Legal History Miscellany

Crime, Culpability, and the Devil in the Details

Poisoning Crimes and the ‘Mushroom Murderer’: Patterns and Precedents

Resisting Visitation in Late Medieval England

Arresting Developments

Tackling the ‘Assault Deficit’

All Bastards are Free: The Medieval Origins of the Common Law Rule

The End(s) of a Lawless Court

Investigating the ‘Assault Deficit’

Between the Lines and Off the Record: A Sampling of Shorthand Notations from George Treby’s Middle Temple Notebooks, 1667-72

Weird and Wonderful: The Mixed Cultural Heritage of England’s Common Law

Cruel Mercy? Coronation Pardons, Clemency, and Constraints