Legal History

Moral rights are held by authors and artists under copyright laws around the world and serve to recognize their role and rights as creators. In t...

The laws of Mediaeval Iceland provide detailed and fascinating insight into the society that produced the Icelandic sagas. Known collectively as Gr...

In dem vorliegenden 18. Band ist das aus insgesamt mehr als 500 Dokumenten bestehende Verfassungsrecht des lediglich in dem Zeitraum zwischen 1806 ...

The Hebrew Bible formulates two sets of law: one for the Israelites and one for the gentile residents living in the Holy Land. Law Beyond Israel: F...

Heaven Has Eyes is a comprehensive but concise history of Chinese law and justice from the imperial era to the post-Mao era. Never before has a sin...

The history of war is also a history of its justification. The contributions to this book argue that the justification of war rarely happens as emp...

After being almost untouched for over 200 years, the contract law section of the French Civil Code was overhauled in 2016 and 2018. The New French ...

The 2000 presidential race resulted in the highest-profile ballot battle in over a century. But it is far from the only American election determine...

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

This book critically analyzes the state-based regime of international law, eliciting its colonial and decolonial origins and proposing a new sub-re...

This book draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmars genocide and ID schemes to critique prevailing international approaches to...

This book draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmars genocide and ID schemes to critique prevailing international approaches to...

The contributions of socialist thinkers and states to the development of international law often go unrecognized. Socialism and International Law: ...

The Roman Empire's approach to religion has traditionally been described in paradoxical terms. On the one hand, Rome has often been regarded as alm...

Oxford's variorum edition of William Blackstone's seminal treatise on the common law of England and Wales offers the definitive account of the Comm...