218-273.]]>Volume 47, Issue 2, August 2026, Page 218-273 . ]]>2026-06-15T04:41:32+00:00Christopher Jenkins Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt, GermanyDr. Christopher Jenkins is a Researcher in the Department of European and Comparative Legal History at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/flgh20?af=R2026-06-15T04:41:32+00:00The Journal of Legal Historytag:vifa-recht.de,2026-09-05:/297768Histories of Legal Literature: A Hundred Years of English-Language ScholarshipVolume 47, Issue 2, August 2026, Page 310-312.]]>Volume 47, Issue 2, August 2026, Page 310-312 . ]]>2026-05-18T02:16:22+00:00Ian Williams University of Oxfordhttp://www.tandfonline.com/loi/flgh20?af=R2026-05-18T02:16:22+00:00The Journal of Legal Historytag:vifa-recht.de,2026-09-05:/297766Local Arbitration Courts in Revolutionary Ireland, 1917–1920Volume 47, Issue 2, August 2026, Page 274-309.]]>Volume 47, Issue 2, August 2026, Page 274-309 . ]]>2026-05-08T01:40:44+00:00Thomas Mohr School of Law, University College Dublin, Dublin, IrelandThomas Mohr, Associate professor at the School of Law, University College Dublin. President of the Irish Legal History Society.http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/flgh20?af=R2026-05-08T01:40:44+00:00The Journal of Legal Historytag:vifa-recht.de,2026-09-05:/297764Seeping into Prosecution: The Men Who Spoke for the King in Early Tudor EnglandVolume 47, Issue 2, August 2026, Page 153-185.]]>Volume 47, Issue 2, August 2026, Page 153-185 . ]]>2026-04-13T11:32:37+00:00Margaret McGlynn Department of History, Western University, London, CanadaMargaret McGlynn is a professor of history and vice-provost (academic planning, policy and faculty) at Western University, London, Ontario, Canada. Most of her research inhttp://www.tandfonline.com/loi/flgh20?af=R2026-04-13T11:32:37+00:00The Journal of Legal Historytag:vifa-recht.de,2026-09-05:/297765The Irrevocability of Jus Quaesitum Tertio: Stair and the Roman-Dutch LawVolume 47, Issue 2, August 2026, Page 186-217.]]>Volume 47, Issue 2, August 2026, Page 186-217 . ]]>2026-04-13T03:03:48+00:00Jonathan Ainslie School of Law, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UKJonathan Ainslie is a Lecturer in Private Law at the University of Aberdeen, with a research focus on the influence of the civilian legal tradition on contemporary issues in Scohttp://www.tandfonline.com/loi/flgh20?af=R2026-04-13T03:03:48+00:00The Journal of Legal Historytag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-27:/29688051 Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 1 (2026)Title Page]]>Title Page]]>2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00http://heinonline.org2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Giornale di Storia Costituzionaletag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-27:/29688151 Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 3 (2026)Table of Contents]]>Table of Contents]]>2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00http://heinonline.org2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Giornale di Storia Costituzionaletag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-27:/29688251 Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 7 (2026)The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Compa...]]>The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Comparative Perspective: Introduction]]>2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Car, Ronaldhttp://heinonline.org2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Giornale di Storia Costituzionaletag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-27:/296883Are There Common National Traditions regarding the Responsibility of the Executive Power? 51 Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 17 (2026)The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Compa...]]>The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Comparative Perspective: Fondamenti]]>2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Lacche, Luigihttp://heinonline.org2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Giornale di Storia Costituzionaletag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-27:/296884E Pluribus Unum. The Vocation for Unity and the Search for a Strong Government: Responses to the Crisis of Parliamentarism after WWI 51 Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 33 (2026)The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Compa...]]>The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Comparative Perspective: Fondamenti]]>2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Gregorio, Massimilianohttp://heinonline.org2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Giornale di Storia Costituzionaletag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-27:/296885Robert Redslob's Interpretation of Parliamentary Government 51 Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 51 (2026)The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Compa...]]>The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Comparative Perspective: Fondamenti]]>2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Olivetti, Marcohttp://heinonline.org2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Giornale di Storia Costituzionaletag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-27:/296886The 'Presidentialization' of the Weimar Executive in View of the Balance between Social Forces 51 Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 69 (2026)The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Compa...]]>The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Comparative Perspective: Esperienze]]>2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Car, Ronaldhttp://heinonline.org2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Giornale di Storia Costituzionaletag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-27:/296887From Absolute Parliamentarianism to Absolute Presidentialism: The Executive Power in France (1914-1962) 51 Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 89 (2026)The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Compa...]]