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{"title":"Doctrinal circulations in criminal law 1764-1914","authors":"Jean-Louis Halpérin","doi":"10.1080/2049677x.2023.2270387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2049677x.2023.2270387","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractAlthough criminal law books were comparatively rare before the middle of the eighteenth century, Beccaria’s Dei delitti e delle pene (1764) triggered the development of an enormous literature devoted to penal issues (from philosophical foundations to debates related to prisons) in Europe until 1914. In one and a half centuries, more than 20,000 books were published on these issues, of which about half were published in German lands and the remainder in Italy, France, Great Britain/United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and the Netherlands. Both philosophers and sociologists participated to these intellectual exchanges. This paper tries to analyse different ways for measuring the circulation of these texts (translations, quotations especially in footnotes, catalogues of private and public libraries, correspondence and travels). Although the debates were clearly transnational, there were also obstacles in the diffusion of foreign books. After evaluating these linguistic or cultural obstacles and considering the changing contexts between the first and second halves of the nineteenth century, this article outlines three conclusions about the globalisation and non-globalisation of legal concepts during this period.Keywords: criminal lawnineteenth centurylegal doctrinescirculationquotationslibraries Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Rosamaria Loretelli, ‘The first English translation of Dei delitti e delle pene. A question of sources and modifications’ (2019) 4 Diciottesimo secolo 95. The French translation, Traité des Délits et des Peines, was completed by Morellet and published in 1766 with no indication of the publisher. The German translations, under the title Über Verbrechen und Strafen, were done by Wittenberg (Hamburg 1766), Bartholomaï (Ulm 1777) and Hommel (along with a commentary) (Breslau 1778). The Greek translation, Peri Amartématôn kai Poinôn, was completed by Coray (Baudelot & Eberhart 1802). And the Spanish translations, Tratado de los Delitos y de las Penas, were first done by Las Casas (Joachim Ibarra 1774) and then by an anonymous translator (Alban 1822).2 John D Bessler, The Birth of American Law: An Italian philosopher and the American Revolution (Carolina Academic Press, 2014).3 Paul F Grendler, The Universities of the Italian Renaissance (John Hopkins University Press, 2004) 449, 457, 460, 470–72. Although devoted professorships did not exist, lectures on criminal law were regularly delivered in Göttingen (by Mascov, Claproth, Böhmer and Meister, both father and son) and in Halle (by Klein). In France, criminal law courses appeared only with the 1804 reopening of law schools and they were linked with lectures on civil and criminal procedure.4 Cesare Beccaria, Traité des Délits et des Peines (Faustin Hélie ed, Guillaumin, 1856); Cesare Beccaria, Traité des délits et des peines (Faustin Hélie ed, 2nd edn, Guillaumin, 1870).5 This phrase first appeared at the end of ","PeriodicalId":53815,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Legal History","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134901759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Irish newspapers and the creation of the 1922 constitution of the Irish Free State","authors":"Thomas Mohr","doi":"10.1080/2049677x.2023.2270389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2049677x.2023.2270389","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53815,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Legal History","volume":"11 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134907814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"De l’assassinat considéré comme l’un des arts juridiques: Droit et littératures policières (XIXe-XXe siècles) <b>De l’assassinat considéré comme l’un des arts juridiques: Droit et littératures policières (XIXe-XXe siècles)</b> , edited by Pierre Bonin and Laetitia Guerlain, Paris, Mare &amp; Martin, 2021, 238 pp., €29 (pbk), ISBN 978-2849345450","authors":"Claire Wrobel","doi":"10.1080/2049677x.2023.2270385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2049677x.2023.2270385","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 All translations are by the reviewer.2 The volume discusses ‘littératures policières’, a designation which includes the detective novel but also the roman noir, hard-boiled detective novel, cosy mystery and thriller. For the sake of brevity, the reviewer uses ‘detective novel’ in a broad sense which includes the various subgenres – all usefully defined in the reviewed book.3 Beacon Press, 1997.4 See Heidi Slettedhal Macpherson, Courting Failure: Women and the Law in Twentieth-Century Literature (University of Akron Press 2008) for precise references.5 Greta Olson, ‘De-Americanizing Law and Literature Narratives: Opening Up the Story’ (2010) 22.2 Law and Literature 338–369. The introduction to the volume does reference works which have appeared in Italian and German languages. Efforts have been made to develop networks which are not rooted in the United States, such as the European Network for Law and Literature, or, in Italy, AIDEL (Associazione Italiana Diritto e Letteratura). ‘Law and Literature’ series now exist in the United Kingdom (Oxford University Press) and Germany (De Gruyter).6 Anne Teissier-Ensminger, La beauté du droit (Descartes 1999); Le droit incarné: huit parcours en