Legal History

How did the division of power work in Ancient Greece? This groundbreaking study reveals Ancient Greek political decision-making to be a multi-layer...

THE TRUTH WILL ENDURE. IT MUST.But our history is in danger of being rewritten by the progressive left and the woke mob.In PROFILES IN FREEDOM: HER...

Der Literaturwissenschaftler Walter Müller-Seidel zählt zu den einflussreichsten Vertretern seines Faches. Weit über dessen Grenzen hinaus setzte e...

Paris, 1599. At the end of the French Wars of Religion, the widow Renée Chevalier instigated the prosecution of the military captain Mathurin Delac...

Auf der Suche nach einem materiellen Schuldbegriff folgt der Autor unterschiedlichen Begründungsansätzen von Schuld. Ausgehend vom Menschen als mit...

For more than century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading ...

For more than century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading ...

Tirades against legal theatrics are nearly as old as law itself, and yet so is the age-old claim that law must not merely be done: it must be seen ...

The story behind the historic Mineral King Valley case, which reveals how the Sierra Club battled Disneys ski resort development and launched a new...

Throughout Oceania, land is central to identity because it is understood to be spiritually nourishing and sustaining. Land is the mother. Land, and...

Stephen Bright emerged on the scene as a cause lawyer in the early decades of mass incarceration, when inflammatory politics and harsh changes to c...

In Bedford, the Supreme Court struck down prohibitions against communicating in public for the purpose of sex work, living on its avails, and worki...

After the fall of military and communist dictatorships at the end of the 1980s, Latin American and Eastern European countries had to reckon with at...

After the fall of military and communist dictatorships at the end of the 1980s, Latin American and Eastern European countries had to reckon with at...

After the fall of military and communist dictatorships at the end of the 1980s, Latin American and Eastern European countries had to reckon with at...

Islamic legal theory (usūl al-fiqh) is literally regarded as the roots of the law whilst Islamic jurists consider it to be the basis of Islamic ju...

A powerful analysis of how regulation of the movement of enslaved and free black people produced a national immigration policy in the period betwee...

The book provides rule-by-rule commentaries on European contract law (general contract law, consumer contract law, the law of sale and related serv...

Americas debates over secularism are not what they seem. Far from being primarily about religion and its place in politics, these battles over ill-...

American law schools extol democracy but teach little about its most basic institution, the Congress. Interpreting statutes is lawyers most basic t...

Contemporary research on the genealogy of human rights and the foundations of international law has brought renewed interest to the study of natura...

Explores the variety of legal and regulatory regimes that existed in Western Europe to control labour and how workers experienced those controls. ...