Legal History

The number one Irish Times bestseller In 1970, Taoiseach Jack Lynch accused two cabinet ministers, Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney, of smuggling ar...

For decades, the public company has played a dominant role in the American economy. Since the middle of the 20th century, the nature of the public ...

A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence is the first-ever multivolume treatment of the issues in legal philosophy and general juri...

Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with separate but equal, created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their nea...

Using original and archival material, The Right to Privacy traces the origins and influence of the right to privacy as a social, cultural and legal...

Books about the work of James Joyce are an academic industry. Most of them are unreadable and esoteric. Adrian Hardiman's book is both highly reada...

Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor challenges existing understandings of child labor by tracing how law altered the meanings ...

In the wrong hands, math can be deadly. Even the simplest numbers can become powerful forces when manipulated by politicians or the media, but in t...

Juries have been at the center of some of the most emotionally charged moments of political life. At the same time, their capacity for legitimate d...

Ever since the rise of Adolf Hitler, mental health professionals have sought to use their knowledge of human psychology to understand - and interve...

The Forgotten Shipwreck is the tragic true story of a Cornish pleasure boat which sank without trace or sensation, relegated in news columns by Eng...

From war powers to health care, freedom of speech to gun ownership, religious liberty to abortion, practically every aspect of American life is sha...

The doctrine of modern law of the sea is commonly believed to have developed from Renaissance Europe. Often ignored though is the role of Islamic l...

'As British official records are still going missing, the significance of Cobain's work only increases' David Olusoga, author of Black and British ...

This book is an interdisciplinary guide to the religion clauses of the First Amendment with a focus on its philosophical foundations, historical de...

From 1953 to 1969, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren brought about many of the proudest achievements of American constitutional law...

As the author notes, `The early-modern European witch-hunts were neither orchestrated massacres nor spontaneous pogroms. Alleged witches were not r...

Over the last forty years, Sir John Baker has written on most aspects of English legal history, and this collection of his writings includes many p...

The Magna Carta is one of the most celebrated documents in English history and one of the British Library's greatest treasures. But despite this, t...

Steven K. Green, renowned for his scholarship on the separation of church and state, charts the career of the concept and helps us understand how i...

Asked if the country was governed by a republic or a monarchy, Benjamin Franklin replied, A republic, if you can keep it. Since its founding, Ameri...

If a paternity test were done on widely admired South Africas constitution, whose DNA would come up? Is the Constitution just a beautiful piece of ...

The case of Lizzie Bordon is one of the most infamous in criminal history having spawned songs, plays and media speculation. It also ranks as one o...

Is the world facing a serious threat to the protection of constitutional democracy? There is a genuine debate about the meaning of the various po...

In writings about Islam, women and modernity in the Middle East, family and religion are frequently invoked but rarely historicized. Based on a wid...

This humorous collection of stories from life at the Bar and on the Bench in the Cape takes a look back at four decades, starting at the end of Wor...