Legal history

This book maps the changes in court advocacy in England and Wales over the last three centuries.

The first eleven essays in this collection treat the application of Islamic law in qadi courts in the Maghrib in the period between 1100 and 1500 CE.

This book examines legal language as a language for special purposes, evaluating the functions and characteristics of legal language and the terminology of law.

Originally published in 1984, Literature and Law in the Middle Ages is a comprehensive bibliography on the subject of literature and law in the Middle Ages.

This collection presents an innovative series of essays about the medieval culture of Feud and Violence.

For better and sometimes for worse, Congress is a reflection of the aspirations, wants, and priorities of the American people.

Today we hold the Constitution in such high regard that we can hardly imagine how hotly contested was its adoption.

Briefs of Leading Cases in Corrections, Sixth Edition, offers extensive updates on the leading Supreme Court cases impacting corrections in the United States-prisons and jails, probation, parole, the death penalty, juvenile justice, and sexual assault offender laws.

The Delaware State Constitution is the first state constitution drafted by a convention composed of popularly elected representatives, and it is rich with history and tradition.

This volume in the landmark Oxford History of the Laws of England series, spans three centuries that encompassed the tumultuous years of the Norman conquest, and during which the common law as we know it today began to emerge.

This edited collection offers multi-disciplinary reflections and analysis on a variety of themes centred on nineteenth century executions in the UK, many specifically related to the fundamental change in capital punishment culture as the execution moved from the public arena to behind the prison wall.

Originally published in 1945.

As American Indian tribes seek to overcome centuries of political and social marginalization, they face daunting obstacles.

It has long been held that humans need government to impose social order on a chaotic, dangerous world.

Trial and Error traces the coverage or lack thereof, of evolution in textbooks used in American public schools from the mid-1800s to the present.

In ancient Athenian democracy there were one hundred and thirty-nine official demes, or recognized population centres, which formed the foundation of the political system introduced by Kleisthenes in 508/7 BC.

The focus of this book is on the legal status of the Jews within the Roman Empire and the changes that it underwent when the empire became Christian.

Originally published in 1940.

The Second Amendment, by far the most controversial amendment to the US Constitution, will soon celebrate its 225th anniversary.

This compelling study of the American public's response to the fate of accused murderer Hattie Woolsteen uses this legal case to examine the complexities of gender history and societal fears about the changing roles of women during the Victorian era.

Islamic legal theory (usA l al-fiqh) is literally regarded as 'the roots of the law' whilst Islamic jurists consider it to be the basis of Islamic jurisprudence and thus an essential aspect of Islamic law.

Focusing on three key stages of the criminal justice process, discipline, punishment and desistance, and incorporating case studies from Asia, the Americas, Europe, Africa and Australia, the thirteen chapters in this collection are based on exciting new research that explores the evolution and adaptation of criminal justice and penal systems, largely from the early nineteenth century to the present.

In medieval Italy the practice of revenge as criminal justice was still popular amongst members of all social classes, yet crime also was increasingly perceived as a public matter that needed to be dealt with by the government rather than private citizens.

Contributing an original dimension to the significant body of published scholarship on women in 16th-century England, this study examines the largest corpus of women's private writings available to historians: their wills.

This volume is the second in the Essays in the History of Canadian Law series, designed to illustrate the wide possibilities for research and writing in Canadian legal history.

This book addresses the need for policing scholarship to strengthen its empirical cumulative knowledge base by replicating and reproducing earlier studies.

Murder in the Tower consists of fifteen chapters, each giving an account of a different 17th-century criminal trial.

The Second Formation of Islamic Law offers a new periodization of Islamic legal history in the eastern Islamic lands.

Redemption, Rehabilitation and Risk Management provides the most accessible and up-to-date account of the origins and development of the Probation Service in England and Wales.

This book presents a Foucauldian problematisation analysis of crime, with a particular focus on the twentieth century.

In a society where public speech was integral to the decision-making process, and where all affairs pertaining to the community were the subject of democratic debate, the communication between the speaker and his audience in the public forum, whether the law-court or the Assembly, cannot be separated from the notion of performance.

In the early second century CE, two Jewish women, Babatha and Salome Komaise, lived in the village of Maoza on the southern coast of the Dead Sea.

This book is a research guide and bibliography of Parliamentary material, including the Old Scottish Parliament and the Old Irish Parliament, relating to patents and inventions from the early seventeenth century to 1976.

Illiberal democracies are not quasi-authoritarian but plebiscitarian regimes.

The non-judicial confinement of women is a common event in medieval European literature and hagiography.

When James Monroe became president in 1817, the United States urgently needed a national transportation system to connect new states and territories in the west with older states facing the Atlantic Ocean.

This book explores early modern ideas of chastity and their cultural, political, medical, moral and theological applications.

An important and wide-ranging collection of legal texts from ancient Egypt in translation with full elucidation by experts.

In Medieval Poor Law: A Sketch of Canonical Theory and Its Application in England, Brian Tierney provides an insightful and groundbreaking exploration of the Church's pivotal role in the development of social services during the Middle Ages.

Challenges much of the conventional wisdom about Holmes, exploring his identity through his nineteenth-century social and intellectual context.

This title was originally published in 1959.

This book sheds new light on early twentieth-century secularism by examining campaigns to challenge dominant Christian approaches to the teaching of morality and citizenship in English schools, and to offer superior alternatives.

This book untangles the components of police education and advocates a robust community-based training model with significant civilian oversight.

This book will expand students' knowledge and understanding of the evolution of juvenile justice in the last 50 years.

Across eighteenth-century China a wide range of common people forged government documents or pretended to be officials or other agents of the state.

This book presents an up-to-date analysis of women as victims of crime, as individuals under justice system supervision, and as professionals in the field.

On January 14, 1806, Sidney Hanson was raped by John Deskins on a rough gravel path in the woods in Tazewell County, Virginia.

Social Identity and the Law: Race, Sexuality and Intersectionality is an important resource for inquiry into the relationship between law and social identity in the contexts of race, sexuality and intersectionality in the United States.

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms may only be thirty-five years old but it is an important document for all Canadians.