The Magna Carta, or “Great Charter” — to which England’s King John affixed his seal June 15, 1215, 810 years ago Sunday — was essentially a peace treaty that was intended to end a civil war between ...

President Donald Trump is facing sharp criticism over his sweeping, multi-front attack on the U.S. Court of International Trade, an influential conservative legal activist who shaped his first-term ...

A pair of U.K. scholars discovered the mislabeled document in Harvard Law School's digital archives. The university bought it for just $27.50 in... Harvard learned it has an authentic Magna Carta. In ...

In 1946, Harvard Law School paid $27.50 for a replica of the Magna Carta — or so the school thought. Turns out, the document, which was purchased for around $500 in today’s money, is actually an ...

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 ...

British researchers have discovered that a document long thought to be just a copy of Magna Carta at Harvard Law School is actually a rare original from the year 1300. This finding was made by experts ...

It wasn't exactly like the big reveal on the Antiques Roadshow. But one day in December 2023, David Carpenter, a professor of medieval history at King's College London, was searching through the ...