Legal History

Byzantium was a strange entity--a relic of classical antiquity which survived deep into the Middle Ages. Drawing on a lifetime's work in the field ...

In June 1938, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law a new Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the first major legislation regulating these industries sin...

Focusing on the Supreme Court as an integral part of the policy-making process, Susan Lawrence examines how a change in who has access to the Court...

From the New York Timesbestselling author, a thrilling true crime story of grisly murder, police corruption, and an attorneys work to save an innoc...

This book highlights the broad scope and span of resistance as a contentious practice in the early modern Iberian world.  In this context, from the...

The Spycatcher affair remains one of the most intriguing moments in the history of British intelligence and a pivotal point in the public's relatio...

In International Law and the Public, Geoffrey P.R. Wallace investigates the public as a crucial, often overlooked, actor in international law. He a...

In International Law and the Public, Geoffrey P.R. Wallace investigates the public as a crucial, often overlooked, actor in international law. He a...

In the 1560's and the 1570's, several authors outside of Spain recorded the text of an oath supposedly uttered by the Aragonese people when they re...

Die Prozessordnungen des europäischen Kontinents wurzeln sämtlich im Prozessrecht des Mittelalters, wie es seit dem 12. Jahrhundert an den Universi...

Anticolonial movements of the twentieth century generated ambitious ideas of freedom. Following decolonization, the challenge was to give an instit...

This volume contains the papers presented during a workshop at Ghent University's Financial Law Institute. The aim of the workshop was to confront ...

his book addresses a topic of vivid public discussion at both national and international levels where an information technology revolution comes to...

More and more people are turning to human rights courts to seek protection against prejudice, disadvantage or exclusion on account of their cultura...

Evidence-based medical guidelines are an inescapable element of current medical practice, but how are they developed? This book interrogates what c...

Justinian 's Digest, enacted 533 CE, collects excerpts of high-calibre writings from Roman legal intellectuals, produced in the first and second ce...

A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgmentWhen buildings are deemed ugly, what are the con...

This book asks how, in a time of crisis, medieval citizens developed an independent sense of ethics. Witness testimonies from Marseille's court rec...

On the evening of September 17, 1992, eight leading members of the Iranian and Kurdish opposition had gathered at a little-known restaurant in Berl...

Wise and illuminatingMerrills treatment of the rise of Chevron, and its various twists and turns over the decades, is keenly insightful. Cass R. Su...

In India, judicial review is not a static phenomenon. It has ensured that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and in situations when a...

The Hughes Court: From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941 describes the closing of one era in constitutional jurisprudence and the opening of...

In 1960, consensual sodomy was a crime in every state in America. Fifty-five years later, the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples had the fun...

A poignant, multi-generational saga of a mixed-race family in the US West and South from the antebellum period through the rise of Jim Crow. When ...

The arrival of Europeans in Aotearoa brought about an inevitable clash between the laws and values of Maori societies and those of the newcomers. ...

There were tens of thousands of different local law-courts in late-medieval England, providing the most common forums for the working out of disput...

A delight from start to finish SUNDAY TIMES A triumph of ingenuity DAILY MAIL I loved it! ... A whiff of Shardlake and a pinch of Rumpole ... a jo...

An engaging account of social reformer Jack Robbins, the Boys Brotherhood Republic, and their legacy. In 1914, social reformer Jack Robbins and a g...