Legal History

A stunning revision of our founding documents evolving history that forces us to confront anew the question that animated the founders so long ago:...

Born into slavery in rural Louisiana, Rose Herera was bought and sold several times before being purchased by the De Hart family of New Orleans. St...

The first account of the August Trials, in which postwar Poland confronted the betrayal of Jewish citizens under Nazi rule but ended up fashioning ...

An Open Letters Monthly Best Nonfiction Book of the YearAmericas criminal justice system is broken. The United States punishes at a higher per capi...

The rule of law has vanished in Americas criminal justice system. Prosecutors now decide whom to punish and how severely. Almost no one accused of ...

The rule of law has vanished in Americas criminal justice system. Prosecutors now decide whom to punish and how severely. Almost no one accused of ...

A Financial Times Best History Book of the YearA surprising account of frontier law that challenges the image of the Wild West. In the absence of s...

A Federalist Notable BookAn important contribution to our understanding of the 14th Amendment.Wall Street JournalBy any standard an important contr...

Oxford's variorum edition of William Blackstone's seminal treatise on the common law of England and Wales offers the definitive account of the Comm...

We Make Each Other Beautiful focuses on woman of color and queer of color artists and artist collectives who engage in direct political action as a...

We Make Each Other Beautiful focuses on woman of color and queer of color artists and artist collectives who engage in direct political action as a...

In Negotiation and Resistance, Constance Brittain Bouchard challenges familiar depictions of the peasantry as an undifferentiated mass of impoveris...

A master storyteller presents a riveting drama of America's first crime of the century--from murder investigation to a church sex scandal to celebr...

In this abridged edition for the Landmark Law Cases and American Society series, American by Birth is now available in a format designed for studen...

A scholar of law and religion uncovers a surprising origin story behind the idea of the separation of powers.The separation of powers is a bedrock ...

The rule of law, an ideology of equality and universality that justified Britain's eighteenth-century imperial claims, was the product not of abstr...

Roman contract law has profoundly influenced subsequent legal systems throughout the world, but is inarguably an important subject in its own right...

First published in 1903: This present edition of the Education Acts is offered, mainly as a concise guide to those persons who administer these Acts.

The Bureaucracy of Empathy revolves around two central questions: What is pain? And how do we recognize, understand, and ameliorate the pain of non...

The Bureaucracy of Empathy revolves around two central questions: What is pain? And how do we recognize, understand, and ameliorate the pain of non...