Legal History

Winner, 2020 ACJS Outstanding Book Award, given by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences A major statement on the juvenile justice system by on...

This wide-ranging volume advances our understanding of law and empire in the early modern world. Distinguished contributors expose new dimensions o...

A new approach to the telling of legal history, devoid of jargon and replete with good stories, which will be of interest to anyone wishing to know...

Winner of the John Phillip Reed Book Award, American Society for Legal HistoryA legal historian opens a window on the monumental postwar effort to ...

The activist state of the New Deal started forming decades before the FDR administration, demonstrating the deep roots of energetic government in A...

A historical and legal examination of the conflict and interplay between settler and indigenous laws in the New World As British and Iberian empire...

An urgent plea for much needed reforms to legal education The period from 2008 to 2018 was a lost decade for American law schools. Employment resu...

A revealing look at the history and legacy of the "War on Drugs" Fifty years after President Richard Nixon declared a "War on Drugs," the United St...

In this essential philosophical and practical reckoning, Martha C. Nussbaum, renowned for her eloquence and clarity of moral vision, shows how sexu...

“Wilentz brings a lifetime of learning and a mastery of political history to this brilliant book.”—David W. Blight, author of Frederick DouglassA N...

Law is a specific form of social regulation distinct from religion, ethics, and even politics, and endowed with a strong and autonomous rationality...

A provocative analysis of how Christianity helped legitimize the death penalty in early modern Europe, then throughout the Christian world, by turn...

An examination of how two fundamental concepts of order influence our ideas about sovereignty, citizenship, law, and history Western accounts of na...

Winner of the Mark Lynton Prize in History—the story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history"A rich, roiling...

Explores the relationship between the production of enslaved property and the production of the past in the antebellum United States.It is extraord...

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

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 Life and Death of Freedom of Expression, Richard Moon argues that freedom of expression is valuable because human agency and identity emerge...

In The Life and Death of Freedom of Expression, Richard Moon argues that freedom of expression is valuable because human agency and identity emerge...

Co-Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial PrizeA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Wall Street ...

In Soldier’s Paradise, Samuel Fury Childs Daly tells the story of how Africa’s military dictators tried and failed to transform their societies int...

The leading U.S. expert on abortion law charts the many meanings associated with Roe v. Wade during its fifty-year history   “Ziegler sets a brisk ...