Legal History

Exploring the little-known history behind the legal doctrine of prior appropriationfirst in time is first in rightused to apportion water resources...

A valuable resource for students, teachers, and citizens looking to better understand US Constitutional history With Liberty and Justice for All...

LIFE. SEX. RACE. POWER. FREE SPEECH. PROTEST. PRIVACY. DEMOCRACY. SOVEREIGNTY. DEATH. Society shapes law... and law shapes society. We like to ima...

A valuable resource for students, teachers, and citizens looking to better understand US Constitutional history With Liberty and Justice for All?:...

'A soaring account of the months that transformed a messy feudal squabble into Magna Carta...his crisp storytelling, based around short chapters an...

The first comprehensive history of law in Wales from before the Romans to Devolution.

The fourth installment of the series focuses on the nexus of law and power and follows the established interdisciplinary tradition of the Carlsberg...

This volume contains the proceedings of the conference ''''Law and Private Life in the Middle Ages'''' held on 29 April - 1 May 2009 at the Carlsbe...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online ...

Little attention was paid at the time to the death in the Tower of London of Sir Thomas Overbury, but it was not long before foul play was suspecte...

Separate is a myth-shattering narrative of one of the most consequential Supreme Court cases of the nineteenth century, Plessy v. Ferguson. The 189...

Forensic Fables appeared first in the Law Journal and then in book form between 1926 and 1932. They were published anonymously, but their authorsh...

When Helena Normanton was admitted to Middle Temple on 24 December 1919, she became the first woman to enter this traditional male preserve, settin...

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

In 1834 Harvard dropout Richard Henry Dana Jr. sailed to California as a common seaman. His account of the voyage, Two Years Before the Mast, quick...

Complementing other studies on judicial discourse, this book investigates previously unexplored areas, focusing on the realisation of Concession in...

Robert Marsden Hope (191999), a NSW Supreme Court judge, shaped the structures, operations and doctrines of Australias intelligence agencies more t...

The Centenary Classics series examines the fascinating time of change and evolution in the Ireland of 100 years ago during the 1916-23 revolutionar...

Comprises an introduction to the background of The Dialogue, written in 1594 by George Owen of Henllys, north Pembrokeshire.

This volume brings together contributions from two separate editors. The first is a collection of texts edited by Peter Clarke that evidence Cardin...

As Kings Counsel he was involved in many celebrated trials, including the prosecution of John Horne Took for high treason and of Queen ­Caroline fo...

This is the firstand the only authorizedbiography of Elbert Parr Tuttle (18971996), the judge who led the federal court with jurisdiction over most...