Legal History

Combining socio-legal and ethnohistorical studies, this book presents the history of doodem, or clan identification markings, left by Anishinaabe o...

In this absorbing narrative, Barry E.C. Boothman traces the history of Abitibi Power & Paper Limited alongside the rise and fall of the newspri...

A History of Law in Canada is an important three-volume project. Volume One begins at a time just prior to European contact and continues to the 18...

In 1880 the federal Parliament of Canada repealed the Insolvent Act of 1875, leaving debtor-creditor matters to be regulated by the provinces. Almo...

In the early history of Halifax (1749-1766), debt litigation was extremely common. People from all classes frequently used litigation and its use i...

In Christopher Moores lively and engaging history of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, he traces the evolution of one of Canadas most influential co...

Reinventing Bankruptcy Law explodes conventional wisdom about the history of the Companies Creditors Arrangement Act and in its place offers the fi...

This new edition of Abortion: The Supreme Court Decisions includes all of the major Supreme Court decisions on abortion since the 1960sas well as m...

A wide-ranging intellectual history of the Critical Legal Studies Movement, drawing from personal accounts, academic works, and the media. The Rise...

The principle of non-intervention is one of the most venerable principles of international law. Although not expressly mentioned in the Charter of ...

A collection that focuses on the role of European law in colonial contexts and engages with recent treatments of this theme in known works written ...

Love, Hate, and the Law in Tudor England reconstructs the life of Ralph Rishton, a member of the sixteenth-century Lancashire gentry who was a chil...

Jimmy Hoffa, acquitted in a Nashville court during the Test Fleet case, was under investigation for jury tampering and subsequently tried and convi...

An account of a fundamental change in American legal thought, from a conception of law as something found in nature to one in which law is entirely...

The rural county of Poyang, lying in northern Jiangxi Province, goes largely unmentioned in the annals of modern Chinese history. Yet records from ...

John C. Domino examines the origins and development of the right to privacy in Texas, beginning at a time when the states courts had not yet recogn...

The Vikings are well-known for their violent raids and pillage, but they also had a well-organised system for political decision-making, legal case...