jurislittérature (Classiques Garnier 2013); Fabuleuse juridicité : sur la littérarisation des genres juridiques (Classiques Garnier 2015). Her notion of jurisliterature runs through Peter Goodrich’s Advanced Introduction to Law and Literature (Elgar Publishing 2021).7 See for instance Crystal Parikh (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature (Cambridge University Press 2019).8 For an overview and new perspectives, see Greta Olson, From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect (Oxford University Press 2022).","PeriodicalId":53815,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Legal History","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134901931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rechtsvergleichung als Erkenntnismethode. Historische Perspektiven vom Spätmittelalter bis ins 19. Jahrhundert <b>Rechtsvergleichung als Erkenntnismethode. Historische Perspektiven vom Spätmittelalter bis ins 19. Jahrhundert</b> , by Heinz Mohnhaupt, Frankfurt am Main, Klosterman, 2022, 247 + IX pp., € 59,00, ISBN 978-3465045366","authors":"James Q. Whitman","doi":"10.1080/2049677x.2023.2270386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2049677x.2023.2270386","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53815,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Legal History","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134907142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Constitutional foundings in Southeast Asia <b>Constitutional foundings in Southeast Asia</b> , edited by Kevin YL Tan and Bui Ngoc Son, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2019, 352 pp., £34.19 (pbk), ISBN 978-1509946129 <b>Constitutional foundings in South Asia</b> , edited by Kevin YL Tan and Ridwanul Hoque, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2021, 280 pp., £29.69 (pbk), ISBN 978-1509944033 <b>Constitutional foundings in Northeast Asia</b> , edited by Kevin YL Tan and Michael Ng, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2021, …","authors":"Francesco Biagi","doi":"10.1080/2049677x.2023.2270383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2049677x.2023.2270383","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Ran Hirschl, ‘Comparative Matters: Response to Interlocutors’ (2016) 96(4) Boston University Law Review 1393–424: 1398.2 Pierre Legrand, ‘The Same and the Different’ in Pierre Legrand and Roderick Munday (eds), Comparative Legal Studies: Traditions and Transitions (Cambridge University Press, 2003) 240–311: 276–7.3 See, for example, Wen-Chen Chang and others, Constitutionalism in Asia: Cases and Materials (Hart Publishing, 2014); Rosalind Dixon and Tom Ginsburg (eds), Comparative Constitutional Law in Asia (Edward Elgar, 2014); Albert HY Chen (ed), Constitutionalism in Asia in the Early Twenty-First Century (Cambridge University Press, 2014).4 See, for example, Philipp Dann, Michael Riegner and Maxim Bönnemann (eds), The Global South and Comparative Constitutional Law (Oxford University Press, 2020). Some works focus on specific regions. On Latin America see Conrado Hübner Mendes, Roberto Gargarella and Sebastián Guidi (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Constitutional Law in Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2022). On the Caribbean see Richard Albert, Derek O’Brien and Se-shauna Wheatle (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Constitutions (Oxford University Press, 2020). On Africa see the Stellenbosch Handbooks in African Constitutional Law published by Oxford University Press.5 In 1962, Klaus Epstein observed that ‘the study of comparative constitutional history is still in its infancy’. See Klaus Epstein, ‘A New German Constitutional History’ (1962) 34(3) The Journal of Modern History 307–11: 308. More than 60 years later, his observation remains topical.6 See the articles in ‘Symposium: Constitutional History: Comparative Perspectives’ (2017) 2017(2) University of Illinois Law Review 475 ff; Francesco Biagi, Justin O Frosini and Jason Mazzone (eds), Comparative Constitutional History, vol 1, Principles, Developments, Challenges (Brill, 2020); Francesco Biagi, Justin O Frosini and Jason Mazzone (eds), Comparative Constitutional History, vol 2, Uses of History in Constitutional Adjudication (Brill, 2023); William Partlett, ‘Historiography and Comparative Constitutional Scholarship’ (2023) Comparative Constitutional Studies (advance access) &lt;https://doi.org/10.4337/ccs.2023.0014&gt;.7 See Claude Klein and András Sajó, ‘Constitution-Making as a Process’ in Michel Rosenfeld and András Sajó (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law (Oxford University Press, 2012); David Landau and Hanna Lerner (eds), Comparative Constitution Making (Edward Elgar, 2019).8 On constitutional founding see also Richard Albert, Menaka Guruswamy and Nishchal Basnyat (eds), Founding Moments in Constitutionalism (Hart Publishing, 2019).9 Antonino Spadaro, ‘La transizione costituzionale. Ambiguità e polivalenza di un’importante nozione di teoria generale’ in Antonino Spadaro (ed), Le “trasformazioni” costituzionali nell’età della transizione (Giappichelli, 2000) 17–117: 64 (translation by the au","PeriodicalId":53815,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Legal History","volume":"39 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134901932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The unwanted citizens: The ‘Legality’ of Jewish destruction in Croatia and Romania during World War II","authors":"Goran Miljan, Anders E.B. Blomqvist","doi":"10.1080/2049677x.2023.2270390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2049677x.2023.2270390","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the