Legal History

One of the great paradoxes of post-medieval Europe, is why instead of bringing peace to a disorganised and violent world, modernity instead produce...

Contributing an original dimension to the significant body of published scholarship on women in 16th-century England, this study examines the large...

The debate about when the middle ages ended and the modern era began, has long been a staple of the historical literature. In order to further this...

Looking at the experiences of women in early modern Portugal in the context of crime and forgiveness, this study demonstrates the extent to which j...

This book reveals the neglected world of the English manorial tenure of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is rooted in landmark legislatio...

Judicial equity developed in England during the medieval period, providing an alternative access to justice for cases that the rigid structures of ...

Modern criminal courts are characteristically the domain of lawyers, with trials conducted in an environment of formality and solemnity, where fact...

State Trials, Volume II (first published in 1972) contains cases concerned with witchcraft, the scandals of the prisons, and colonial administratio...

State Trials, Volume I (first published in 1972) contains cases concerned with treason and the freedom of press gathered from the full edition of S...

Co-Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial PrizeA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors ChoiceA Wall Street J...

Trials of Sovereignty offers the first legal history of mercy and discretion in nineteenth and twentieth-century India. Through a study of large-sc...

First published in 1934, International Narcotics Control is concerned with dangerous drugs solely as a subject of international administration. The...

THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW BRITISH PRIME MINISTER Required reading for anyone who has an i...

In 1973, three young lawyers established Heenan Blaikie. It would become one of Canadas highest-profile law firms, counting former prime ministers,...

Following the 100th anniversary of Pashukanis General Theory of Law and Marxism (1924), this volume aims to breathe new life into the main category...

A Forgotten Migration tells the little-known story of segregation scholarships awarded by states in the US South to Black students seeking graduate...

The Uses of Justice in Global Perspective, 16001900 presents a new perspective on the uses of justice between 1600 and 1900 and confronts prevailin...

Saint Antoninus of Florence was a Dominican friar and archbishop of Florence from 1446 to 1459. He composed one of the most comprehensive manuals o...

In Soldiers Paradise, Samuel Fury Childs Daly tells the story of how Africas military dictators tried and failed to transform their societies into ...

In Soldiers Paradise, Samuel Fury Childs Daly tells the story of how Africas military dictators tried and failed to transform their societies into ...

The only biography of Americas most controversial lawyer.Legal Gladiator is the story of perhaps the greatest lawyer in American history. It is the...

After the fall of the Porfirio Díaz regime, pueblo representatives sent hundreds of petitions to Pres. Francisco I. Madero, demanding that the exec...

To what extent did English law facilitate trade before the advent of general incorporation and modern securities law? This is the question at the h...

International laws governing the conduct of war and the behaviour of soldiers on the field of battle is a topic of strong academic and legal intere...

Tadashi Ishikawa traces perceptions and practices of gender in the Japanese empire on the occasion of Japan's colonisation of Taiwan from 1895 . In...

A Degraded Caste of Society traces the origins of twenty-first-century cases of interracial violence, such as the February 2020 murder of Ahmaud Ar...

In Judicial Territory, Shaina Potts reveals how the American empire has benefited from the post-World War II expansion of United States judicial au...

Disability and Medieval Law: History, Literature and Society is an intervention in the growing and complex field of medieval disability studies. Th...

The Supreme Court and the Philosopher illustrates how the modern US Supreme Court has increasingly adopted a view of the constitutional right to th...

Law across imperial borders offers new perspectives on the complex legal connections between Britains presence in Western China in the western fron...

Presents a powerful argument for the limitations of judicial action to support significant social reformnow updated with new data and analysis.   S...

The leading U.S. expert on abortion law charts the many meanings associated with Roe v. Wade during its fifty-year history   Ziegler sets a brisk p...

This book explores the transformation of the state in Wallachia, an Ottoman tributary principality, between 1740 and 1800, by focusing on three adm...