>The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Comparative Perspective: Esperienze]]>2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Quinart, Emilienhttp://heinonline.org2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Giornale di Storia Costituzionaletag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-27:/296888In Search of a Strong Government: From the First Austrian Democratic Constitution to the Second Constitutional Reform (1920-1929) 51 Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 105 (2026)The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Compa...]]>The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Comparative Perspective: Esperienze]]>2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Lagi, Sarahttp://heinonline.org2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Giornale di Storia Costituzionaletag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-27:/296889The Prime Minister in the Hot Seat. The Executive Power in the United Kingdom from World War I to the Aftermath of World War II 51 Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 125 (2026)The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Compa...]]>The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Comparative Perspective: Esperienze]]>2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Slijkerman, Diederickhttp://heinonline.org2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Giornale di Storia Costituzionaletag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-27:/296890The Design of a "Strong Government" in Interwar Spain 51 Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 145 (2026)The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Compa...]]>The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Comparative Perspective: Esperienze]]>2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Sarasola, Ignacio Fernandezhttp://heinonline.org2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Giornale di Storia Costituzionaletag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-27:/296891The Elastic Confines of Governments in Democracies: Nordic Constitutional Forms and Discourses of 20th Century 51 Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 175 (2026)The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Compa...]]>The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Comparative Perspective: Esperienze]]>2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Michalsen, Daghttp://heinonline.org2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Giornale di Storia Costituzionaletag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-27:/296892A Stronger Leadership within a Delicate Balance of Powers: Executive Leadership, Professional Administration, and Democracy in Woodrow Wilson's Theory and Practice 51 Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 189 (2026)The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Compa...]]>The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Comparative Perspective: Esperienze]]>2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Bon, Cristinahttp://heinonline.org2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Giornale di Storia Costituzionaletag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-27:/296893Intermittent Constitutionalism: The Problem of Government between Liberal Italy and Fascism 51 Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 211 (2026)The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Compa...]]>The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Comparative Perspective: Ininerari]]>2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Fioravanti, Marcohttp://heinonline.org2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Giornale di Storia Costituzionaletag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-27:/296894"The Need for the Abuse of Power Has Given Rise to the Vice of Abuse". Lodovico Mortara and the Issue of the "Judicial Review" of Decree-Laws in Liberal Italy 51 Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 231 (2026)The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Compa...]]>The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Comparative Perspective: Ininerari]]>2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Serpico, Francescohttp://heinonline.org2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Giornale di Storia Costituzionaletag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-27:/296895"Strong Government" in the Constituent Processes of France and Italy: Ideas, Projects, and Resistance 51 Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 249 (2026)The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Compa...]]>The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Comparative Perspective: Ininerari]]>2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Maestri, Gabrielehttp://heinonline.org2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Giornale di Storia Costituzionaletag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-27:/296896The Story of an Oxymoron: Parliamentary Regime with Government Dominance 51 Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 267 (2026)The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Compa...]]>The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Comparative Perspective: Ininerari]]>2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Di Cosimo, Giovannihttp://heinonline.org2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Giornale di Storia Costituzionaletag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-27:/296897Il Tiranno 51 Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 279 (2026)The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Compa...]]