Legal History

Examining new archival material from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, One Law for All? discusses legal transfer and practice in impe...

As the notoriously reluctant author of the Bill of Rights, James Madison has had a profound influence on the American government and legal system. ...

There are few historical developments more significant than the realisation that those in power should not be free to torture and abuse those who a...

In this authoritative, accessible study, historian Suzanne Schneider examines the politics and ideology of the Islamic State (better known as ISIS)...

In The Case of Literature, Arne Höcker offers a radical reassessment of the modern European literary canon. His reinterpretations of Goethe, Schill...

The colonies that comprised pre-revolutionary America had thirteen legal systems and governments. Given their diversity, how did they evolve into a...

This uncanny volume is the memoir of Julius Kaplan, an extraordinary American lawyer with a unique ability intuitively to understand and respond po...

The question was: would he hang? In 1963, when South Africa's apartheid government charged Nelson Mandela with planning its overthrow, most obser...

Barrington Black was for many years one of the UK's best-known criminal defence lawyers and founder of a solicitor's firm in Leeds now commemorated...

This second collection of papers by Peter Edbury focuses primarily on the literature either composed in the Latin East or closely associated with i...

Since at least the time of Tocqueville, observers have noted that Americans draw on the language of rights when expressing dissatisfaction with pol...

Seeking to shed light on the nature and status of Maori customary law-a fundamental component of the New Zealand legal system-Te Matapunenga assemb...

This book argues that sovereignty is the first-order question of political order, and that seventeenth-century England provides an important case s...

The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature ...

The Supreme Court's 1919 decision in Schenck vs. the United States is one of the most important free speech cases in American history. Written by O...

The Law of Nations and the United States Constitution offers a new lens through which anyone interested in constitutional governance in the United ...

With the enactment in 1891 of the Evarts Act, a court of appeals was created in each of the nation's nine circuits. What is now called the U.S. Cou...

Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico shows how Indian litigants and petitioners made sense of Spanish legal principles and processes...

From the huge miscarriage of justice against Oscar Slater to the Lockerbie trial; from the decomposing snail in bottle of ginger beer to allegation...

Eight hundred years ago King John of England was forced to seal a document of historic importance. As the first charter to grant individual liberti...

In 1801, a 45-year-old Revolutionary War veteran and politician, slovenly, genial, brilliant, and persuasive, became the fourth chief justice of th...

Diplomat, lawyer, judge, soldier, spy, spymaster - just some of the positions American Norwood Allman, held in his 30 plus years in China. Shanghai...

Via rigorous study of the legal arguments Spain developed to justify its acts of war and conquest, The Other Side of Empire illuminates Spain's exp...

A constitutional originalist sounds the alarm over the presidencys ever-expanding powers, ascribing them unexpectedly to the liberal embrace of a l...

How things are divided up or pieced together matters. Half a bridge is of no use at all. Conversely, many things would do more good if they could b...

Can the government seize your house to build a shopping mall? Can it determine what control you have over your own body? The answers to those quest...

Winner of the Jerry H. Bentley Book Prize, World History AssociationThe success of the English colony of Barbados in the seventeenth century, with ...

The Mongol conquest of China in the thirteenth century and Khubilai Khans founding of the Yuan dynasty brought together under one government people...

Malcolm Feeley, one of the founding giants of the law and society field, is also one of its most exciting, diverse, and contemporary scholars. His ...

London abounds with all manner of ludicrous laws, and not all of these curious statutes have been relegated to the past. Despite the efforts of the...

In this innovative legal history of economic life in the Western Indian Ocean, Bishara examines the transformations of Islamic law and Islamicate c...

Introduction to Law and Legal Skills introduces LLB students to legal history and basic frameworks and concepts in a graduated, applied and engagin...