Legal History

This title was first published in 2002: Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650-1950 provides a critical synthesis of the growing bod...

Volume 2 of this two-volume companion study into the administration, experience, impact and representation of summary justice in Scotland explores ...

Globalising British Policing demonstrates how the policing system in place in Britain today has emerged from an historical overlap of two broad pol...

Featuring contributions from scholars from across the globe, Routledge Handbook of Public Criminologies is a comprehensive resource that addresses ...

The abolition of judicial torturealongside the eradication of both slavery and capital punishmentwas one of the most consequential issues debated i...

In the antebellum Natchez district, in the heart of slave country, black people sued white people in all-white courtrooms. They sued to enforce the...

Although it has a rich historiography, and from the late ninth century is rich in textual evidence, northern Iberia has barely featured in the grea...

Often photographed in a cowboy hat with her middle finger held defiantly in the air, Florynce Flo Kennedy (1916 - 2000) left a vibrant legacy as a ...

Written in a lively and engaging style from the perspective of a leading immigration judge, this book examines how states resolve disputes with mig...

The Idea of a Moral Economy is the first modern edition and English translation of three questions disputed at the University of Paris in 1330 by t...

This book brings together experts in Norwegian and Scottish legal, economic and political history to explore significant points of contact and simi...

The first monograph study of legal reform and literature in early modern EnglandThis book investigates rhetorical and representational practices th...

Thomas Green examines the Scottish Reformation from a new perspective the legal system and lawyers. For the leading lawyers of the day, the Scotti...

Combining her expertise in legal theory and judicial practice in a continental European civil-law system, Jeanne Gaakeer explores the intertwinemen...

This book expands on established doctrine in legal history and sets out a challenge for legal philosophers. The English medieval village community ...