About this Journal
Legal history is traditional in its methods and techniques of research. This is not necessarily a problem, but researchers applying digital tools to legal sources need a place to go. The Journal for Digital Legal History ("DLH") wants to showcase both new methods and the application thereof, by including elaborate graphics, datasets, links, Jupyter Notebooks, metadata and tutorials. As such, the DLH does not limit itself to traditional formats and offers a platform for innovative research, to reach out to colleagues interested in novel approaches and methodologies.
We have a continuous call for contributions, please head to the 'News' page for more information. In addition, for each issue, one or multiple specific calls for contributions will be sent out, also to be found under the 'News' page.
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Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Journal for Digital Legal History | 2023
The first issue of the Journal for Digital Legal History.
Editorial
Editorial and Acknowledgements
Christel Annemieke Romein, Florenz Volkaert, Andreas Wagner, Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina, Nga Bellis-Phan, Gijs van Dijck, Arthur Barretto de Almeida Costa, Stephen Robertson and Dirk Heirbaut
2023-12-15 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Journal for Digital Legal History | 2023
Sovereignty, Race and Freedom in Constitutions, Citations and Corpuses
Sovereignty, Race, and Freedom in Constitutions, Citations, and Corpuses
Katrina Jagodinsky
2023-11-17 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Journal for Digital Legal History | 2023
Tribal Constitutions Project
Beth Redbird and Erin Delaney
2023-11-17 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Journal for Digital Legal History | 2023
Citing Slavery Project
Audrea Dakho, Henry Morgan, Ilina Krishen and Justin Simard
2023-11-17 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Journal for Digital Legal History | 2023
Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924
Katrina Jagodinsky and Cory Young
2023-11-17 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Journal for Digital Legal History | 2023
Article
Potential Application of Structural Linguistics Methodology in the Network Analysis of Roman and Medieval Regulae Iuris
Ilya Andreevich Kotlyar
2023-09-05 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Journal for Digital Legal History | 2023
Review
Book review Max Kemman, Trading Zones of Digital History
Femke Gordijn
2023-03-02 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Journal for Digital Legal History | 2023
Book review: Jennifer Guiliano, A primer for Teaching Digital History. Ten Design Principles (Duke 2022)
Christel Annemieke Romein
2023-06-13 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Journal for Digital Legal History | 2023
Short notice
Short notice : To commemorate shared pasts. Legislation related to enslavement and multicultural relations in the Dutch West Indies colonies, c. 1670 – c. 1870
Marijcke Schillings and Henk-Jan van Dapperen
2022-11-14 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Journal for Digital Legal History | 2023
Short Notice: A Database of Early Modern Police Ordinances.
Karl Härter
2022-12-20 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Journal for Digital Legal History | 2023
Short notice/ Call for participation: Collateral Councils – Collaterale Raden - Conseils collatéraux of the Low Countries (1531-2031)
Hans Cools, Vincenzo De Meulenaere, Marie-Charlotte le Bailly, Christel Annemieke Romein, Nicolas Ruys, René Vermeir and Monique Weis
2023-06-12 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Journal for Digital Legal History | 2023
Latest News Posts
Call for Contributions: The Trial and Errors of Grant Applications in Digital Legal History
Posted by Florenz Volkaert on 2024-04-30
Call for Contributions: The Trial and Errors of Grant Applications in Digital Legal HistoryWe are pleased to announce a special call for papers for an upcoming thematic section in the Journal for Digital Legal History. As part of our ongoing commitment to fostering innovation and interdisciplinary dialogue in the field of digital legal history, we invite scholars to submit their successful or [...]
Read MoreCall for Contributions - Dedicated Focus-section for Early Career Digital Legal Historians: Introducing and Experimenting with Novel Methodologies for the History of Law
Posted by Florenz Volkaert on 2024-04-30
Call for Contributions: Dedicated "Focus-section: Early Career Digital Legal Historians: Legal History Upside-Down: Novel Methodologies for the History of Law". We are pleased to invite proposals from researchers and others working with digital legal history in the early stages of their careers for a special section of the Journal for Digital Legal History, which will be published in [...]
Read More2024 Call for Contributions
Posted by Florenz Volkaert on 2024-04-30
2024 Call for Contributions The Journal for Digital Legal History (DLH) is a diamond Open-Access, peer-reviewed international journal hosted by the Open UGent platform. For our second issue, which will be published in November 2024, we are pleased to invite contributions from researchers working on legal history with digital, empirical and computational approaches. The journal welcomes all [...]
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