Legal History

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

Tirades against legal theatrics are nearly as old as law itself, and yet so is the age-old claim that law must not merely be done: it must be seen ...

The story behind the historic Mineral King Valley case, which reveals how the Sierra Club battled Disneys ski resort development and launched a new...

Throughout Oceania, land is central to identity because it is understood to be spiritually nourishing and sustaining. Land is the mother. Land, and...

Stephen Bright emerged on the scene as a cause lawyer in the early decades of mass incarceration, when inflammatory politics and harsh changes to c...

In Bedford, the Supreme Court struck down prohibitions against communicating in public for the purpose of sex work, living on its avails, and worki...

After the fall of military and communist dictatorships at the end of the 1980s, Latin American and Eastern European countries had to reckon with at...

After the fall of military and communist dictatorships at the end of the 1980s, Latin American and Eastern European countries had to reckon with at...

After the fall of military and communist dictatorships at the end of the 1980s, Latin American and Eastern European countries had to reckon with at...

Islamic legal theory (usūl al-fiqh) is literally regarded as the roots of the law whilst Islamic jurists consider it to be the basis of Islamic ju...

A powerful analysis of how regulation of the movement of enslaved and free black people produced a national immigration policy in the period betwee...

The book provides rule-by-rule commentaries on European contract law (general contract law, consumer contract law, the law of sale and related serv...

Americas debates over secularism are not what they seem. Far from being primarily about religion and its place in politics, these battles over ill-...

American law schools extol democracy but teach little about its most basic institution, the Congress. Interpreting statutes is lawyers most basic t...

Contemporary research on the genealogy of human rights and the foundations of international law has brought renewed interest to the study of natura...

Explores the variety of legal and regulatory regimes that existed in Western Europe to control labour and how workers experienced those controls. ...

In Bedford, the Supreme Court struck down prohibitions against communicating in public for the purpose of sex work, living on its avails, and worki...

What was it like to be a woman in service in early modern England? Drawing on evidence recorded in church court testimony, Mansell excavates experi...

Though widely regarded as a founder of the modern field of psychology and law, German-American psychologist Hugo Münsterberg now century-old ideas ...

Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe shows that Muslims were citizens of modern Europe from its beginning and, in the process, rethinks Europe i...

The guiding principle of peacemaking and peacebuilding over the past quarter century has been liberal peace: the promotion of democracy, capitalism...

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...

The book deals with (unfortunately) a highly relevant question of extraordinary measures adopted in many countries in connection with the recent pa...

Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photogra...

This book traces the life and legacy of a German Jewish lawyer, F A Mann, who moved to the UK in 1933 fleeing racial persecution from Germany, and ...

Circumventing the Law probes the rabbinic logic behind the use of loopholes, the legal phenomenon of finding and using gaps within law to achieve o...

Why are we still arguing over the Parthenon Marbles? This book offers a fresh take on the history of those famous pieces of ancient sculpture remov...

In medieval Italy the practice of revenge as criminal justice was still popular amongst members of all social classes, yet crime also was increasin...

This book is a long overdue reappraisal of Lord Hewart (Lord Chief Justice 1922-1940) and his book The New Despotism (1929). Following a brief biog...

When the US Constitution won widespread popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of decades of passionate argument about legal and politica...

Aron Zysow's 1984 PhD dissertation, 'The Economy of Certainty,' remains the most important, compelling, and intellectually ambitious treatment of I...

Reparations for Slavery in International Law examines the case for contemporary redress for the harms and legacies of transatlantic enslavement fro...

With more than forty years in practice, including fourteen years on the federal bench, and informed by hundreds of conversations with other lawyers...

Unique and well-researched, this study concentrates on the right to keep and bear arms and analyzes the incorporation of the Bill of Rights into th...

The evolution of China's legal tradition was one of the most striking aspects of the transformation of Chinese civilization under Mongolian dominat...

A groundbreaking history of fengshuis roles in public life and law during Chinas last imperial dynastyToday the term fengshui, which literally mean...

Saskia Lettmaier explores what is arguably the greatest transformation to have occurred within the Western law of marriage in the last five hundred...

The Formation of English Common Law provides a comprehensive overview of the development of early English law, one of the classic subjects of medie...

What should be done about cultural property confiscated in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR? This legal appraisal commissioned by the Deutsch...

The Law of Nations and the United States Constitution offers a new lens through which anyone interested in constitutional governance in the United ...

Throws much new light on questions of gentry honour, the nature and prevalence of early modern elite violence, and the process of judicial investig...