Legal history

This four volume collection looks at the essential issues concerning crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century.

The Unheard Voice of Law in Bartolome de las Casas's Brevisima relacion de la destruicion de las Indias reinterprets Las Casas's controversial treatise as a legal document, whose legal character is linked to civil and ecclesial genres of the Early Modern and late Renaissance juridical tradition.

With international attention focused on Hong Kong, many forget that Macau also exists in a delicate "e;one country, two systems"e; (OCTS) balance with mainland China.

The study of the Roman Empire has changed dramatically in the last century, with significant emphasis now placed on understanding the experiences of subject populations, rather than a sole focus on the Roman imperial elites.

The Wisconsin State Constitution provides an outstanding constitutional and historical account of the state's governing charter.

She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power - 1619 to 1969 proves that The Black Woman liberated herself.

How do lawyers think?

This book explores both historical and contemporary Christian sources and dimensions of global law and includes critical perspectives from various religious and philosophical traditions.

Beverley McLachlin was the first woman to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Timely analysis of the rule of law and extradition in Hong Kong''s history through the legal case of Ho Chi Minh.

This collection brings together academic analysis of leading contemporary accounts of the British Constitution with key constitutional documents and sources while also offering analysis of the leading histories of the Constitution.

The purpose of Granville Sharpe's Cases on Slavery is twofold: first, to publish previously unpublished legal materials principally in three important cases in the 18th century on the issue of slavery in England, and specifically the status of black people who were slaves in the American colonies or the West Indies and who were taken to England by their masters.

Leading scholars discuss how changing ideas of law and authority were embedded in the historical development of British legal systems.

Why the Police Should be Trained by Black People aligns scholarly and community efforts to address how Black people are policed.

In The Arizona State Constitution, John D.

Honorable Mention: Best First book in the History of ReligionsResponding to Vine Deloria, Jr.

This volume brings together papers by a group of scholars, distinguished in their own right, in honour of James Brundage.

This book poses a question that is deceptive in its simplicity: could international law have been otherwise?

From the 1930s to the early 1960s civil rights law was made primarily through constitutional litigation.

Family Life, Family Law, and Family Justice: Tying the Knot combines history, social science, and legal analysis to chart the evolution and interdependence of family life and family law, portray current trends in family life, explain the pressing policy challenges these trends have produced, and analyze the changes in family law that are essential to meeting these challenges.

This volume from leading lawyers, historians and social scientists explores encounters of laws, people, and place in Australia since 1788.

Woman Lawyer tells the story of Clara Foltz, the first woman admitted to the California Bar.

Reconciliation, Transitional and Indigenous Justice presents fifteen reflections upon justice twenty years after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa introduced a new paradigm for political reconciliation in settler and post-colonial societies.

The volume revisits memory laws as a phenomenon of global law, transitional justice, historical narratives and claims for historical truth

This book provides a detailed analysis of one of the most prominent and widespread international phenomena to which criminal justice systems has been applied: the expression of revisionist views relating to mass atrocities and the outright denial of their existence.

This book tells the long-neglected story of women''s marital denaturalization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Almost since the event itself in 1757, the English East India Company's victory over the forces of the nawab of Bengal and the territorial acquisitions that followed has been perceived as the moment when the British Empire in India was born.

Explores the ideological, political, and economic stakes of struggles over international law''s history and its relation to empire and capitalism.

This collection brings together academic analysis of leading contemporary accounts of the British Constitution with key constitutional documents and sources while also offering analysis of the leading histories of the Constitution.

Sir John Baker''s writings touch on most aspects of English legal history, especially the legal profession and its learning.

The author and acclaimed historian of this book, originally published in 1926, was a strong advocate for the use of original source documents in the study of history, maintaining that applying historical criticism to documents, and balancing one document against another was a process of 'the highest educational value'.

Takes an in-depth look into the war victim''s right to reparation from the seventeenth century until the present day.

This book explores the complex issue of building a common European identity and the factors that contribute to it, with special regard to the role played by the interaction between national Constitutional Courts and European Courts.

In recent years, social and legal historians have called into question the degree to which the labour that fuelled and sustained industrialization in England was actually 'free'.

This book provides the first comprehensive account of the role played by the European Convention on Human Rights during the conflict in Northern Ireland from 1968.

In this lively social history, first published in 1988, Lionel Rose explores in detail the plight of the street poor between 1815 and 1985.

The Mediterranean was one of Napoleon's greatest spheres of influence.

An analysis of law and imperial rule reveals that Tsarist Russia was far more ''lawful'' than generally assumed.

Explores how local courtrooms have been a common feature of everyday life and culture since the eighteenth century.

Making the Modern American Fiscal State chronicles the rise of the US system of direct and progressive taxation.

This groundbreaking book delves into the lived experiences and collective wisdom of Indigenous communities impacted by colonialism.

The recent financial crisis led to sweeping reforms that inspired countless references to the financial reforms of the New Deal.

This book highlights the broad scope and span of resistance as a contentious practice in the early modern Iberian world.

The Roman Law of Obligations presents a series of lectures delivered by the late Peter Birks as an introductory course in Roman law.

As planet Earth continues to absorb unprecedented levels of anthropogenically induced environmental and climatic change, two similar academic schools of thought have emerged in recent years, both making sustained efforts to explain how and why this state of affairs has evolved.

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

The book deals with the making and unfolding of the Constitution of India, framed by the Constituent Assembly between 1946 and 1949.