Legal history is a discipline with many facets. The plural legal histories is fully justified as a name for the study of vast territories in time, space, subjects and approaches.
On my blog legal iconography has been a regular subject, and I am always happy to bring here projects, exhibitions or monographs to your attention. [...]
Randall K. Johnson, University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of Law, is publishing Frederick Douglass: D.C. Recorder of Deeds in volume 28 of The Green Bag (2026). Here
is the abstract. [...]
Le décret n° 2025-762 du 4 août 2025 portant modernisation du régime des fonds d’investissement alternatifs (FIA) comporte plusieurs mesures d’application de l’ordonnance
n° 2024-662 du 3 juillet 2024 portant modernisation du régime des FIA (sur cette ordonnance, voir BJB sept. [...]
Today I start another year of teaching at The Ohio State University MorItz College of Law, and I am very much looking forward to meeting a new cohort of 1Ls in my Criminal
Law class this afternoon. Much has changed (and not changed) in my many years of law teaching, but the excitement of "the first day of school" is a wonderful constant. [...]
A set of US Supreme Court cases to be argued in November — which are already being discussing at the Sentencing Matters Substack in recent posts here and here — seems likely
to bring more attention to so-called "compassionate release" laws and practices. But the cases before the Justices highlight why, at least in the federal system, [...]
1. Matthias Leistner has posted a paper on ssrn titled The first SEP/FRAND decisions on the merits of the UPC—an overview in context. Here is a link to the paper, and here
is the abstract: [...]
