Also worth noting for the ‘everything is online’ crowd that the numbers of archives being destroyed means that an increasing proportion cannot ever be online.
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Also worth noting for the ‘everything is online’ crowd that the numbers of archives being destroyed means that an increasing proportion cannot ever be online.
Performing Law is now published online, Open Access, extant virtually, as vibrant and vivid as a ventriloquist in a vivarium : www.cambridge.org/core/books/p... @juliestonepeters.bsky.social
Some of the most beautiful hand-drawn diagrams i've ever seen. Turkish "Justice Gazette", 1920, artist: Cerîde-i Adliyye.
Source [substack] casualarchivist.substack.com/p/poetic-jus...
#türkiye #infographics #stunning
A very quick bit of research, using this table
statutes.org.uk/site/collect...
to see how much material from the Interregnum (1649-1660) is in the English Reports.
Answer: not a lot, seemingly just vol. 82, King's Bench 11, has reports from that time.
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On my Alsatia site, using Wordpress, I've just published two PDFs (of 1811 debtor relief acts):
alsatia.org.uk/site/statute...
alsatia.org.uk/site/statute...
Do they work for whatever hardware & software you're using?
Thanks!
“‘Aaronson v Channel 4’ sounds real, but it’s completely made up, Koutsogiannis v Random House is a real case, but Kamal’s summary was totally wrong. And the citation number he used to refer to another real case, Riley v Murray, was a reference to an entirely different one”
https://bit.ly/3OqPjII
CFP: Race, Law and Empire
The History of Parliament Project ( @histparl.bsky.social ) on the Representation of the People Act:
historyofparliament.com/2018/02/06/t...
#History #LegalHistory
#OTD in 1918:
The Representation of the People Act is passed, extending the vote to men over 21 and some women over 30.
statutes.org.uk/site/the-sta...
#History #LegalHistory
One assumes the journalists believe every piece of law should be repealed on a yearly basis and have to go back through Parliament if people want to keep it. To avoid being archaic or arcane and suchlike
a) a century is not a long time in the context of the UK parliament and the law
b) it's only a century old if you count the 1911 Parliament Act and ignore the 1949 Parliament Act which amended it
c) Parliament Acts are established parts of the UK system- reporting them as "old" is a weird framing
And bibliographized here:
statutes.org.uk/site/collect...
#Seychelles #LegalHistory
Historians and legal scholars: please submit your articles for the Burbank Global Legal History prize! Any article published in 2025 is eligible. The deadline is June 1.
I am chairing the committee this year so reach out with any questions!
aslh.net/award/jane-b...
The article linked in the post below:
Librarianship at the Crossroads of ICE Surveillance
www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2019/ice-sur...
Relx & Thompson-Reuters own LexisNexis and Westlaw, two of the largest proprietory legal databases.
Given all the news about ICE in the past few weeks, can I kindly remind you all that RELX (owners of Elsevier & LexisNexis) is "mission-critical" to ICE.
ICE pays RELX Group and Thomson Reuters millions of dollars for the personal data it needs to fuel its big data policing program […]
New #OpenAccess #LegalHistory from @uolpress.bsky.social
Law and Justice in the 1950s
Case Studies From a Neglected Decade
uolpress.co.uk/book/law-and...
#History
DRAFT PROGRAM: Law and Governance - 27th British Legal History Conference (Nottingham: University of Nottingham, 1-4 JUL 2026)
@uniofnottingham.bsky.social
esclh.blogspot.com/2026/01/draf...
Our first book of 2026 will be #Law & #Justice in the 1950s: Case Studies From a Neglected Decade, edited by Fiona Cownie and Rosemary Auchmuty, part of our #OpenAccess Reimagining Law and Justice series published with @ials.bsky.social.
Read more here:
uolpress.co.uk/book/law-and...
#LegalStudies
When I moved to Ireland, a colleague joked - I thought then - that Irish legislation took whatever had passed in Westminster, did find-replace "Queen" with "the State", and stuck a harp on the front.
Sorry for doubting you, Fachtna.
As it was asked about on Mastodon, here's the form to get Google Books to release #PublicDomain titles:
support.google.com/websearch/an...
NB: Snippet view shows Google has a digital version to release.
NB 2: cite relevent law, or proof that author died over 70 (in UK) years ago.
1975 a big year for statute law consolidation, with 16 Consolidation Acts en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consoli... a feat matched in 1979 but unsurpassed since, as demand for pristine texts reduced with the availability of perpetually revised digital editions
Now in the #PublicDomain, acts of the UK parliament for 1975:
Vol 1: books.google.co.uk/books?id=qER...
Vol 2: books.google.co.uk/books?id=EUV...
Vol 3: books.google.co.uk/books?id=RUV...
& added to the chronological bibliography of GB/UK statutes:
statutes.org.uk/site/collect...
#LegalHistory
#OTD in 1819: The Seditious Meetings Act is passed. One of the 'Six Acts' passed to suppress radical movements in the wake of Peterloo.
statutes.org.uk/site/the-sta...
#History
However, that section excepted the civil service. In the UK Foreign Service, the 'marriage bar' obliged women to retire upon marriage until 1973.
Many countries had similar rules. They weren't relics, either - most were enacted *after* WWI or WW2, and persisted the longest in foreign services.
#OTD in 1919: the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act is passed.
"A person shall not be disqualified by sex or marriage from the exercise of any public function, or from being appointed to or holding any civil or judicial office or post"
statutes.org.uk/site/the-sta...
#History #LegalHistory
Bizarre Legal AI grift comes a cropper.
Text version: pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/18/r...
depressed lawyer with briefcase looking across at dorky-looking robot also with briefcase
Robin AI: a legal review AI that was humans! And it just went broke
‘Well, we’re building an AI lawyer’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pdP... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251218-rob... - podcast
time: 6 min 55 sec
I repeat: legal data is large.
I'm actually slightly mystified at how I managed to bypass the palaver, but I have this URL which is working for me without logging in to anything: edinburghuniversitypress.com/pub/media/eb...
New #OpenAccess (though it was a bit of a palaver downloading it) #LegalHistory and #WomensHistory book:
Early Modern Women’s Life-Writing and English Law
by Lotte Fikkers
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-early-m...
#History 🗃️