Contents

Editorial Staff
In This Issue		v

Articles

Settlement and the Decline of Private Prosecution in Thirteenth-Century England
	Daniel Klerman		1
History and Interpretation of the Great Case of Johnson v. M'Intosh
	Eric Kades		67
Forum: Judging Evil. New Departures in Israeli Legal History, Part Two
Judging Evil in the Trial of Kastner
	Leora Bilsky		117
	Comments
	A Man Lost in the Gray Zone
		David Luban	161
	Language, Judgment, and the Holocaust
		Lawrence Douglas	177
	Response
	Judging and Understanding
		Leora Bilsky	183

Book Reviews

The Spirit of Islamic Law--Bernard G. Weiss
	reviewed by David S. Powers	189
The History of English Law: Centenary Essays on "Pollock and Maitland"--John Hudson, ed.
	reviewed by Boyd Breslow	192
Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe--Barbara H. Rosenwein
	reviewed by Adam J. Kosto	194
The Evolution of English Justice: Law, Politics and Society in the Fourteenth Century--Anthony Musson and W. M. Ormrod
	reviewed by Thomas G. Watkin	196
Bibliography of Early American Law--Morris L. Cohen
	reviewed by Whitney S. Bagnall	197
Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673–1800--Eric Hinderaker
	reviewed by Timothy J. Shannon	202
Origins of the Bill of Rights--Leonard W. Levy
	reviewed by Saul Cornell	204
Martin Van Buren: Law, Politics, and the Shaping of Republican Ideology--Jerome Mushkat and Joseph G. Rayback
	reviewed by Robert E. Shalhope	206
American Mobbing, 1828–1861: Toward Civil War--David Grimsted
	reviewed by Christopher Waldrep	208
Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South--Steven Weisenburger
	reviewed by Leslie A. Schwalm	209
Cardozo--Andrew L. Kaufman
	reviewed by Linda Przybyszewski	212
Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity--Amy Bentley
	reviewed by Meg Jacobs	214
Standing against Dragons: Three Southern Lawyers in an Era of Fear--Sarah Hart Brown
	reviewed by Peter Wallenstein	216
When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867–1973--Leslie J. Reagan
	reviewed by Gail Bederman	218
Free Speech in Its Forgotten Years--David M. Rabban
	reviewed by Richard Polenberg	220
With Liberty for Some: 500 Years of Imprisonment in America--Scott Christianson
	reviewed by David S. Tanenhaus	222
The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation, and the Law--Rosemary J. Coombe
	reviewed by Lisa A. Marovich	223
Politics, Punishment, and Populism--Lord Windlesham
	reviewed by Michael A. Bellesiles	225
Death in the Dark: Midnight Executions in America--John D. Bessler, and Death at Midnight: The Confession of an Executioner--Donald A. Cabana
	reviewed by Francis A. Allen	227
Depraved and Disorderly: Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia--Joy Damousi
	reviewed by Wendy Mitchinson	230

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	Christopher Tomlins	232

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