Duggan's Essays on Medieval Canon Law

We’ve recently learned of the publication of A. J. Duggan, Popes, Bishops, and the Progress of Canon Law, c.1120–1234,......

Astorri on Lutheran Theology and Contract Law in Early Modern Germany

Here's a 2019 publication that we missed somehow: Lutheran Theology and Contract Law in Early Modern Germany (ca. 1520-1720)......

Weekend Roundup

In the op-ed pages of the New York Times: John Fabian Witt (Yale Law School) writes about how courts have historically......

Prifogle, "Legal Landscapes, Migrant Labor, and Rural Social Safety Nets in Michigan, 1942-1971"

Emily Prifogle (University of Michigan Law) has posted "Legal Landscapes, Migrant Labor, and Rural Social Safety Nets in......

A Lost World? Jewish International Lawyers and New World Orders

[We have the following announcement.  The full--and footnoted--call is here.  DRE] Call for proposals: A......

David's "Kinship, Law and Politics"

Joseph E. David, Sapir Academic College, Israel, has published Kinship, Law and Politics: An Anatomy of Belonging in the......

How the Law Treats Hate

We have word of a Zoom conference,  How the Law Treats Hate: Antisemitism and Anti-Discrimination Reconsidered, sponsored......

Urian: Cardinal Wolsey's Dog Bites Pope Clement VII

The Church of England may never have been established if it wasn't for a greyhound named Urian belonging to Cardinal Wolsey......

Belferlein: Do Dogs Go to Heaven?

Belferlein (named Tölpel by some accounts), was a Pomeranian who belonged to a famous German theologian and Augustinian......

Guinefort: The Greyhound Who Was Made a Saint

The earliest records of this story come from Stephen of Bourbon, a Roman Catholic Church authority, around the 13th century.Guinefort......

The Dogs in Saint Patrick's Life

According to St. Patrick's own writings and a bit of mythology, dogs played a big part in his life.Around 400 AD, 16 year......

Grigio: Father Bosco's Guardian Angel

Grigio, described by many as a German shepherd-looking dog, would appear out of nowhere to protect Father Bosco from the......

St. Roch, The Patron Saint of Dogs

It was the loving care a dog gave that led to St. Roch being named the Patron Saint of Dogs.Saint Roch was born the only......

Lazarus, the Rich Man and the Compassionate Dogs

According to the parable of Lazarus and the rich man, it was dogs who showed compassion to a poor man when man wouldn't."There......

The French wars of religion

The French wars of religionNo wars are more terrible than civil wars. They tear at the very fabric of society, rending......