Edward Gibbon famously wrote: “It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while…
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The Annual Meeting of the Scottish LegalHistory Group will take place in the Advocates’ Library in Edinburgh on 18th October. The programme will be as…
Leave a CommentThe provenance of works is always of interest in legal history. Thus, it is worth nothing that the Lawbook Exchange in New Jersey has just…
Leave a CommentOn 20 June 2025, the Supreme Court of Louisiana Historical Society marked the close of its nine-month commemoration of the 1825 Louisiana Civil Code Bicentennial…
Leave a CommentAll visitors to the old buildings of the University of Heidelberg visit the University Prison. it was established in the late eighteenth century and operated…
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