Legal History

Saskia Lettmaier explores what is arguably the greatest transformation to have occurred within the Western law of marriage in the last five hundred...

The Formation of English Common Law provides a comprehensive overview of the development of early English law, one of the classic subjects of medie...

What should be done about cultural property confiscated in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR? This legal appraisal commissioned by the Deutsch...

The Law of Nations and the United States Constitution offers a new lens through which anyone interested in constitutional governance in the United ...

Throws much new light on questions of gentry honour, the nature and prevalence of early modern elite violence, and the process of judicial investig...

In this book the authors present and, more importantly, give their own assessment of judicial decisions interpreting the Criminal Code provisions c...

Winner of the Ramnath Goenka Award 2020 On 26th January 1950 India became a republic, shedding its last links with its colonial past and inaugurat...

For most Americans, the Revolutions main achievement is summed up by the phrase life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Yet far from a straigh...

Along with treaties, custom is one of the sources of international law. It is known to consist of two elements: state practice and opinio juris. Wh...

Federal Ground depicts the haphazard and unplanned growth of federal authority in the Northwest and Southwest Territories, the first U.S. territori...

A New Statesman Book of the YearA critical analysis of the transformation of constitutionalism from an increasingly irrelevant theory of limited go...

A poignant, multi-generational saga of a mixed-race family in the US West and South from the antebellum period through the rise of Jim Crow. When ...