Legal History

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

In the early 1930s women practicing criminal law were often held in the same low regard as the clients they served. When a corrupt prosecutor wa...

A history of Saskatchewan's highest court as it reaches its centennial in 2018, The Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan places the court within the ad...

The increasing prominence of urban life during the Middle Ages is undoubtedly one of the more transcendental and multi-faceted aspects of this era,...

Forfeiture has long been an effective law enforcement tool. Congress and state legislatures have authorised its use for over 200 years. Every year,...

On the feast of St. Michael, September 1659, a thirteen-year-old peasant girl left her family's rural home to work as a maid in the nearby city of ...

Even as unemployment rates soared during the Great Depression, FDR's relief and social security programs faced attacks in Congress and the courts o...

Few topics have had a more profound impact on the study of Roman law in Britain than the lex Aquilia, a Roman statute enacted c.287/286 BCE to refo...

It is because Catholicism played such a formative role in the construction of Western legal culture that it is the focal point of this enquiry. The...

Based on a completely reconstructed archive of Persian, Hindi and Marathi documents, Nandini Chatterjee provides a unique micro-history of a family...

In early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states, purporting to e...

The three most important Supreme Court Justices before the Civil WarChief Justices John Marshall and Roger B. Taney and Associate Justice Joseph St...

Fully revised and updated, this classic text provides the authoritative introduction to the history of the English common law. The book traces the ...

The most unique and important of all early American law reports are those of Josiah Quincy Jr. (1744-1775). These are the first reports of continen...

This is an interdisciplinary, edited collection on social science methodologies for approaching Roman legal sources. Roman law as a field of study ...

In 1975, Dr. Richard Charles Haefner had it all--a Ph.D. from Penn State University, a prestigious job offer with UCLA and a thriving family bus...

After Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt, claiming a never documented military necessity, ordered the removal and incarceration of 120,000 Japanese ...