Legal History

In Texas v. White (1869), the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the unilateral secession of a state from the Union was unconstitutional...

The controversial 1991 War Crimes Act gave new powers to courts to try non-British citizens resident in the UK for war crimes committed during WWII...

Prior to the twentieth century, international law was predominantly written by and for the 'civilised nations' of the white Global North. It justif...

This book examines the powerful influence of civil law on understandings and responses to madness in England and in New Jersey. The influence of ci...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring For 30 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse chronicled the activities o...

Major innovations have occurred in the study of biblical law in recent decades. The legal material of the Pentateuch has received new interest with...

Treaties were the primary instruments by which Native American tribal homelands passed into non-Indian hands. Indian people were coerced, manipulat...

This book discusses the revolutionary broadening of concepts of freedom of press and freedom of speech in Great Britain and in America in the late ...

Antonin Scalia and American Constitutionalism is an in-depth study of Justice Antonin Scalia's jurisprudence, his work on the Supreme Court, and hi...

The Law of the Constitution has been the main doctrinal influence upon English constitutional thought since the late-nineteenth century. It acquire...

This book provides a complement to Dicey's The Law of the Constitution. These largely unpublished comparative constitutional lectures were written ...

Private International Law is often criticized for failing to curb private power in the transnational realm. The field appears disinterested or powe...

In one of the most thorough accounts of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, Nathan S. Chapman and Michael W. McConnell provide an insi...

Margaret Leary''s carefully researched book illuminates a complex man who marked his university in a truly enduring way. ---Francis X. Blouin Jr....

This is the second and final volume of the annotated translation of a seminal Chinese legal text. The T'ang Code, written in 653 A.D., is the most ...