Legal History

Current histories seem to suggest that men alone have been capable of the development of ideas, analysis, and practice of international law until t...

At a time of intense polarisation about the value of human rights, this edited volume brings together leading scholars in international law and int...

In this volume of essays a group of scholars from Europe, Japan, the Republic of China, and the United States examines China's legal tradition to d...

What can early Jewish courtroom narratives tell us about the capacity and limits of human justice? By exploring how judges and the act of judging a...

A compendium of creative strategies for building the world we want, this book . . . models the myriad ways that people can make a difference in the...

Many legal theorists maintain that laws are effective because we internalize them, obeying even when not compelled to do so. In a comprehensive rea...

Anyone who wants to understand how abortion has been treated historically in the western legal tradition must first come to terms with two quite di...

Shifts across the corpus of international law have brought the international legal system into a closer alignment with the interests of the individ...

Laws of the Constitution: Consolidated gathers all of the historical and contemporary constitutional documents pertaining to Canada, its provinces,...

In Cattle Lords and Clansmen, Nerys Patterson provides an analysis of the social structure of medieval Ireland, focusing on the pre-Norman period. ...

Bringing together specialists in ancient history, archaeology and Roman law, this book provides new perspectives on long-distance trade in the Roma...

In Bezug auf das Problem des rechtswidrigen Rechts herrschte eine Kontroverse zwischen zwei Schülern Hans Kelsens (1881-1973): Adolf Julius Merkl (...

Long before the Supreme Court ruled that impoverished defendants in criminal cases have a right to free counsel, Philadelphias public defenders wer...

Honorable Mention, 2017 Scribes Book Award, The American Society of Legal Writers At the dawn of the twentieth century, the United States was reeli...

The commonly held view about English administrative law is that it is of recent origin, with some dating it from the mid-20th century and some vent...

The nineteenth century has been understood as an age in which states could wage war against each other if they deemed it politically necessary. Acc...

Fred Korematsus decision to resist F.D.R.s Executive Order 9066, which provided authority for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War...