Legal History

Throughout the War of Resistance against Japan (19311945), the Chinese Nationalist government punished collaborators with harsh measures, labeling ...

The European Court of Human Rights has long held unparalleled sway over questions of human rights violations across continental Europe, Britain, an...

2019 Independent Publisher Book Award Winner (Gold) in U.S. History If youve ever seen an episode of Law and Order, you can probably recite your Mi...

Each legal system has its peculiarities and the Dutch legal system is no exception. To understand a legal system profoundly, it is not enough to st...

Michigan is the only state in the country that has a death penalty prohibition in its constitution - Eugene G. Wangers compelling arguments against...

The Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917-1918 mark one of the most controversial moments in American history. Even as President Woodrow Wilson justi...

This book presents an in-depth exploration of the administration of justice during Islams founding period, 6321250 CE. Inspired by the scholarship ...

Attuned to the social contexts within which laws are created, feminist lawyers, historians, and activists have long recognized the discontinuities ...

It is a medieval truism that the poet meddles with words, the lawyer with the world. But are the poets words and the lawyers world really so far ap...

Some of the earliest examples of medieval canon law are penitentials - texts enumerating the sins a confessor might encounter among laypeople or ot...

This book provides a detailed analysis of womens involvement in litigation and other legal actions within their local communities in late-medieval ...

On October 24, 1588, Paolo Barbieri murdered his wife, Isabella Caccianemici, stabbing her to death with his sword. Later, Paolo would claim to hav...

This book tells the story of constitutional government in America during the period of the 'social question'. After the Civil War and Reconstructio...

On October 24, 1588, Paolo Barbieri murdered his wife, Isabella Caccianemici, stabbing her to death with his sword. Later, Paolo would claim to hav...

As torts and as crimes, champerty and maintenance were abolished by statute in England and Wales in 1967. They were considered to be obsolete and t...

This book is a broad and deep inquiry into how contingency fees distort our civil justice system, influence our political system and endanger democ...

This magisterial study, ten years in the making by one of the field's most distinguished historians, will be the first to explore the impact fugiti...

Law and the Formation of Modern Europe explores processes of legal construction in both the national and supranational domains, and it provides an ...

This book re-examines fundamental assumptions about the American legal profession and the boundaries between 'professional' lawyers, 'lay' lawyers,...

Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America - a history of colonizing, work and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on ...

This volume seeks to explain how American society, which had been capable of noble aspirations such as those in the Declaration of Independence and...

Modern-day tax treaties have their foundations in one of the three Model Tax Treaties developed by the League of Nations in 1928. Using previously ...

This is the engaging and accessible intellectual memoir of a leading jurist. It tells the story of the development of his thoughts and writings ove...

Religious freedom is one of the most debated and controversial human rights in contemporary public discourse. At once a universally held human righ...

Ever since the rise of Adolf Hitler, mental health professionals have sought to use their knowledge of human psychology to understand - and interve...

The First Amendment to the US Constitution protects free speech, freedom of the press, freedom of association and assembly, and the right to petiti...

Governing Islam traces the colonial roots of contemporary struggles between Islam and secularism in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The book uncov...

A historian traces the origins of the modern law-and-order state to a surprising source: the liberal policies of the New Deal.Most Americans rememb...

Why are certain responses to past human rights violations considered instances of transitional justice while others are disregarded? This study int...

Demands for redress of historical injustice are a crucial component of contemporary struggles for social and transnational justice. However, unders...

This book challenges the recently established consensus that the trial was a carefully prepared and executed judicial process in which the judges w...

Lawmen were crucial to the economic wellbeing of medieval nunneries; this book looks at the relationship between them and how cases were conducted....

A study of the implications and practices of wills and will-making in Anglo-Saxon society, and of the varieties of inheritance strategies and comme...

Ephrem, one of the earliest Syriac Christian writers, lived on the eastern outskirts of the Roman Empire during the fourth century. Although he wro...

With its roots in ancient Greece, Roman law and Christianity, European legal history is the history of a common civilisation. The exchange of legis...

A study of how English legal culture, with its strong emphasis on common law, engaged with the new ideas of the Enlightenment. This book explores ...

William H. Williams operated a slave pen in Washington, DC, known as the Yellow House, and actively trafficked in enslaved men, women, and children...

From the trial of Socrates to the post-9/11 military commissions, trials have always been useful instruments of politics. Yet there is still much t...

In 1783, a stamp duty was imposed on proprietary or 'quack' medicines. These largely useless but often dangerous remedies were immensely popular. T...

It is a fundamental term of the social contract that people trade allegiance for protection. In the nineteenth century, as millions of people made ...

How will Ireland redress its legacy of institutional abuse? What constitutes justice? What is Transitional Justice? How might democracy evolve if s...

Congressman James Mitchell Ashley, a member of the House of Representatives from 1858 to 1868, was the main sponsor of the Thirteenth Amendment to ...