Legal History

The United States Constitution was established primarily because of the widely recognized failures of its predecessor, the Articles of Confederatio...

This is the first institutional history of Scotland's 18th-century civil court and its legal community. 18th-century Edinburgh owed much to the men...

Rot and Revival is one of the first scholarly works to comprehensively theorize and document how politics make American constitutional law and how ...

Rot and Revival is one of the first scholarly works to comprehensively theorize and document how politics make American constitutional law and how ...

The first comprehensive history of the DREAM Act and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) In 1982, the Supreme Court of the United States ...

For more than fifty years, Robert G. McCloskeys classic work on the Supreme Courts role in constructing the US Constitution has introduced generati...

Arbitration and Mediation In Nineteenth-Century England rounds off Derek Roebucks series on the history of English arbitration, and is written by h...

John Milton is widely known as the poet of liberty and freedom. But his commitment to justice has been often overlooked. As Alison A. Chapman shows...

The Bourgeois Charm of Karl Marx & the Ideological Irony of American Jurisprudence employs a well-known body of work, Marx's, to explain the in...

'The king can do no wrong' remains one of the most fundamental yet misunderstood tenets of the common law tradition. Confusion over the phrase's hi...

The Civil Rights Act of 1875, enacted March 1, 1875, banned racial discrimination in public accommodationshotels, public conveyances, and places of...

Legal Education in the Western World provides an encompassing history of legal education from Ancient Rome to present day Europe and the Americas. ...

Legal Education in the Western World provides an encompassing history of legal education from Ancient Rome to present day Europe and the Americas. ...

More than thirty years ago, section 35 of the Constitution Act recognized and affirmed the existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal ...

The widespread use of digital media today and its possibilities for distribution and reproduction are moving intellectual property rights into the ...

A revealing yet accessible examination of the Nuremberg trial, and most crucially all 23 men who stood accused, not just the most infamousSpeer, He...

An authoritative reassessment of one of the Third Reichs most notorious war criminals, whose alleged sexual barbarism made her a convenient scapego...