>The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Comparative Perspective: Librido: In the Foreground]]>2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00De Benedictis, Angelahttp://heinonline.org2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Giornale di Storia Costituzionaletag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-27:/296898La Constitution Economique. Enquete sur les Rapports entre Economie, Politique et Droit 51 Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 283 (2026)The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Compa...]]>The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Comparative Perspective: Librido: In the Foreground]]>2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Giachetti, Fulviahttp://heinonline.org2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Giornale di Storia Costituzionaletag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-27:/296899Paolo Grossi, Mario Sbriccoli, Carteggio (1962-2004) 51 Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 287 (2026)The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Compa...]]>The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Comparative Perspective: Librido: In the Foreground]]>2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Omaggio, Vincenzohttp://heinonline.org2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Giornale di Storia Costituzionaletag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-27:/296900Storia Giuridica del Decennio Francese nel Regno di Napoli. La Costruzione di uno Stato 51 Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 293 (2026)The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Compa...]]>The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Comparative Perspective: Librido: In the Foreground]]>2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Gentile, Saveriohttp://heinonline.org2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Giornale di Storia Costituzionaletag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-27:/296901Sixteen Reading Proposals 51 Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 297 (2026)The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Compa...]]>The 'Strong Government': Building and Legitimizing Executive Power in the Twentieth Century. A Comparative Perspective: Librido]]>2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00http://heinonline.org2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Giornale di Storia Costituzionaletag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-27:/29690251 Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 317 (2026)Authors]]>Authors]]>2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00http://heinonline.org2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Giornale di Storia Costituzionaletag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-27:/29690351 Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 319 (2026)Abstracts]]>Abstracts]]>2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00http://heinonline.org2026-08-27T03:08:02+00:00Giornale di Storia Costituzionaletag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-11:/295486From Claudette Colvin’s expectation to bus desegregation in Browder v GayleAbstractIn March 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to move from her seat on a Montgomery bu...]]>
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In March 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to move from her seat on a Montgomery bus, setting in motion a chain of proceedings that culminated in the Supreme Court’s summary affirmance in Gayle v Browder. This article reconstructs a legal history of rights formation that begins from Colvin’s persistent expectation of equal treatment under the law and traces how that expectation moved through a dense procedural field and complex socialmovement infrastructure before stabilizing as a Fourteenth Amendment right in the desegregation judgment. The article situates this account within rights-consciousness scholarship, treating rights as historically situated, bottom-up constructions, but specifies normative expectations—expectations that resist adaptation to disappointment and are legible in contemporaneous records—as its core unit of analysis. Using arrest records, trial papers, pleadings, hearing transcripts, judicial orders, organizational minutes, correspondence, interviews, and contemporary media reports, it tracks how Colvin’s expectation moved through juvenile proceedings, movement strategy, and federal procedure into a ruling that dismantled Montgomery’s bus-segregation regime and helped shape the constitutional law of public transport, while analysing the legal and procedural mechanics deployed to obstruct desegregation and the strategic choices that overcame them. It concludes by sketching a legal-history method for studying rights formation that keeps grassroots expectations and their procedural trajectories in view, and uses that vantage to clarify how movement strategy, judicial practice, and the emergence of constitutional rights are linked in struggles against racial discrimination in public space. While consistent with accounts that emphasize the interaction of litigation and protest, the article’s central focus is on how grassroots expectations of constitutional right at the ‘bottom’ of a legal order can, in rare but illuminating cases, come to be stabilized at its apex.]]>2026-07-09T00:00:00+00:00http://academic.oup.com/ajlh2026-07-09T00:00:00+00:00American Journal of Legal Historytag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-11:/295487‘Crack’: Immigration, national security, and the war on drugs in the USAAbstractThis article investigates how the crack cocaine epidemic and the legislation it provoked res...]]>
