Legal History

Legal legend Judge Louis F. Oberdorfer once stated that there were only two people in the world who really understood the Constitution and its impa...

The Spanish Inquisition has become such a byword for injustice that many forget it was also a judicial system capable of acquittal. This study of m...

The Spanish Inquisition has become such a byword for injustice that many forget it was also a judicial system capable of acquittal. This study of m...

A novel account of the relationship between sincerity, religious freedom, and the secular in the United States.   Sincerely held religious belief i...

Sources of English Legal History: Public Law to 1750 is the definitive source book on the foundations of English public law. A companion to Baker a...

Opened up by the revival of Classical thought but driven by the violence of the Reformation and Counter Reformation, the terrain of Early Modern la...

For 30 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse chronicled the activities of the U.S. Supreme Court and its justices as a correspo...

A century after the publication of Evgeny Pashukanis pivotal book General Theory of Law and Marxism, this collection presents a comprehensive accou...

The Politics of Co-Opposition reveals how a completely new form of political engagement in the British Isles - the 2021-24 Co-operation Agreement b...

The Age of Reform the hundred years from 1820 to 1920 - has become synonymous with innovation and change but this period was also in many ways a d...

How should we talk about the law in a period so remote from our own and covering such a huge span of time and space? From the Code of Hammurabi (ca...

In 500, the legal order in Europe was structured around ancient customs, social practices and feudal values. By 1500, the effects of demographic ch...

The period of the Enlightenment was marked by innovation in political, cultural, religious, and educational ideas with the aim of improving the exp...

The period since the First World War has been a century distinguished by the loss of any unitary foundation for truth, ethics, and the legitimate a...

The essays selected for this volume, written by some of the worlds most respected experts on human rights, encompass the development of human right...

The Age of Reform the hundred years from 1820 to 1920 - has become synonymous with innovation and change but this period was also in many ways a d...

In 500, the legal order in Europe was structured around ancient customs, social practices and feudal values. By 1500, the effects of demographic c...

The period since the First World War has been a century distinguished by the loss of any unitary foundation for truth, ethics, and the legitimate a...

How should we talk about the law in a period so remote from our own and covering such a huge span of time and space? From the Code of Hammurabi (ca...

The period of the Enlightenment was marked by innovation in political, cultural, religious, and educational ideas with the aim of improving the exp...

Opened up by the revival of Classical thought but riven by the violence of the Reformation and Counter Reformation, the terrain of Early Modern law...