Legal History

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 These largely unpublished comparative constitutional lectures were written ...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 ...

This collection of fourteen essays written by young communication scholars at the University of Arkansas presents unique insights into how First Am...

As featured on CBS Saturday Morning. Finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize. In Judgment and Mercy, Martin J. Siegel...

Great cases are those judicial decisions around which the common law develops. This book explores eight exemplary cases from the United Kingdom, th...

Comparative studies can reveal much about how law is formed out of social reality and political power by exploring these interactions in different ...

Historians of the English legal profession have written comparatively little about the lawyers who served in the courts of the Church. This volume ...

The history of international adjudication is all too often presented as a triumphalist narrative of normative and institutional progress that casts...

The Russian Empire and its legal institutions have often been associated with arbitrariness, corruption, and the lack of a 'rule of law'. Stefan B....

While almost everyone has heard of human rights, few will have reflected in depth on what human rights are, where they originate from and what they...

The United Nations estimates that four billion people worldwide live outside the protection of the law. These people can be driven from their land,...

Written in memory of Christopher W. Brooks, this collection of essays by prominent historians examines and builds on the scholarly legacy of the le...

All of us are entitled to the protections of law against violence, to a high quality education, to decent employment that respects our dignity, and...

All of us are entitled to the protections of law against violence, to a high quality education, to decent employment that respects our dignity, and...

This is a study of a progressive law firm and its three partners. The firm was founded in 1936 and existed until the death of one partner in 1965. ...

An analysis of how problematic laws ought to be framed and considered From the murder of George Floyd to the systematic dismantling of voting right...