Law and History Review

Aims & Scope

Law and History Review (LHR), America"s leading legal history journal, encompasses American, European, and ancient legal history issues.

The journal"s purpose is to further research in the fields of the social history of law and the history of legal ideas and institutions.

LHR features articles, essays, commentaries by international authorities, and reviews of important books on legal history.

American Society for Legal History

Metrics & Ranking

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• The Strange Career of the Illegal Alien: Immigration Restriction and Deportation Policy in the United States, 1921–1965

  Citation: 116

  Authors: Mae M.

• Why<i>Terra Nullius?</i>Anthropology and Property Law in Early Australia

  Citation: 104

  Authors: Stuart

• Acquiring Empire by Law: From Roman Doctrine to Early Modern European Practice

  Citation: 95

  Authors: Lauren, Benjamin

• Codification and the Rule of Colonial Difference: Criminal Procedure in British India

  Citation: 75

  Authors: Elizabeth

• Laissez-Faire and Liberty: A Re-Evaluation of the Meaning and Origins Of Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism

  Citation: 69

  Authors: Michael

• Scales of Justice: Defense Counsel and the English Criminal Trial in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

  Citation: 46

  Authors: J. M.

• Slave Law and Claims-Making in Cuba: The Tannenbaum Debate Revisited

  Citation: 43

  Authors: Alejandro

• The Origins of Property in England

  Citation: 37

  Authors: Robert C.

• When All the Women Were White, and All the Blacks Were Men: Gender, Class, Race, and the Road to<i>Plessy</i>, 1855–1914

  Citation: 34

  Authors: Barbara Y.

• Settlement and the Decline of Private Prosecution in Thirteenth-Century England

  Citation: 34

  Authors: Daniel