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Spectral Legal Personality in Interwar International Law: On New Ways of Not Being a State by Wheatley, Natasha

“…That spirits and gods, devils and idols, should be endowed with legal rights and enjoyments is again a practice as common as it seems to be ancient. Perhaps…”
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Creating a Common Law of Slavery for England and its New World Empire by Brewer, Holly

“…The current historical consensus is that English common law was somewhat confused, but that coerced servitude was legal in England before 1772, and certainly…”
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Originalism and the Law of the Past by Baude, William, Sachs, Stephen E.

“…Originalism has long been criticized for its “law office history” and other historical sins. But a recent “positive turn” in originalist thought may help make…”
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Before Equal Protection: The Fall of Cross-Dressing Bans and the Transgender Legal Movement, 1963–86 by Redburn, Kate

“…Scholars are still unsure why American cities passed cross-dressing bans over the closing decades of the nineteenth century. By the 1960s, cities in every…”
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Protecting the Colony from its People: Bushranging, Vagrancy, and Social Control in Colonial New South Wales by Foster, Meg

“…During the 1830s, the Bushranging Act and the Vagrancy Act were crafted to prevent crime, revolt and insurrection in the colony of New South Wales. These…”
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Extraterritoriality and Legal Belonging in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean by Marglin, Jessica M.

“…This article examines the intersection between extraterritoriality--privileges afforded to European subjects in the Islamic Mediterranean--and various forms of…”
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Rebellion, Sovereignty, and Islamic Law in the Ottoman Age of Revolutions by Smiley, Will

“…This article traces how Ottoman interpretations and uses of Islamic law adapted to deal with non-Muslim rebellions between roughly 1769 and 1830. Drawing on…”
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Policing Jim Crow America: Enforcers’ Agency and Structural Transformations by Gregory, Anthony

“…This is a critical historiographical essay animated by the research question of how the decisions of police and sheriffs illuminated and drove the…”
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From Slaves to Índios: Empire, Slavery, and Race (Maranhão, Brazil, c.1740–90) by Pelegrino, Alexandre

“…Northern Brazil experienced consequential socio-economic and legal transformation by the mid-eighteenth century in the context of imperial reforms. If the…”
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The Probate Regime: Enchanted Bureaucracy, Islamic Law, and the Capital of Orphans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt by Mestyan, Adam, Nori, Rezk

“…In this article, we explore the “probate regime,” an administrative field of government activity of legally transferring, taxing, and administering bequests…”
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Wool Smuggling and the Royal Government in England, c.1337–63: Law Enforcement and the Moral Economy in the Late Middle Ages by Raven, Matt

“…The process of law enforcement helped to shape the state in the Middle Ages. This article uses an extensive array of court records to provide the first…”
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Slavery, Law, and Race in England and its New World Empire by Rabin, Dana Y.

“…This paper responds to Holly Brewer's article “Creating a Common Law of Slavery for England and its New World Empire.” Brewer traces a process begun by Charles…”
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From Reciprocity to Territoriality: Extradition, the Opium War, and the Idea of British Sovereignty in Hong Kong, 1842–44 by Lee, Ivan

“…This article examines a key ambiguity in the Opium War treaties of 1842-1843, which concerned the legal status of Hong Kong’s native Chinese population…”
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The Requerimiento in the Old World: Making Demands and Keeping Records in the Legal Culture of Late Medieval Castile by Israeli, Yanay

“…This article analyses the place of the legal procedure known as requerimiento (requirement) in the social life of late medieval Castile. Drawing on archival…”
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Intertwined Itineraries: Debt, Decolonization, and International Law in Post-World War II South Asia by RAMNATH, KALYANI

“…This Article brings a Tamil-speaking Chettiar widow and a Dutch scholar of international law - two seemingly disparate characters - together through a…”
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Complicating Conformity by George, Marie-Amélie

“…In the fall of 1989, the queer community became embroiled in a fierce debate over whether to press for marriage rights. Two attorneys from Lambda Legal, a…”
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Response by Lvovsky, Anna

“…I want to begin by thanking the editors of Law and History Review for hosting this rich exchange on Vice Patrol, as well as Marie-Amélie George, Yvonne Pitts,…”
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Seeing Like an Anti-Fraud State by Blumenthal, Susanna L.

“…“They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death,” Jonathan Swift famously wrote of the fictional island…”
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Introduction: Rethinking the Policing of Homosexuality in Modern America by Fernandez, Angela, Rao, Gautham

“…In 2021, Anna Lvovsky published Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life Before Stonewall with the University of Chicago Press. The book…”
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Response by Lvovsky, Anna

“…I want to begin by thanking the editors of Law and History Review for hosting this rich exchange on Vice Patrol , as well as Marie-Amélie George, Yvonne Pitts,…”
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