American Journal of Legal History, March 2017

I'm delighted to report that the March 2017 issue of the American Journal of Legal History is up on the AJLH's website and it's at the printer and should be arriving in the mailboxes of subscribers soon.  The contents are as follows: 

Articles

Adam Lebovitz, Franklin Redivivus: The Radical Constitution, 1791-1799

Anne Boerger & Morten Rasmussen, The Making of European Law: Exploring the Life and Work of Michel Gaudet

Sung Yup Kim, “In a Summary Way, with Expedition and at a Small Expence”: Justices of the Peace and Small Debt Litigation in Late Colonial New York

Book Reviews

Wendell Bird, Press and Speech Under Assault: The Early Supreme Court Justices, the Sedition Acts of 1798, and the Campaign Against Dissent, reviewed by Terri D. Halperin

Laura E. Free, Suffrage Reconstructed: Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era, reviewed by Ann D. Gordon, and

Susanna L. Blumenthal. Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture, reviewed by Guyora Binder

Comments

[Jason Kilborn]

Arrrrgh! I HATE these journals that are behind paywalls. Better to not publicize the contents of a journal that is inaccessible to those interested in its contents. I've been trying to get access to Kim's piece on small debt collection for months now, to no avail. I understand the need to support journals, but the many sources of academic knowledge that are embargoed behind paywalls is so unconstructive. My biggest pet peeve is when SSRN allows abstracts for these kinds of papers to be posted--and then we can't download the papers. I really wish the academy could come up with a response to this, such as by having tenure committees evaluate the substance of pieces (published open access on the web) rather than lazily relying on journal placement. Rant over ...

[Captain Hruska Carswell, Continuance King]

What is old, is new. Look closely at the titles to these articles. To quote our great leader, "Sad."