establishment of the legal framework that led to the destruction and elimination of Jewish communities in Croatia and Romania during World War II. It argues that both regimes, supported by domestic fascist ideologies, evolving antisemitism, and inspired by the Nazi regime, promulgated anti-Jewish legal norms to present and establish new political, ideological, and social values and categories to their citizens. This article employs the theoretical framework of norms developed by Paul Morrow, whereby norms are seen as practical prescriptions, permissions or prohibitions. We argue that these destructive norms served as guidelines for individuals within the fascist new worldview and new reality. As such, these norms received state authorisation and implementation, serving as the ‘legal’ basis for the institutional destruction of unwanted citizens. This gave local and state actors a ‘legal’ pretext for the persecution and murder of Jews, who were stripped of their rights, assets, properties and right to life. The article concludes that the two legal frameworks enacted the process by which Jewish communities in Croatia and Romania faced a devastation of unseen proportions, which testifies to the importance and impact of legal norms on individuals, be they victims, bystanders or perpetrators.","PeriodicalId":53815,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Legal History","volume":"51 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136382087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A history of civil law in early China: cases, statutes, concepts and beyond <b>A history of civil law in early China: cases, statutes, concepts and beyond</b> , by Zhaoyang Zhang, Leiden, Brill, 2022, 294 pp., €118.00 (hbk), ISBN 978-9004393738","authors":"Pengfei Su","doi":"10.1080/2049677x.2023.2270392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2049677x.2023.2270392","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Zhaoyang Zhang, Zhongguo zaoqi minfa de jiangou (China University of Political Science and Law Press 2014).2 While some earlier law-related Chinese treatises had used the term ‘fen分’ (i.e. portion) to denote ownership, by the Han Dynasty the more commonly-used term was the binome ‘mingfen’, which combined the concept of title to rank (ie ming) with the inheritance law concept of fen.","PeriodicalId":53815,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Legal History","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134902553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Truth and privilege: libel law in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, 1820–1840 <b>Truth and privilege: libel law in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, 1820–1840</b> , by Lyndsay M. Campbell, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 470 pp, $59.99 (hbk), ISBN 978-1316510698","authors":"Kristin A. Olbertson","doi":"10.1080/2049677x.2023.2270394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2049677x.2023.2270394","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53815,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Legal History","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134907617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Forms of unfreedom in the Medieval Mediterranean <b>Forms of unfreedom in the Medieval Mediterranean</b> , edited by Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros and Clara Almagro Vidal, Évora, Publicações do Cidehus, 2021, 152 pp, free open access (electronic), https://doi.org/10.4000/books.cidehus.18067","authors":"Michelle A. McKinley","doi":"10.1080/2049677x.2023.2270393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2049677x.2023.2270393","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53815,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Legal History","volume":"20 01","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134907659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The rule of laws: a 4,000-year quest to order the world <b>The rule of laws: a 4,000-year quest to order the world</b> , by Fernanda Pirie, New York, Basic Books, 2021, 570 pp, $35.00 US (hardcover), ISBN 978-1541617940","authors":"Jean-Louis Halpérin","doi":"10.1080/2049677x.2023.2270391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2049677x.2023.2270391","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Fernanda Pirie, Peace and Conflict in Ladakh. The Construction of a Fragile Web of Order (Brill, 2013); Fernanda Pirie and Judith Scheele, eds., Legalism. Community and Justice (OUP 2014); Fernanda Pirie, The Anthropology of Law (OUP, 2013).2 Josef Kohler, ‘Rechtsphilosophie und Universal-rechtsgeschichte’ in Franz von Holtzendorff and Josef Kohler (eds), Encyklopädie der Rechtswissenschaft im systematischer Bearbeitung (Leipzig-Bel min, 1904), vol 1, 1–69.3 Pirie, The Anthropology of Law (n 1) 16–21; Hebert Lionel Adolphus Hart, The Concept of Law (Oxford, 1961); Brian Tamanaha, A General Jurisprudence of Law and Society (OUP, 2011).4 Jean Bottéro, Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning and the Gods, Z Bahrani and M Van De Mieroop (trans.) (University of Chicago Press, 1992).5 Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe. Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton University Press, 2000).6 Frederic William Maitland, Why the History of English Law is Not Written (C J Clay & Sons, 1888).","PeriodicalId":53815,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Legal History","volume":"244 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135883653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}