Legal History

In The Supreme Court under Morrison R. Waite, 1874-1888, Paul Kens provides a history of the Court during a time that began in the shadow of the Ci...

This volume tells the story of the interaction between Christianity and law-historically and today, in the traditional heartlands of Christianity a...

Die 1812 während des Volksaufstands gegen die französische Besatzung geschaffene Verfassung, nach ihrem Entstehungsort Constitución de Cádiz benann...

Das Buch behandelt die Geschichte der Rechtsanwaltskammer Hamm ab ihrer Gründung im Jahre 1879. Da diese in die Geschichte der deutschen Anwaltscha...

Die beiden Hauptwerke Ulpians, die gleichsam den Grundstock der europäischen Rechtswissenschaft bilden, gelten seit einem Jahrhundert als lemmatisc...

Die Arbeit beschreibt den legislatorischen Anpassungsversuch an die dynamische Technikentwicklung auf dem Gebiet des Computer- und Internetstrafrec...

'Compulsively readable' Times Literary Supplement 'An outstanding work' Philippa Gregory ...

'Compulsively readable' Times Literary Supplement 'An outstanding work' Philippa Gregory ...

The captivating story of how a diverse group of women, including Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broke the glass ceiling and changed the modern...

No American citys history better illustrates both the possibilities for alternative racial models and the role of the law in shaping racial identit...

Beware Euphoria uncovers the roots of America's moral obsession with drug regulation, offering a lively and fascinating history of the nation's rac...

A unique introduction to the constitutional arguments for and against the right to abortion In January 1973, the Supreme Courts opinion in Roe v. W...

Judicial debates on the regulation of religion in post-colonial India have been characterised by the inability of courts to identify religion as a ...

This wide-ranging volume advances our understanding of law and empire in the early modern world. Distinguished contributors expose new dimensions o...

Current histories seem to suggest that men alone have been capable of the development of ideas, analysis, and practice of international law until t...

At a time of intense polarisation about the value of human rights, this edited volume brings together leading scholars in international law and int...

In this volume of essays a group of scholars from Europe, Japan, the Republic of China, and the United States examines China's legal tradition to d...

What can early Jewish courtroom narratives tell us about the capacity and limits of human justice? By exploring how judges and the act of judging a...

A compendium of creative strategies for building the world we want, this book . . . models the myriad ways that people can make a difference in the...

Many legal theorists maintain that laws are effective because we internalize them, obeying even when not compelled to do so. In a comprehensive rea...

Anyone who wants to understand how abortion has been treated historically in the western legal tradition must first come to terms with two quite di...

Shifts across the corpus of international law have brought the international legal system into a closer alignment with the interests of the individ...

Laws of the Constitution: Consolidated gathers all of the historical and contemporary constitutional documents pertaining to Canada, its provinces,...

In Cattle Lords and Clansmen, Nerys Patterson provides an analysis of the social structure of medieval Ireland, focusing on the pre-Norman period. ...

Bringing together specialists in ancient history, archaeology and Roman law, this book provides new perspectives on long-distance trade in the Roma...

In Bezug auf das Problem des rechtswidrigen Rechts herrschte eine Kontroverse zwischen zwei Schülern Hans Kelsens (1881-1973): Adolf Julius Merkl (...

Long before the Supreme Court ruled that impoverished defendants in criminal cases have a right to free counsel, Philadelphias public defenders wer...

Honorable Mention, 2017 Scribes Book Award, The American Society of Legal Writers At the dawn of the twentieth century, the United States was reeli...

The commonly held view about English administrative law is that it is of recent origin, with some dating it from the mid-20th century and some vent...

The nineteenth century has been understood as an age in which states could wage war against each other if they deemed it politically necessary. Acc...

Fred Korematsus decision to resist F.D.R.s Executive Order 9066, which provided authority for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War...

How did the division of power work in Ancient Greece? This groundbreaking study reveals Ancient Greek political decision-making to be a multi-layer...

THE TRUTH WILL ENDURE. IT MUST.But our history is in danger of being rewritten by the progressive left and the woke mob.In PROFILES IN FREEDOM: HER...

Der Literaturwissenschaftler Walter Müller-Seidel zählt zu den einflussreichsten Vertretern seines Faches. Weit über dessen Grenzen hinaus setzte e...

Paris, 1599. At the end of the French Wars of Religion, the widow Renée Chevalier instigated the prosecution of the military captain Mathurin Delac...

Auf der Suche nach einem materiellen Schuldbegriff folgt der Autor unterschiedlichen Begründungsansätzen von Schuld. Ausgehend vom Menschen als mit...

For more than century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading ...