Legal History

The Constitution of 1937 represents the culmination of a constitutional revolution. It was an innovative exercise in democracy, but with one fundam...

Since America's founding, the U.S. Supreme Court had issued a vast number of decisions on a staggeringly wide variety of subjects. And hundreds of ...

The American Supreme Court is one of the most powerful and controversial judicial bodies in the world. The Court has assumed the role of settling f...

Sir Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland's legal classic The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I expanded the work of Sir...

Officials of football''s world governing body, FIFA,are arrested in dramatic dawn raids in Switzerland and America. Sport has, once again, encounte...

2015 marks the 800th anniversary of the grant at Runnymede of Magna Carta.The story of how Magna Carta came into being ,and has been interpreted si...

John M. Collins presents the first comprehensive history of martial law in the early modern period. He argues that rather than being a state of exc...

Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey, Race, and the American Death Penalty connects the history of the American death penalty to the case of Wa...

Nineteenth-century Britain witnessed a dramatic increase in its town population, as a hitherto largely rural economy transformed itself into an urb...

A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today.Hailed as the first freedom, free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a ...

This book shows how political and administrative forces shaped the way justice was applied in medieval Egypt. It introduces the model that evolved ...

Western legal professionals habitually rely on a version of legal history that bolsters their own sway over the present. The legal mythologies unde...

For any serious scholar of Russian and Ukrainian witchcraft and magic, this volume is a 'must read.'... Scholars of folklore and popular culture al...

According to the Law Journal in 1932, No present-day figure on the Bench is of greater interest than Mr Justice McCardie. A High Court Judge from 1...

A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgmentWhen buildings are deemed ugly, what are the con...

In the immediate aftermath of the armistice that ended the First World War, the Allied nations of Britain, France, and Italy agreed to put the fall...

Federalism is regarded as one of the signal American contributions to modern politics. Its origins are typically traced to the drafting of the Cons...

Sir Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland's legal classic The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I expanded the work of Sir...

November, 1945. The war is over, Hitler is dead, and Allied Army Chaplain Henry Gerecke receives his most challenging assignment: to go to Nurember...

Since its Broadway debut, Hamilton: An American Musical has infused itself into the American experience: who shapes it, who owns it, who can rap it...

This book shows how political and administrative forces shaped the way justice was applied in medieval Egypt. It introduces the model that evolved ...

Beginning in 1950, the state of Israel prosecuted and jailed dozens of Holocaust survivors who had served as camp kapos or ghetto police under the ...

In no other country in the world is there anything to match Britains love affair with the steam train; nowhere else are there so many preserved rai...

In the small hours of 27 May 1817, Mary Ashford, a young servant girl from the village of Erdington near Birmingham, left a party in the company of...

A lively and controversial overview by the nations most celebrated First Amendment lawyer of the unique protections for freedom of speech in America

In a fascinating blend of biography and history, Joseph Tartakovsky tells the epic and unexpected story of our Constitution through the eyes of ten...

The Ouija board jury incident of 1994 is one of the most disconcerting in English legal history, possibly (says the author) ''the nadir of reported...

Ancient Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now western Iraq and eastern Syria, is considered to b...

One of a number of real life cases from an era when juries listened with rapt attention to evidence of exact times, distances, estimates of speed a...

The Tottenham Outrage of 1909 when two Latvian robbers, Jewish refugees, intercepted a payroll has been comparatively hidden from the wider world (...