Legal History

Arbitrating Empire offers a new history of the emergence of the United States as a global powerone shaped as much by attempts to insulate the US ju...

Originally published in 1939, The Diary of Dudley Ryder 17151716, comprises an early diary and a few related notes by Sir Dudley Ryder when he was ...

Understanding the rules of procedure and the practices of medieval and early modern courts is of great importance for historians of every stripe. T...

The Hibernensis is the longest and most comprehensive canon-law text to have circulated in Carolingian Europe. Compiled in Ireland in the late seve...

The Hibernensis is the longest and most comprehensive canon-law text to have circulated in Carolingian Europe. Compiled in Ireland in the late seve...

The law of libel is the instrument of censorship by which dignitytoo often pseudo-dignityis to be upheld. That is Michael Rubinsteins definition in...

Ecological and political instability have time and again emerged as catalysts for risky development projects along India's south-west coastline. De...

This book provides a new interpretation of ordoliberalism the influential German version of neoliberalism by exploring the political, legal, and ...

This book reassesses AV Diceys legacy in political and legal thought through the reflections of leading scholars who consider his importance not on...

Since the Second World War, international laws governing the conduct of war and the behaviour of soldiers on the field of battle have been of stron...

The story of Wallachian mobility and settlement is remarkably central to the human condition. At its core, it reflects a fundamental drive to enhan...

Since its Broadway debut, Hamilton: An American Musical has infused itself into the American experience: who shapes it, who owns it, who can rap it...

A unique introduction to the constitutional arguments for and against the right to abortion In January 1973, the Supreme Courts opinion in Roe v. W...

In 1847, in a small rural courthouse in Coles County, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln represented a Kentucky slave owner named Robert Matson in his attem...

This book introduces non-specialist readers to the history of how human societies have sought to control, use and exploit our oceans, seas and shor...

This book seeks to trace the notarial history of China from 1902 to 1979. While working on this trailblazing effort, the author taps into a rich va...

Almost 200,000 African Americans fought to save the Union, many believing that military service was the pathway to freedom. Yet, even after enlisti...

Legal legend Judge Louis F. Oberdorfer once stated that there were only two people in the world who really understood the Constitution and its impa...

Legal legend Judge Louis F. Oberdorfer once stated that there were only two people in the world who really understood the Constitution and its impa...

The Spanish Inquisition has become such a byword for injustice that many forget it was also a judicial system capable of acquittal. This study of m...

The Spanish Inquisition has become such a byword for injustice that many forget it was also a judicial system capable of acquittal. This study of m...

A novel account of the relationship between sincerity, religious freedom, and the secular in the United States.   Sincerely held religious belief i...

Sources of English Legal History: Public Law to 1750 is the definitive source book on the foundations of English public law. A companion to Baker a...

Opened up by the revival of Classical thought but driven by the violence of the Reformation and Counter Reformation, the terrain of Early Modern la...

For 30 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse chronicled the activities of the U.S. Supreme Court and its justices as a correspo...

A century after the publication of Evgeny Pashukanis pivotal book General Theory of Law and Marxism, this collection presents a comprehensive accou...

The Politics of Co-Opposition reveals how a completely new form of political engagement in the British Isles - the 2021-24 Co-operation Agreement b...

The Age of Reform the hundred years from 1820 to 1920 - has become synonymous with innovation and change but this period was also in many ways a d...

How should we talk about the law in a period so remote from our own and covering such a huge span of time and space? From the Code of Hammurabi (ca...

In 500, the legal order in Europe was structured around ancient customs, social practices and feudal values. By 1500, the effects of demographic ch...

The period of the Enlightenment was marked by innovation in political, cultural, religious, and educational ideas with the aim of improving the exp...

The period since the First World War has been a century distinguished by the loss of any unitary foundation for truth, ethics, and the legitimate a...

The essays selected for this volume, written by some of the worlds most respected experts on human rights, encompass the development of human right...

The Age of Reform the hundred years from 1820 to 1920 - has become synonymous with innovation and change but this period was also in many ways a d...

In 500, the legal order in Europe was structured around ancient customs, social practices and feudal values. By 1500, the effects of demographic c...

The period since the First World War has been a century distinguished by the loss of any unitary foundation for truth, ethics, and the legitimate a...