I'm pleased to report that the June 2017 issue of the American Journal of Legal History is up on AJLH's website. The hard copies should be arriving in subscribers' mailboxes soon. Here is the table of contents:
Wim Decock, Law, Religion, and Debt Relief: Balancing above the ‘Abyss of Despair’ in Early Modern Canon Law and Theology
Rebekka Byberg, A Miscellaneous Network: The History of FIDE 1961-94
Brian Sawers, The Poll Tax before Jim Crow
Logan E. Sawyer, III , Principle and Politics in the New History of Originalism
BOOK SYMPOSIUM: THE PEOPLE’S WELFARE AT 20
Roman J. Hoyos, Introduction: The People’s Welfare, Law, and the Modern American State
Gautham Rao, William J. Novak’s The People’s Welfare and the New Historiography of the Early Federal State
Kyle G. Volk, The Consequential State: Public Law and the Release of Energy in Nineteenth-Century America
Kate Masur, The People's Welfare, Police Powers, and the Rights of Free People of African Descent
Karen M. Tani, From the Well-Regulated Society to the Modern American State
Response: William J. Novak, The People’s Welfare Redux
BOOK REVIEWS
Mark Rose, Authors in Court: Scenes From the Theater of Copyright, reviewed by Dave Fagundes
Karen M. Tani, States of Dependency: Welfare, Rights, and American Governance, 1935-1972 reviewed by Alice O'Connor