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This article investigates how the crack cocaine epidemic and the legislation it provoked reshaped American governance, particularly at the intersection of criminal justice, immigration policy, and national security. It argues that the Anti-Drug Abuse Acts of 1986 and 1988 did more than escalate punitive drug enforcement; they reimagined the relationship between citizenship and the state. Drawing on a rich archive of congressional records, federal reports, and media accounts, the article shows how policymakers constructed racialized narratives around ‘criminal aliens’—especially Jamaican and Dominican traffickers—to justify aggressive policing, surveillance, and deportation. These figures served as political instruments, collapsing the boundaries between domestic crime and foreign threat. By embedding immigration enforcement within drug interdiction efforts and domestic policing, lawmakers institutionalized a legal framework that yoked criminal and immigration systems together with American foreign policy.]]>2026-06-30T00:00:00+00:00http://academic.oup.com/ajlh2026-06-30T00:00:00+00:00American Journal of Legal Historytag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-11:/295488Subversion and the Special Tribunal for the Defence of the State in Fascist Italy, 1927–8AbstractIn 1925, Italian Fascist Prime Minister Benito Mussolini began to transform his government i...]]>
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In 1925, Italian Fascist Prime Minister Benito Mussolini began to transform his government into a dictatorial regime, cracking down on political opposition and anti-Fascist activities, which were referred to as ‘subversion’. The 1926 ‘ultra-Fascist’ Law No 2008 established a new criminal court, the Special Tribunal for the Defence of the State, to deal with subversive activities that were deemed to constitute political crimes against the regime’s security. Although a large body of academic literature on the Special Tribunal continues to grow, the details of the subversion cases that came before it, and what they can reveal about anti-Fascist activity and the regime’s response, have received limited attention. Based on an extensive study of Special Tribunal decisions in subversion cases during the first two years of its operation (1927–8), this article builds a systematic analysis of what subversive activities involved, how they were charged and tried, what the Special Tribunal decided, and how its judgments can be understood in the overall context of Fascism. The article provides a framework for analysing political judgments by focusing on their form and functions, and shows how the Fascist regime’s reliance on the ritual of a trial and legal judgment had performative, repressive, propagandistic, and educative dimensions that ultimately underscore Fascism’s falsification of legality.]]>2026-06-17T00:00:00+00:00http://academic.oup.com/ajlh2026-06-17T00:00:00+00:00American Journal of Legal Historytag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-11:/295489The Branzburg myth: how secrecy and law distort history and misinform policyAbstractThis is an article about how secrecy and law distort history and misinform policy. Beginning...]]>
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This is an article about how secrecy and law distort history and misinform policy. Beginning in the 1960s and culminating with the Supreme Court’s 1972 ruling in Branzburg v Hayes, litigation and debate over the reporter’s privilege established the expectation that journalists resist subpoenas, warrants, and informal requests for evidence. However, archival research and records obtained in an Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request reveal that journalists cooperated with federal criminal investigations after Branzburg. The case, symbolic of the rise of adversarial journalism, did not end compliance, but submerged it. Secrecy—overclassification of records, non-disclosure of grand jury proceedings, and the confidentiality of subpoenas—has allowed a narrow understanding of journalists’ role in a democracy to dominate case law, historical and legal scholarship, and public debate. Secrecy and law distorted the public record, then history, as salient moments of conflict disproportionately shaped collective memory, which misinformed scholarship and policy debate on news subpoenas. The hidden tradition of journalists cooperating with local, federal, and international authorities is, this article concludes, an argument for protecting press freedom.]]>2026-04-21T00:00:00+00:00http://academic.oup.com/ajlh2026-04-21T00:00:00+00:00American Journal of Legal Historytag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-11:/295490Professional authority and institutional integrity: men’s suits for sexual misconduct defamation in nineteenth-century AmericaAbstractSince the #MeToo movement, prominent men accused of sexual misconduct have frequently brough...]]>
