As its 800th anniversary approached, I noticed Australians citing Magna Carta in response to the latest of Tony Abbott’s proposed laws curtailing human rights and civil liberties. Abbott’s plan to ...
A British academic was poring over Harvard Law School’s digitized collection from his home southeast of London on a rainy day in December 2023 when he noticed something was not as it seemed. Tucked ...
The discovery that Harvard unknowingly had an original of the 1300 Magna Carta, the document that moved human history a small but significant step forward by obliging a monarch to respect the rights ...