Legal History

This collection of fourteen essays written by young communication scholars at the University of Arkansas presents unique insights into how First Am...

As featured on CBS Saturday Morning. Finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize. In Judgment and Mercy, Martin J. Siegel...

Great cases are those judicial decisions around which the common law develops. This book explores eight exemplary cases from the United Kingdom, th...

Comparative studies can reveal much about how law is formed out of social reality and political power by exploring these interactions in different ...

Historians of the English legal profession have written comparatively little about the lawyers who served in the courts of the Church. This volume ...

The history of international adjudication is all too often presented as a triumphalist narrative of normative and institutional progress that casts...

The Russian Empire and its legal institutions have often been associated with arbitrariness, corruption, and the lack of a 'rule of law'. Stefan B....

While almost everyone has heard of human rights, few will have reflected in depth on what human rights are, where they originate from and what they...

The United Nations estimates that four billion people worldwide live outside the protection of the law. These people can be driven from their land,...

Written in memory of Christopher W. Brooks, this collection of essays by prominent historians examines and builds on the scholarly legacy of the le...

All of us are entitled to the protections of law against violence, to a high quality education, to decent employment that respects our dignity, and...

All of us are entitled to the protections of law against violence, to a high quality education, to decent employment that respects our dignity, and...

This is a study of a progressive law firm and its three partners. The firm was founded in 1936 and existed until the death of one partner in 1965. ...

An analysis of how problematic laws ought to be framed and considered From the murder of George Floyd to the systematic dismantling of voting right...

Thomas Duppa who was Black Rod from 1683-1694 compiled The Commonplace Book for his own use. It sheds vital light not only on how the Lords was man...

In this book, Omar Farahat presents a new way of understanding the work of classical Islamic theologians and legal theorists who maintained that di...

A great deal of contemporary law has a direct connection to the Holocaust. That connection, however, is seldom acknowledged in legal texts and has ...

The most unique and important of all early American law reports are those of Josiah Quincy Jr. (1744-1775). These are the first reports of continen...

What the letter books of a Galashiels lawyer reveal about the life of his community Presents the first detailed historical study of a local lawyer...