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Since the #MeToo movement, prominent men accused of sexual misconduct have frequently brought defamation claims against their accusers and media companies that have published the allegations. This trend has generated a wealth of debate and scholarship, but little research has placed such cases within a historical context. This article seeks to fill this gap in legal history by examining men’s sexual misconduct defamation claims in the nineteenth-century United States. By analysing numerous court records and connecting them with shifts in work patterns and models of masculinity, it argues that men’s claims for sexual misconduct defamation were increasingly connected to the rise of the professions during the nineteenth century. Whereas ideas of ‘male fortitude’ in the face of sexual accusations were central to judicial adjudication of rural men’s claims—particularly farmers—courts took the vindication of the sexual reputations of urban, professional men more seriously. Such scandals had the capacity not just to insult or wound individual feelings or threaten bonds of community or kin, but they could imperil respect for the emerging professions and undermine the authority of social institutions. Scandals involving professors could erode the repute of universities, reports about doctors could undermine respect for medicine, rumours about lawyers could breed distrust of the courts, and news articles about teachers could threaten the education system. Defamation cases show that men’s sexual transgressions mattered most when they questioned the authority of professional expertise and republican projects of other men.]]>2026-04-02T00:00:00+00:00http://academic.oup.com/ajlh2026-04-02T00:00:00+00:00American Journal of Legal Historytag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-11:/295491‘But the original intent of the Constitution would be restored’: Catholic legal thought and the emergence of First Amendment originalism, 1947–87AbstractSeveral scholars of twentieth-century American legal history have recently argued that origi...]]>
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Several scholars of twentieth-century American legal history have recently argued that originalism—a method of constitutional interpretation commonly associated with the conservative legal movement—first emerged as southern Republicans and conservative Democrats (many of whom were evangelical Protestants) reacted to the US Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v Board of Education. But southern opponents of Brown were not the only figures to have self-consciously introduced originalist ways of thinking about the Constitution into the nation’s legal vocabulary at mid-century. Indeed, this article reveals that, nearly a decade before Brown, Catholics hundreds of miles away from Selma and Little Rock similarly sought to convince their neighbours that the Constitution ought to be understood according to the intentions of its eighteenth-century drafters (or, when appropriate, its nineteenth-century amenders). And importantly, they did so not to undermine the Civil Rights Movement, but rather to ensure that the Court’s 1947 decision in Everson v Board of Education would not stymie the American Catholic Church’s efforts to obtain public financial assistance for parochial schools.In encouraging jurists, scholars, and voters to understand the First Amendment’s Religion Clauses through the lens of founding-era history, post-Everson Catholics became as responsible as anyone outside of the Supreme Court for originalism’s decisive (re)shaping of the Religion Clauses during the next half-century. But this ultimately proved troubling to some as the conservative legal movement became ascendant in the 1980s. From the perspective of these critics of First Amendment originalism, God’s natural law, not Thomas Jefferson’s metaphorical ‘wall of separation’ between church and state, should determine the First Amendment’s meaning. In concluding, this article therefore suggests that Catholics initially turned to originalism pragmatically to vindicate their background philosophical and theological conceptions of religious liberty, but increasingly came to realize that originalism—to the extent that it relied on positivist assumptions about the nature of individual rights—was alone inadequate to do so.]]>2026-03-31T00:00:00+00:00http://academic.oup.com/ajlh2026-03-31T00:00:00+00:00American Journal of Legal Historytag:vifa-recht.de,2026-08-11:/295492Jury riders as jury power in twentieth-century EnglandAbstractThis article argues that the relatively obscure practice of jury riders and recommendations ...]]>
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This article argues that the relatively obscure practice of jury riders and recommendations reveals a historic political role for juries which has hitherto gone unnoticed. In short, riders mattered as a community intervention into the work of both judges and of local government.This article draws on over 1000 verdicts, both in criminal courts and in coroners’ courts, from England and Wales, 1900 to 1999. In recent work unearthing the existence of jury riders, Coen and Howlin principally sought to reveal what was said by juries in addition to their formal verdicts; this article focuses on what these observations were for.This shift in focus reveals that the type of jury had significance not only for what the jury said, but also for how it was received. Where a coroner’s jury offered a rider, it was a means for informal rebuke, with no definite, automatic outcome (although local authorities often felt compelled to respond). There was power in this sort of pronouncement, but it was often quite diffuse. Riders from trial juries were very different. Here, the statement added to the verdict was much more likely to be a formal recommendation for mercy. Trial juries were probably less free to set out their views in detail, but their words had more formal power, feeding directly (albeit only normally as part of a wider picture) into the sentencing decisions of judges. But while the precise power of a jury’s words changed from one context to another, it was a consistently powerful, often political intervention.]]>2026-01-15T00:00:00+00:00http://academic.oup.com/ajlh2026-01-15T00:00:00+00:00American Journal of Legal Historytag:vifa-recht.de,2026-07-29:/294627Stanley N. Katz, Scholar and Citizen: An Introduction 44 Law & Hist. Rev. 339 (2026)Forum: Stanley N. Katz, Scholar and Citizen]]>Forum: Stanley N. 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