| Contents | Law and History Review, 26.3

Vol. 26, No. 3

Fall 2008


Editorial Staff

In This Issue	vii

Articles

Part I. The Conduct of War in the Ancient World and Early Islamic History

The Laws of War in Ancient Greece
Adriaan Lanni	469

Aliens, Ambassadors, and the Integrity of the Empire
Clifford Ando	491

Early Islamic Legal-Historical Precedents: Prisoners of War
Lena Salaymeh	521

Part II. Religious Thought in the Protestant Reformation and the American Civil War

Rights, Resistance, and Revolution in the Western Tradition: Early Protestant Foundations
John Witte, Jr.	545

Sovereign Silences and the Voice of War in the American Conflict over Slavery
David F. Holland	571

Part III. Governing Space in International Law

From International Law to Imperial Constitutions: The Problem of Quasi-Sovereignty, 1870–1900
Lauren Benton	595

The Origins of the Concept of Belligerent Occupation
Eyal Benvenisti	621

Taking Legal Realism Offshore: The Contributions of Joseph Walter Bingham to American Jurisprudence and to the Reform of Modern Ocean Law
Harry N. Scheiber	649

Part IV. Law, War, and Human Rights

A New Deal for the Nuremberg Trial: The Limits of Law in Generating Human Rights Norms
Elizabeth Borgwardt	679

Exceptionalism Again: The Bush Administration, the "Global War on Terror," and Human Rights
Rosemary Foot	707

Book Reviews

Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy: The Presidents, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History—Keith E. Whittington
reviewed by Walter Murphy	727

History of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Birth of the Modern Constitution: The United States Supreme Court, 1941–1953—William M. Wiecek
reviewed by Sanford Levinson	730

Dark Speech: The Performance of Law in Early Ireland—Robin Chapman Stacey
reviewed by Lisa Bitel	732

Law, City, and King: Legal Culture, Municipal Politics, and State Formation in Early Modern Dijon—Michael P. Breen
reviewed by Gail Bossenga	733

Bridges, Law and Power in Medieval England, 700–1400—Alan Cooper
reviewed by Victoria D. List	735

Power over the Body, Equality in the Family: Rights and Domestic Relations in Medieval Canon Law—Charles J. Reid, Jr.
reviewed by Kenneth Pennington	737

Law Courts and Lawyers in the City of London, 1300–1550—Penny Tucker
reviewed by Daniel Klerman	738

Poynings' Law and the Making of Law in Ireland, 1660–1800—James Kelly
reviewed by T. C. Barnard	740

Public Passions: The Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the Rise of Popular Sympathy in Republican China—Eugenia Lean
reviewed by Matthew H. Sommer	741

New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan—Jill Lepore
reviewed by T. J. Davis	743

Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution—Woody Holton
reviewed by Robert G. Parkinson	745

Originalism, Federalism, and the American Constitutional Enterprise: A Historical Inquiry—Edward A. Purcell, Jr.
reviewed by Calvin Massey	746

The Story of Cruel & Unusual—Colin Dayan
reviewed by Elizabeth Dale	748

Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island: From British Colonization to the Escheat Movement—Rusty Bittermann
reviewed by Thomas J. Humphrey	749

Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture—Jeannine Marie DeLombard
reviewed by Sarah Nelson Roth	751

An Honest Calling: The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln—Mark E. Steiner
reviewed by Polly J. Price	753

Lincoln the Lawyer—Brian Dirck
reviewed by Mark Steiner	754

In the Wake of Slavery: Civil War, Civil Rights, and the Reconstruction of Southern Law—Joseph A. Ranney
reviewed by Timothy S. Huebner	755

The Failure of Corporate Law: Fundamental Flaws and Progressive Possibilities—Kent Greenfield
reviewed by Kenneth M. Rosen	757

Under Cover of Science: American Legal-Economic Theory and the Quest for Objectivity—James R. Hackney, Jr.
reviewed by Dalia Tsuk	759

Deportation Nation: Outsiders in American History—Daniel Kanstroom
reviewed by Hiroshi Motomura	760

Street Justice: A History of Police Violence in New York City—Marilynn S. Johnson
reviewed by Mae C. Quinn	762

Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction—Thomas K. McCraw
reviewed by Ron Harris	764

Wives without Husbands: Marriage, Desertion, and Welfare in New York, 1900–1935—Anna R. Igra
reviewed by Joanna Grossman	766

The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison—Kathleen A. Cairns
reviewed by Sara Manaugh	767

Magistrates, Police, and People: Everyday Criminal Justice in Quebec and Lower Canada, 1764–1837—Donald Fyson
reviewed by Bruno Aubusson de Cavarlay	769

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