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The Quill Project exists to enhance understanding of some of the foundational legal texts of the modern world. By combining traditional historical and archival research with advanced digital modelling techniques, the project explores the context within which constitutional conventions, legislative assemblies, and other formal groups made decisions.
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The Scottish Court of Session Project: Learning from Legal Archives with Jim Ambuske
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In this episode, Grace talks to Dr Jim Ambuske, digital historian in residence at the Washington Library in Mount Vernon, Virginia, about his extensive work in digital legal history. Legal history is a daunting topic for many scholars, especially if they lack formal training in the law. But legal treatises, court records, and other remnants of hist…
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Authoritarian Constitutionalism with Paul Fisher
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Grace Mallon talks to Paul Fisher, a practising barrister and academic lawyer, about his research into constitutional law in post-Soviet non-democracies. Constitutionalism is something we often associate with limited government and the protection of the rights of citizens. But democracies aren’t the only governments with constitutions. Since the Ag…
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Douglass Day and the Colored Conventions Project: Nineteenth-Century Black Activism with Denise Burgher and Jim Casey
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The Quill Project Conventions Podcast Grace Mallon talks to Denise Burgher and Jim Casey about the Colored Conventions Project, a digital project reconstructing the history of the Colored Conventions movement of the nineteenth century, and about Douglass Day, their annual community history event in honour of the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglas…
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Reconstructing Reconstruction: Constitutionalism and the End of Slavery with Kiana McAllister and Erica Croft
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Grace Mallon talks to Kiana McAllister and Erica Croft about the work they're doing on the Reconstruction Amendments with Quill, and what this original research can tell us about these brief, but transformative items of American Constitutional law.By Grace Mallon, Kiana McAllister, Erica Croft
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Hidden Laws: State Constitutions and National Change with Robinson Woodward-Burns
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Grace Mallon and Nicholas Cole talk to Robinson Woodward-Burns about his new book 'Hidden Laws: How State Constitutions Stabilise American Politics.'By Grace Mallon, Robinson Woodward-Burns, Nicholas Cole
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Poor Lord Wensleydale: A Beginner's Guide to the British Constitution with Robert Saunders
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Grace Mallon and Nicholas Cole talk to Robert Saunders about what makes Britain's constitution unique and what challenges it faces in a turbulent period for UK politics and government.By Grace Mallon, Nicholas Cole, Robert Saunders
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Accident and Force: Making American Constitutions with Nicholas Cole
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Grace Mallon and Nicholas Cole discuss how a historian learns to code, where the idea of a Constitutional Convention came from, and what's next for the Quill Project.By Grace Mallon, Nicholas Cole
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