Legal History

Since its founding, the United States has defined itself as the supreme protector of freedom throughout the world, pointing to its Constitution as ...

One of the academys leading legal historians, William E. Nelson is the Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. For m...

This is a highly original, interdisciplinary study of the archaic Greek word nomos and its family of words. More recently used to mean simply 'law'...

This book examines legal language as a language for special purposes, evaluating the functions and characteristics of legal language and the termin...

Who controls how ones identity is used by others? This legal question, centuries old, demands greater scrutiny in the Internet age. Jennifer Rothma...

This volume presents the first full English translation of four key texts from the dispute between Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda and Bartolomé de las Cas...

Contract Before the Enlightenment represents a fresh investigation of what was then a ground-breaking approach to the law of contract written by Ja...

A revealing look at the history and legacy of the War on Drugs Fifty years after President Richard Nixon declared a War on Drugs, the United States...

This volume contains the contributions delivered at CEFL's sixth international conference, which focused on comparative and international family la...

There is no nation in which the teachers of law play a more prominent role than in the United States. In this unique volume Stephen Presser, a law ...

Copyright law is commonly described as carrying out a balancing act between the interests of authors or owners and those of the public. While much...

By the second century AD the Roman empire had grown into a vast multilingual and pluriform empire. Unlike in the Roman West, where the lingua franc...

In a richly narrated historical study, Youcef Soufi excavates an Islamic legal culture of critique from the 10th to 13th centuries. Focusing on the...

On 27 January 1186 the German king Henry VI, son and heir of the Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, married Constance of Hauteville, heir to the...

The fourth edition of this acclaimed textbook addresses the developments in English contract law since the last edition, including the impact of th...

This book is a study of polyandry, wife-selling, and a variety of related practices in China during the Qing dynasty (1644-1912). By analyzing over...

The Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as ...

Guido Calabresi is an extraordinary person. His family, of Jewish heritage, occupied a secure and centuries-old position near the top of Italian so...

The Locarno Conference of 1925 and the five treaties concluded there have been seen as the turning point of the interwar years, i.e., Germany's acc...

What constitutes a sovereign state in the international legal sphere? This question has been central to international law for centuries. Sovereignt...