Holly Brewer (@earlymodjustice.bsky.social)

LHR 43:1 Law and History Review 43:1 is now available online. Here is the TOC: Articles Context Matters: Understanding Why Medieval Legislators Chose to Regulate Women's Pregnant Bodies Sara M. Butler Kenya's Emergency Powers: Legal Continuities in the Post-Colonial State, 1959–1969 Kyle J. Melles Properties of Empire: Contests over the Commons on Newfoundland's French Shore, 1763–83 Arianne Sedef Urus Absence of Talion and Tort Law in Early Imperial China (221BCE-9 CE): How Body Politic Cancelled Corrective Justice Liang Cai From the Poor Law to the Adoption of Children Act 1926: Another Punishment for Being Poor Rachel Elizabeth Pimm-Smith Carsun Chang's Jefferson: A Lost Era of Transnational Sino-American Constitutional Imagination Jedidiah Joseph Kroncke and Haimo Li “Up with the Brave”: Gender, Transgression and Judges’ Use of Catholic Convents in England and Ireland, 1930–1959 Máiréad Enright Forum: Willrich’s American Anarchy Saboteurs as State Builders Sarah E. Igo The Politics of Political Economy in the Industrial Age Kyle G. Volk Reading American Anarchy as a Legal History of Immigrants Daniel J. Sharfstein Response Michael Willrich Book Reviews Ada Maria Kuskowski, Vernacular Law: Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xviii, 412. $125 hardcover (ISBN 978-1-009-21789-7). Anne E. Lester Philip Stern, Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations that Built British Colonialism Cambridge, MA and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023. Pp. 408. $35 hardcover (ISBN 9780674988125). Mircea Raianu Margot Canaday, Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. 312. $35.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780691205953). Marie-Amélie George http://dlvr.it/TP75qY