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19 Apr 2013, 12:10 pm
Like the “myth of Magna Carta” that has exerted so much influence on English and American constitutional law, “Canossa” emphasizes the dangers to liberty from a government that sees no bounds on its jurisdiction and authority. [read post]
18 Aug 2014, 8:28 am
Other documents slated for this secret mission included The Gutenberg Bible, Lincoln’s Second Inaugural and Gettysburg Addresses, and the Lincoln Cathedral copy of the Magna Carta which had been on display at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City. [read post]
8 Oct 2015, 6:30 am
Two of the speakers are involved with the Early English Laws project to re-edit and translate all English legal texts written before Magna Carta, and thus are playing a role in revolutionizing the way we access sources and conduct research. [read post]
27 Feb 2017, 4:00 am
McSweeney, Salvation by Statute: Magna Carta, Legislation, and the King's Soul, (William & Mary Bill of Rights, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2016).From SmartCILP:Deepa Das Acevedo, Temples, Courts, and Dynamic Equilibrium in the Indian Constitution, 64 American Journal of Comparative Law 555-581 (2016).Shlomo Pill, Jewish Law Antecedents to American Constitutional Thought, [Abstract], 85 Mississippi Law Journal 643-696 (2016).Lua Kamal Yuille, Creating a Babel Fish for Rights… [read post]
10 Apr 2015, 9:30 pm
Paul Brand, Professor of English Legal History at the University of Oxford and, this year, the Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the University of Melbourne, will deliver the 2015 Miegunyah public lecture on The First Century of Magna Carta and the Law at the Melbourne Law School on Wednesday, 15 April from 6.30pm. [read post]
9 Jun 2015, 2:31 pm
* It's the 800th Anniversary of the Magna Carta. [read post]
28 Nov 2014, 9:30 pm
From The Guardian: "A little-known medieval poem written almost 800 years ago by Scottish borders monks was revealed on Thursday as the earliest independent account of one of the single most important events in English history: the sealing of the Magna Carta. [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]
20 Feb 2017, 9:30 pm
Dick Howard, University of Virginia, author of The Road from Runnymede: Magna Carta and Constitutionalism in America [read post]
14 Nov 2014, 9:30 pm
From Slate's The Vault: Edgar Allen Poe's 1842 bankruptcy petition.The Library of Congress's "Magna Carta: Muse and Mentor" exhibition is now open. [read post]
10 Sep 2021, 6:30 am
This includes the origins of the common law; the growth of the legal profession; the making of the Magna Carta; the English Civil Wars; the Bill of Rights; the American War of Independence.The second part examines the development of the law in Australia to the present day, including the English criminal justice system and convict transportation; the role of the Privy Council in 19th century; Indigenous Australia in the colonial period; the federation movement; Constitutional… [read post]
26 Nov 2023, 9:30 pm
Most scholarship in medieval law and literature has focused on statute and theory, drawing from the instantiating texts of English law: acts of Parliament, judicial treatises, the Magna Carta. [read post]
14 Nov 2020, 9:30 pm
This includes famous documents, such as the Magna Carta, as well as lesser-known sources, some appearing in English translation for the first time. [read post]
24 Sep 2019, 7:51 am
The barons wrested Magna Carta from King John because he was unpopular and needed money to fight a foreign war. [read post]
18 Dec 2015, 9:30 pm
Rubenstein, JD’73, found himself in a small side room at Sotheby’s New York City auction house, the new owner of the only copy of the Magna Carta in America. [read post]
10 Oct 2016, 9:30 pm
Tyler, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, has posted A “Second Magna Carta”: The English Habeas Corpus Act and the Statutory Origins of the Habeas Privilege, which appears in the Notre Dame Law Review 91 (2016):1949-1996, and is dedicated to her federal courts teacher, the late Daniel Meltzer. [read post]
24 Jul 2015, 9:30 pm
"Over at Environment, Law, and History, David Schorr writes about "Magna Carta and the environment. [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]
28 Apr 2014, 5:55 am
As a way of combining a salute to Shakespeare and continuing our fascination with all things Magna Carta, I thought I would take a look at Shakespeare’s play, “King John. [read post]
12 May 2017, 4:00 am
Jordan, 2016 Delay in court or tribunal proceedings has been an issue at least since the Magna Carta of 1215, when King John promised that “to no man will we sell, to no man deny, or delay right or justice”. [read post]
