Legal History

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 ...

This volume brings together an international team of scholars to debate Cicero's role in the narrative of Roman law in the late Republic a role th...

This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of the study of the rule of law across law, the humanities, and social sciences, as well as insigh...

Analyses how bankruptcy was litigated within the court to gain a more nuanced understanding of early modern bankruptcy. This book examines cases i...

For most of its existence, the US Supreme Court has sustained slavery, racial discrimination, segregation, racial inequality, and white preference ...

The boundaries between the history of law and the history of everything else are quite blurry nowadays. Whether one is asking questions about the o...

A Forgotten Migration tells the little-known story of segregation scholarships awarded by states in the US South to Black students seeking graduate...

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

The main task of this book is to deliver an in-depth analysis of the idea of the state in the reflection of Robert von Mohl (17991875). This German...

This compilation represents the first study to examine the historical evolution and shifting global dynamics of policing across the Lusophone commu...

Nicholas of Cusa is known as one of the most original philosophers of the 15th century, but by training he was a canon lawyer who received his degr...

A fundamental re-assessment of Cicero's place in Roman law This volume brings together an international team of scholars to debate Cicero's role in...

In the mid-Victorian period, when British international influence and power were at their height, concerns about local economic and social conditio...

This book surveys secondary literature on the biggest questions that have animated the field of Islamic law since its beginnings. It offers scholar...

From the ancient beginnings of Western legal tradition, law has been conceived as traversed by a fundamental tension between power (will) and reaso...

Taking the form of two companion volumes, Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland represents the first major investigation into the administra...

Exploring the boundaries of the law as they existed in medieval and early modern times and as they have been perceived by historians, this volume o...

This book was first published in 2003.Justice, Humanity and the New World Order offers a refreshing analysis of current jurisprudential concerns re...