Legal History

Arbitration and Mediation In Nineteenth-Century England rounds off Derek Roebucks series on the history of English arbitration, and is written by h...

John Milton is widely known as the poet of liberty and freedom. But his commitment to justice has been often overlooked. As Alison A. Chapman shows...

The Bourgeois Charm of Karl Marx & the Ideological Irony of American Jurisprudence employs a well-known body of work, Marx's, to explain the in...

'The king can do no wrong' remains one of the most fundamental yet misunderstood tenets of the common law tradition. Confusion over the phrase's hi...

The Civil Rights Act of 1875, enacted March 1, 1875, banned racial discrimination in public accommodationshotels, public conveyances, and places of...

Legal Education in the Western World provides an encompassing history of legal education from Ancient Rome to present day Europe and the Americas. ...

Legal Education in the Western World provides an encompassing history of legal education from Ancient Rome to present day Europe and the Americas. ...

More than thirty years ago, section 35 of the Constitution Act recognized and affirmed the existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal ...

The widespread use of digital media today and its possibilities for distribution and reproduction are moving intellectual property rights into the ...

A revealing yet accessible examination of the Nuremberg trial, and most crucially all 23 men who stood accused, not just the most infamousSpeer, He...

An authoritative reassessment of one of the Third Reichs most notorious war criminals, whose alleged sexual barbarism made her a convenient scapego...

The Nazi trials in the Federal Republic were a forum in which the crimes of National Socialism were tried as early as the early post-war period. Th...

The most authoritative account of a pivotal event in legal and cultural history: the trials of Oscar Wilde on charges of gross indecency   Among th...

The legal meaning of bankruptcy and insolvency law has often remained elusive, even to practitioners and scholars in the field, despite having been...

Its a girl! As the Ontario press announced, Canadas first woman lawyer was called to the Ontario bar in February 1897. Quiet Rebels explores experi...

A rigorous analysis of systemic misogyny in the law and a thoughtful exploration of the tools needed to transcend it through constitutional change ...

[A] learned and thoughtful portrayal of the history of race relations in Americaauthoritative and highly readable[An] impressive work.Randall Kenne...

What happens to Buddhist monks and nuns who commit crimes? Buddhism in Court is the first book to uncover an important, yet long-overlooked, Buddhi...

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

This publication, issued in cooperation with the Selden Society, reproduces completely the Yale edition of 1915-1942, which has long been unobtaina...

How has the modern conservative movement thrived in spite of the lack of harmony among its constituent members? What, and who, holds together its l...

A rigorous analysis of systemic misogyny in the law and a thoughtful exploration of the tools needed to transcend it through constitutional change ...

Before international relations in the West, there were Christian-infidel relations. Infidels and Empires in a New World Order decenters the dominan...