It was written over 1,000 years ago, and commissioned by an English King – so what makes the Magna Carta one of the most ...

Boston — Harvard University for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and faded document it had purchased for less than $30. But two researchers have ...

Harvard Law School bought a 1327 copy of the Magna Carta from legal book dealer Sweet & Maxwell for $27.50 in 1946. Nearly eight decades later, two researchers have discovered it's actually an ...

This course examines the roles that Magna Carta has played historically as well as the importance of Magna Carta today. It aims to equip students with a critical understanding of Magna Carta and its ...

A rare original Magna Carta, misidentified and sold “for a fairly derisory price”, has been uncovered 80 years after it was wrongly catalogued. The remarkable discovery was made by Professor David ...

At AEI on Thursday, Philip Hamburger of Columbia Law School argued that the Magna Carta is important, not so much for what it says, but for what it reveals about the enduring danger of absolute power ...

Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like Bustle, LAMag, and HelloGiggles. Spencer Grant/GHI/UCG/Universal Images ...

Papua New Guinea demonstrates the continuing influence of Magna Carta principles on constitutional rights and the rule of law ...