Legal History

The Idea of a Moral Economy is the first modern edition and English translation of three questions disputed at the University of Paris in 1330 by t...

This book brings together experts in Norwegian and Scottish legal, economic and political history to explore significant points of contact and simi...

The first monograph study of legal reform and literature in early modern EnglandThis book investigates rhetorical and representational practices th...

Thomas Green examines the Scottish Reformation from a new perspective the legal system and lawyers. For the leading lawyers of the day, the Scotti...

Combining her expertise in legal theory and judicial practice in a continental European civil-law system, Jeanne Gaakeer explores the intertwinemen...

This book expands on established doctrine in legal history and sets out a challenge for legal philosophers. The English medieval village community ...

This volume brings together an international team of scholars to debate Cicero's role in the narrative of Roman law in the late Republic a role th...

This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of the study of the rule of law across law, the humanities, and social sciences, as well as insigh...

Analyses how bankruptcy was litigated within the court to gain a more nuanced understanding of early modern bankruptcy. This book examines cases i...

For most of its existence, the US Supreme Court has sustained slavery, racial discrimination, segregation, racial inequality, and white preference ...

The boundaries between the history of law and the history of everything else are quite blurry nowadays. Whether one is asking questions about the o...

A Forgotten Migration tells the little-known story of segregation scholarships awarded by states in the US South to Black students seeking graduate...

This title was first published in 2002: Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650-1950 provides a critical synthesis of the growing bod...

The main task of this book is to deliver an in-depth analysis of the idea of the state in the reflection of Robert von Mohl (17991875). This German...

This compilation represents the first study to examine the historical evolution and shifting global dynamics of policing across the Lusophone commu...

Nicholas of Cusa is known as one of the most original philosophers of the 15th century, but by training he was a canon lawyer who received his degr...

A fundamental re-assessment of Cicero's place in Roman law This volume brings together an international team of scholars to debate Cicero's role in...

In the mid-Victorian period, when British international influence and power were at their height, concerns about local economic and social conditio...

This book surveys secondary literature on the biggest questions that have animated the field of Islamic law since its beginnings. It offers scholar...

From the ancient beginnings of Western legal tradition, law has been conceived as traversed by a fundamental tension between power (will) and reaso...

Taking the form of two companion volumes, Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland represents the first major investigation into the administra...

Exploring the boundaries of the law as they existed in medieval and early modern times and as they have been perceived by historians, this volume o...

This book was first published in 2003.Justice, Humanity and the New World Order offers a refreshing analysis of current jurisprudential concerns re...

This title was first published in 2001. In the tight frame of its first twenty years, Massachusetts Bay dramatically altered its constitutional ord...

First published in 1998, this text is the prefatory first part of Austins Lectures on Jurisprudence or the Philosophy of Positive Laws and first ap...

Addressing the relationship between law and the visual, this book examines the importance of photography in Central, East, and Southeast European s...

This book analyzes how over the last two decades, immigration regimes in three primary refugee-receiving states in the Global North Canada, Austra...

This book examines the extent to which Brexit has impacted upon the operation of the British Constitution, prompting in turn consideration of how s...

This book examines the evolution of the contemporary crime victims procedural place within modern Western societies. Taking the history of the Iris...

This book considers whether Parliament recognises a constitutional right to property. Parliament is supreme: in theory, there is nothing to stop i...

Dismembers and remembers the sensual and spiritual body of Lady Justice in a wholly novel interpretation of the optical allegory of Iustitia Prese...