Legal History

This magisterial study, ten years in the making by one of the field's most distinguished historians, will be the first to explore the impact fugiti...

Law and the Formation of Modern Europe explores processes of legal construction in both the national and supranational domains, and it provides an ...

This book re-examines fundamental assumptions about the American legal profession and the boundaries between 'professional' lawyers, 'lay' lawyers,...

Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America - a history of colonizing, work and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on ...

This volume seeks to explain how American society, which had been capable of noble aspirations such as those in the Declaration of Independence and...

Modern-day tax treaties have their foundations in one of the three Model Tax Treaties developed by the League of Nations in 1928. Using previously ...

This is the engaging and accessible intellectual memoir of a leading jurist. It tells the story of the development of his thoughts and writings ove...

Religious freedom is one of the most debated and controversial human rights in contemporary public discourse. At once a universally held human righ...

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

The First Amendment to the US Constitution protects free speech, freedom of the press, freedom of association and assembly, and the right to petiti...

Governing Islam traces the colonial roots of contemporary struggles between Islam and secularism in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The book uncov...

A historian traces the origins of the modern law-and-order state to a surprising source: the liberal policies of the New Deal.Most Americans rememb...

Why are certain responses to past human rights violations considered instances of transitional justice while others are disregarded? This study int...

Demands for redress of historical injustice are a crucial component of contemporary struggles for social and transnational justice. However, unders...

This book challenges the recently established consensus that the trial was a carefully prepared and executed judicial process in which the judges w...

Lawmen were crucial to the economic wellbeing of medieval nunneries; this book looks at the relationship between them and how cases were conducted....

A study of the implications and practices of wills and will-making in Anglo-Saxon society, and of the varieties of inheritance strategies and comme...

Ephrem, one of the earliest Syriac Christian writers, lived on the eastern outskirts of the Roman Empire during the fourth century. Although he wro...

With its roots in ancient Greece, Roman law and Christianity, European legal history is the history of a common civilisation. The exchange of legis...

A study of how English legal culture, with its strong emphasis on common law, engaged with the new ideas of the Enlightenment. This book explores ...