Legal History

Thomas Byers Memorial Outstanding Publication Award from the University of Akron Law Alumni Association Much has been written about women’s rights...

In this groundbreaking study of the relations between workers and the state, Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker examine the legal regulation of workers' co...

Arthur Ray's extensive knowledge in the history of the fur trade and Native economic history brought him into the courts as an expert witness in th...

In jurisprudential writing, single decisions are often held up as representative without any evidence to support their representative claims. In or...

In the first modern biography of Lord Mansfield (1705-1793), Norman Poser details the turbulent political life of eighteenth-century Britain's most...

Arthur Ray's extensive knowledge in the history of the fur trade and Native economic history brought him into the courts as an expert witness in th...

Debt was an inescapable fact of life in early America. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, its sinfulness was preached by ministers and the...

This book assesses the historical significance of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE)—commonly called the Tokyo trial—esta...

As the leading legal historian of his generation in Canada and professor at McGill University for over three decades, Blaine Baker (1952–2018) was ...

A historical and legal examination of the conflict and interplay between settler and indigenous laws in the New World As British and Iberian empire...

From the 1890s onwards, social reformers, volunteer lawyers, and politicians increasingly came to see access to affordable or free legal advice as ...

This ground-breaking book challenges the widespread view that sex and homosexuality were unmentionable in the USSR. The Khrushchev and Brezhnev era...

This open access book explores the intertwined histories of mapmaking and copyright law in Britain from the early modern period up to World War 1, ...

A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today.Hailed as the "first freedom," free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is ...

Theories of Legal Relations is an astute examination of existing legal systems that explores the notion of legal relationships and frameworks, usin...

Belles résidences, domestiques, voyages… la vie des dames de la bourgeoisie, au début du 20e siècle, n'avait rien à voir avec le quotidien des ména...

A fresh perspective on a crucial time for courts, policing and punishment. Shows how individuals, concerned parties and vested interests drove many...

A compelling account of how women shaped the common law right to privacy during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Drawing on a weal...

"A definitive history of the case...notable alike for its clarity and its fairness...Professors Joughin and Morgan conclude that Sacco and Vanzetti...

During the Victorian era, new laws allowed more witnesses to testify in court cases. At the same time, an emerging cultural emphasis on truth-telli...

Russian Citizenship is the first book to trace the Russian state’s citizenship policy throughout its history. Focusing on the period from the mid-n...

This groundbreaking book is the first to look at administration and administrative law in the earliest days of the American republic. Jerry Mashaw ...

While innovative ideas and creative works increasingly drive economic success, the historic approach to encouraging innovation and creativity by gr...

Rejecting the extreme arguments of today's debates, the author examines what the framers of the Constitution actually said about religious freedom ...

The never-before published autobiography of Raphael Lemkin, a giant among twentieth-century ethical thinkers Among the greatest intellectual heroes...

How much economic freedom is a good thing?  This book tells the story of how the business community, and the trade associations and think tanks tha...

In a brilliant comparative study of law and imperialism, Lisa Ford argues that modern settler sovereignty emerged when settlers in North America an...

Why should a property interest exist in an intangible item? In recent years, arguments over intellectual property have often divided proponents—who...

Richard Mendelson brings together his expertise as both a Napa Valley lawyer and a winemaker into this accessible overview of American wine law fro...

This collection brings together historians, political theorists and literary scholars to provide historical perspectives on the modern debate over ...

The front pages of our newspapers and the lead stories on the evening news bear witness to the divorce of law from justice. The rich and famous get...

Examines legal and literary narratives of personhood in the 19th century Traces the concept of character through related areas of law, cultural d...

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the principal legal landmarks in the evolution of the law of the established Church of Engla...

Through analysis of 5 plays by Shakespeare, Paul Raffield examines what it meant to be a ‘stranger’ to English law in the late Elizabethan and earl...

Brings together 15 principal essays by David Sellar (1941 2019), reflecting his pioneering contribution to Scottish legal history Groups essays i...