A few weeks ago, I joined several legal historians in filing an amicus brief about the Second Amendment right to carry arms; the case is Wrenn v. District of Columbia, currently before the D.C.

Every few years, a familiar anxiety resurfaces in British public discourse: that sharia law is establishing a parallel legal system and threatening the sovereignty of English law. Those fears were ...

This isn’t exactly a “puzzle”, but it is an exam question I gave my English Legal History students last time I taught the class. I may post some of these once in a while, with answers to come later.

English law occupies a unique and influential position in global finance, sharing its status with New York law as one of the two dominant legal systems underpinning the international financial markets ...