THE NEW RAMBLER REVIEW

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  • Inventing a State? The Ecclesiastical Origins of European Secular Governance

    By DAVID STASAVAGE

    Review of The Catholic Church and European State Formation, AD 1000-1500, by Jørgen Møller and Jonathan Doucette

    March 22, 2023
  • A Broad View of Character for Nineteenth-Century Law and Literature

    By ADAM KOZACZKA

    Review of Character: Writing and Reputation in Victorian Law and Literature, by Catherine O. Frank.

    February 01, 2023
  • The Most Useless Book in the History of International Law

    By MAKSYMILIAN DEL MAR

    Review of The Sentimental Life of International Law: Literature, Language, and Longing in World Politics, by Gerry Simpson

    January 05, 2023
  • Through the Fabric of International Law

    By DANIEL R. QUIROGA VILLAMARÍN

    Review of Preparing for War: The Making of the Geneva Conventions, by Boyd van Dijk

    December 14, 2022
  • Government Conditions as Contracts and Then Some

    By RANDY J. KOZEL

    Review of Purchasing Submission: Conditions, Power, and Freedom, by Philip Hamburger

    November 17, 2022
  • Treason and Plot

    By WILFRID PREST

    Review of The State Trials and the Politics of Justice in Later Stuart England, edited by Brian Cowan and Scott Sowerby

    November 03, 2022
  • The Law in its Difference: Institutional Competencies, Coercive Mechanisms, and Obscenity Law

    By ROBERT SPOO

    Review of Reading the Obscene: Transgressive Editors and the Class Politics of US Literature, by Jordan S. Carroll, and A Matter of Obscenity: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England, by Christopher Hilliard

    October 06, 2022
  • Politics, Law, and “Founding Moments” in Late Colonial India

    By SARATH PILLAI

    Review of Norms and Politics: Sir Benegal Narsing Rau in the Making of the Indian Constitution, 1935-50, by Arvind Elangovan 

    August 24, 2022
  • Reimagining Refugee Protection

    By ASHWINI VASANTHAKUMAR

    Review of What Do We Owe to Refugees?, by David Owen, and The Arc of Protection: Reforming the International Refugee Regime, by Alexander Aleinikoffand Leah Zamore 

    August 03, 2022
  • Liberal Protestants and American Politics

    By GALE KENNY

    Review of Before the Religious Right: Liberal Protestants, Human Rights, and the Polarization of the United States, by Gene Zubovich 

    July 20, 2022
  • Rushing to Conclusions?

    By CHRISTOPHER SZABLA

    Review of Move: The Forces Uprooting Us, by Parag Khanna 

    June 29, 2022
  • Custom’s Oppositional Evocations

    By REBECCA LEMON

    Review of Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature, by Stephanie Elsky

    June 16, 2022
  • The Legal Construction of Indigenous Identity: Legal Paradox and Legal Parody 

    By CHERYL SUZACK

    Review of The Indigenous Paradox: Rights, Sovereignty, and Culture in the Americas, by Jonas Bens

    May 25, 2022
  • A Constitution Against Oligarchy?

    By EVAN BERNICK

    Review of The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy, by Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath

    May 11, 2022
  • Let’s Undo the Melting Pot

    By DIANA MUIR APPELBAUM

    Review of The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure, by Yascha Mounk

    May 02, 2022
  • Reading the Laws and Literatures of Anglo-American Modernism

    By MARCO WAN

    Review of Modernism and the Law, by Robert Spoo

    April 21, 2022
  • Haphazard Colonial Dispossession

    By JONAS BENS

    Review of Empire and the Making of Native Title: Sovereignty, Property and Indigenous People, by Bain Attwood

    March 30, 2022
  • How to Survive a Robot Uprising

    By DAVID J. GUNKEL

    Review of We, the Robots? Regulating Artificial Intelligence and the Limits of the Law, by Simon Chesterman

    March 16, 2022
  • Making Liberalism New, or Neutering Liberalism?

    By ALEX ZUTT

    Review of Making Liberalism New: American Intellectuals, Modern Literature, and the Rewriting of a Political Tradition, by Ian Afflerbach

    March 10, 2022
  • From Compromise to New Birth: Lincoln’s Constitution, and Ours

    By GEOFFREY R. KIRSCH

    Review of The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution, by James Oakes, and The Broken Constitution: Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America, by Noah Feldman

    March 03, 2022

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