Legal history

A powerful analysis of how regulation of the movement of enslaved and free black people produced a national immigration policy in the period between the American Revolution and the end of Reconstruction.

A powerful analysis of how regulation of the movement of enslaved and free black people produced a national immigration policy in the period between the American Revolution and the end of Reconstruction.

Since the adoption of the US constitution, there has been ongoing calibration of the power balance between the three branches of government, often in the face of rapidly changing social and political contexts.

Since the adoption of the US constitution, there has been ongoing calibration of the power balance between the three branches of government, often in the face of rapidly changing social and political contexts.

In one of the most thorough accounts of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, Nathan S.

In one of the most thorough accounts of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, Nathan S.

Guido Calabresi is an extraordinary person.

Guido Calabresi is an extraordinary person.

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The book explores the evolution of the debate on the scope and meaning of the constitutional “pacifist principles” (or “pacifist clauses”) in Italy (article 11 of the Italian Constitution) and Japan (article 9 of the Japanese Constitution) generated by the war in Ukraine.

The book explores the evolution of the debate on the scope and meaning of the constitutional “pacifist principles” (or “pacifist clauses”) in Italy (article 11 of the Italian Constitution) and Japan (article 9 of the Japanese Constitution) generated by the war in Ukraine.

This volume explores the futures of transitional justice by presenting its multiple pasts and presents across nearly half a century.

This volume explores the futures of transitional justice by presenting its multiple pasts and presents across nearly half a century.

An authoritative, even-handed, and accessible history of the Supreme Court of the United States, the most powerful court in the world and the final arbiter of the world's oldest constitution.

An innovative study of underage soldiers and their previously unrecognized impact on Civil War era America.

WINNER of 75th Nation al Jew ish Book Award: BiographyFinalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize 2026 FIVE STARS Magnificent Telegraph Compulsively readable Financial Times Gripping and timely The Times'Crackingly told' Philippe Sands'A kind of masterclass' Sebastian JungerTHE NEW BOOK FROM THE BESTSELLING, COSTA PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE VOLUNTEERThe true story of a Jewish lawyer who returned to Germany after WWII to prosecute war crimes, only to find himself pitted against a nation determined to bury the past.

In 1956, six months after the start of the Montgomery bus boycott, Alabama Attorney General John Patterson obtained from state circuit court judge Walter B.

An insider's account of the Tate-LaBianca murder trial, from the jury foreman who helped decide the fate of Charles Manson and three of his followers.

Shakespeare and the Law appreciates Shakespeare and his works as expressions of an English early modern culture in which the shared rhetorical practices of dramatists and lawyers were informed by the renaissance of classical practice.

Shakespeare and the Law appreciates Shakespeare and his works as expressions of an English early modern culture in which the shared rhetorical practices of dramatists and lawyers were informed by the renaissance of classical practice.

In Hamilton: The Energetic Founder, R.

A valuable resource for students, teachers, and citizens looking to better understand US Constitutional history With Liberty and Justice for All?

A valuable resource for students, teachers, and citizens looking to better understand US Constitutional history With Liberty and Justice for All?

The definitive account of an icon who shaped gender equality for all women.

An updated edition of the classic study of capital punishment originally published 50 years ago, with a new introduction by Barry Jones.

The first biography of George Washington's extraordinary nephew, who inherited Mount Vernon and was Chief Justice John Marshall's right-hand man on the Supreme Court for nearly thirty years.

The first biography of George Washington's extraordinary nephew, who inherited Mount Vernon and was Chief Justice John Marshall's right-hand man on the Supreme Court for nearly thirty years.

In Hamilton: The Energetic Founder, R.

In 1956, six months after the start of the Montgomery bus boycott, Alabama Attorney General John Patterson obtained from state circuit court judge Walter B.

Gender and the Jubilee is a bold reconceptualization of black freedom during the Civil War that uncovers the political and constitutional claims made by African American women.

Gender and the Jubilee is a bold reconceptualization of black freedom during the Civil War that uncovers the political and constitutional claims made by African American women.

JAVA, JUSTICE, AND THE SOUL OF INDONESIAA Lawyer's Guide to Culture, Law, and the Hopes of His Nation"e;When the law doesn't speak enough, culture will answer.

This book looks at the architecture of the courts in Scotland and the importance of these civic spaces.

Introduction to Indonesian Law: Foundations and Transformation in the Digital and Globalization Era provides a comprehensive overview of Indonesia's legal system, tracing its historical roots, foundational principles, and dynamic transformations in the face of rapid technological change and global interconnectedness.

'The rule of law and property rights were the 'secret weapons' that made Western Europe and its offshoots in North America and Oceania democratic and prosperous.

This book looks at the architecture of the courts in Scotland and the importance of these civic spaces.

'The rule of law and property rights were the 'secret weapons' that made Western Europe and its offshoots in North America and Oceania democratic and prosperous.

This ground-breaking volume presents a collection of the most important charter materials of medieval Sardinia from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries.

This edited volume examines the legal and economic world of the Romans through concepts, structures, and objects that reveal practices of standardization and localism.

This edited volume examines the legal and economic world of the Romans through concepts, structures, and objects that reveal practices of standardization and localism.

A Waterstones Best History Book 2024'Compulsively readable' - Times Literary Supplement'An outstanding work' - Philippa Gregory'A powerful narrative told with frankness and sensitivity' - Helen Fry, historian and author of Women In Intelligence'A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more they are beaten, the better they'll be.

Die Kölner Synodalstatuten des Spätmittelalters (1261–1513) sind eine wertvolle Quelle für die Rechts- und Frömmigkeitsgeschichte einer der bedeutendsten Diözesen Europas.

In 1906 a white lawyer named Dabney Marshall argued a case before the Mississippi Supreme Court demanding the racial integration of juries.

Fathers of Conscience examines high-court decisions in the antebellum South that involved wills in which white male planters bequeathed property, freedom, or both to women of color and their mixed-race children.

In the late nineteenth century the United States oversaw a great increase in extraterritorial claims, boundary disputes, extradition controversies, and transborder abduction and interdiction.

Rats, tainted food, leaky sewage pipes: they only began to hint at the anarchy inside the Kentucky State Reformatory in La Grange.

Much of the current reassessment of race, culture, and criminal justice in the nineteenth-century South has been based on intensive community studies.