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30 Jan 2019, 7:33 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer; detail of Pieter Brueghel, Le Combat de Carnavale et Carême; Royal Museum of Fine Arts Brussels)I take this opportunity to announce the posting of a new draft, "From the Social to the Human Rights of Labor: Reflections on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 23, the ILO, and Working Rights Principles" (CPE Working Paper No. 2/1 (Jan. 2019)).The essay reflects a little about the well known great transformation of conceptions from… [read post]
5 Jan 2019, 4:02 pm by Tamar Herzog
So did the early modern English lawyers who invoked the Magna Carta. [read post]
20 Dec 2018, 10:00 am by Dan Ernst
Magna Carta in Supreme Court History, Derek A. [read post]
30 Nov 2018, 2:54 pm
Durante ese proceso, muchos ciudadanos plantearon la necesidad de un amparo de ese tipo que figurase en la misma carta magna. [read post]
16 Nov 2018, 7:42 pm by Christine Corcos
It is now more than 800 years since the Magna Carta of 1215, soon after which English law started to document its history. [read post]
16 Nov 2018, 7:42 pm
It is now more than 800 years since the Magna Carta of 1215, soon after which English law started to document its history. [read post]
5 Nov 2018, 7:30 am
When it was presented to the United Nations General Assembly in December in 1948, Eleanor Roosevelt, chair of the writing group, called it a new "Magna Carta for all mankind. [read post]
22 Oct 2018, 6:00 am by Mark Graber
  Edward Coke and his Parliamentary allies spoke of Magna Carta as provided fixed limits on regal power to tax, imprison and detain. [read post]
19 Oct 2018, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
Constitution take after its unwritten ancestor, the British constitution, and carry within it the same mystical combination of fixity and perpetual change that ran from Magna Carta of 1215 through the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and beyond? [read post]
18 Oct 2018, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
Gienapp describes the British constitution as “written compacts, like Magna Carta,” and other “authoritative” texts, “blended seamlessly into a complex, dynamic whole defined as much by custom, history, and constitutional practice. [read post]
15 Oct 2018, 8:00 am by JB
Like the Argonauts' famous boat, each of its components might be replaced over time, but it was always the same British constitution.This model of constitutions and constitutionalism envisioned a constitution as a flexible system of governance, in which particular texts-- for example, Magna Carta or the Bill of Rights-- were a bit like ingredients in a larger pudding. [read post]
11 Oct 2018, 9:12 am by Lex-Warrier
In 1215, Magna Carta was a first step in giving all freemen the right to fair trial by jury. [read post]
10 Oct 2018, 6:30 am by ernst
Courts, the executive branch, and many scholars rely on one or both clauses as support for expansive views of presidential power, for example, to go beyond standing law to defend the nation in emergencies; to withhold documents from Congress or the courts; or to refuse to fully execute statutes on grounds of unconstitutionality or for policy reasons.This Article is the first to explore the textual roots of these clauses from the time of Magna Carta and medieval England, through… [read post]
8 Oct 2018, 5:00 pm
Yes, Magna Carta’s commitment to the rule of law mattered; yes, the English Civil wars and the beheading of Charles I in the 17th century shed new light on a people’s power to resist and laid bare the foundations of political authority; yes, the colonial experiments with self-government sowed seeds that would blossom into rebellion. [read post]
6 Oct 2018, 11:04 am by Andrew Delaney
It was decided in Merry Olde England before the Magna Carta that bail couldn’t be set by the same police who were arresting people for crimes. [read post]
3 Oct 2018, 2:58 am by Walter Olson
“Rejected Applicant Sues Law Schools for Violating Magna Carta” [Kevin Underhill, Lowering the Bar] “Attorney sued for malpractice is suspended after releasing client’s psychiatric records” [Stephanie Francis Ward, ABA Journal] Moving state and local alcohol regulation past the bootlegger/Baptist era [Cato Daily Podcast with Jeremy Horpendahl] In Charlottesville today? [read post]
19 Sep 2018, 4:45 pm by Kevin
The Law of the Case will also apparently be found in Black’s Law Dictionary, Barron’s Canadian Law Dictionary, and, of course, Article 34 of the Magna Carta. [read post]