Legal History

The 2000 presidential race resulted in the highest-profile ballot battle in over a century. But it is far from the only American election determine...

In The Life and Death of Freedom of Expression, Richard Moon argues that freedom of expression is valuable because human agency and identity emerge...

This book critically analyzes the state-based regime of international law, eliciting its colonial and decolonial origins and proposing a new sub-re...

This book draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmars genocide and ID schemes to critique prevailing international approaches to...

This book draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmars genocide and ID schemes to critique prevailing international approaches to...

The contributions of socialist thinkers and states to the development of international law often go unrecognized. Socialism and International Law: ...

The Roman Empire's approach to religion has traditionally been described in paradoxical terms. On the one hand, Rome has often been regarded as alm...

Oxford's variorum edition of William Blackstone's seminal treatise on the common law of England and Wales offers the definitive account of the Comm...

Politicians, judges, and citizens commonly use the phrase rule of law to describe some good that flows from a legal system. But what precisely is t...

An Introduction to the Soviet Legal System (1969) sets the main features of modern Soviet law against their background in Russian legal history and...

Marxist Ideology and Soviet Criminal Law (1980) is about differences between theory and practice in the Soviet Union. It looks at the ways in which...

This book offers an interdisciplinary approach that covers linguistics and jurisprudence, shows the interconnectedness of law and language, singles...

This book provides an illuminating commentary of law reform in the early modern era (15001740) and views the moves to improve law and legal institu...

Soviet Russia Fights Crime (1934) examines the workings of the Soviet penal system in the pre-war years of the Soviet Union. It is a valuable insig...

What options did Paul Bernardos lawyer have when his client directed him to retrieve hidden evidence? Where would David Milgaard be today if a lawy...