Legal history

Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America.

Few issues attract greater concern and censure than those that surround youth 'gangs'.

It was the classical task of legal rhetoric to make law both seen and understood.

The first critical edition of Alfred the Great''s domboc (''book of laws'') in over a century.

This innovative book comprises nine essays from leading scholars which investigate the relationship between fiction, censorship and the legal construction of obscenity in Britain between 1850 and the present day.

The fundamental, inalienable rights and privileges set forth in the Bill of Rights represent the very foundations of American liberty.

This book provides a lively and accessible account of Australia's most prominent crimes and criminals of the nineteenth and twentieth century and offers an informative background for those seeking to understand crimes committed today.

Seeking Sanctuary explores a curious aspect of premodern English law: the right of felons to shelter in a church or ecclesiastical precinct, remaining safe from arrest and trial in the king's courts.

This book examines how child protection law has been shaped by the transition to late modernity and how it copes with the ever-changing concept of risk.

A fascinating comparative history of the legal arguments and strategies used to regulate expression in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia.

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

A comparative and historical account of the origins and meanings of the discourse of judicial ''balancing'' in constitutional rights law.

A concise, accessible, and engaging guide to the law of treason, written by the nation’s foremost expert on the subjectThe only crime defined in the United States Constitution, treason is routinely described by judges as more heinous than murder.

This unparalleled Companion provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to Islamic law to all with an interest in this increasingly relevant and developing field.

This study of Edward Coke''s legal thought reinterprets the political and legal thought of early Stuart England.

Renowned legal historian Lawrence Friedman presents an accessible and authoritative history of American law from the colonial era to the present day.

This book challenges conventional assumptions about the afterlife of Magna Carta and tells a new story.

This book is an intellectual history of Ernst Fraenkel's The Dual State (1941, reissued 2017), one of the most erudite books on the theory of dictatorship ever written.

At the time of his death in 1998, at the age of 47, Norman Calder had become the most widely-discussed scholar in his field.

Punitive damages are private law's most controversial remedy.

At a time when the hottest issue in US immigration law is the proposed action by President Obama to protect from deportation as many as 5 million illegals in the United States, the 1972 John Lennon deportation case takes on special relevance today, notwithstanding the passage of forty years since he was placed in deportation proceedings.

International Relations and International Law continue to be accented by epistemic violence by naturalizing a separation between law and morality.

A selection of outstanding papers from the 24th British Legal History Conference, celebrating scholarship in comparative legal history.

This title was first published in 2001.

First published in 1993, Crimes of Style investigates the politics of culture and crime through an in-depth case study of graffiti in Denver and the official response to it.

A major study of landholding in medieval England based on original sources with an extensive index.

Compulsory education has always been in the best interest of the state, as it fosters good citizenship and self-sufficiency.

Questions of legal extraterritoriality figure prominently in scholarship on legal pluralism, transnational legal studies, international investment law, international human rights law, state responsibility under international law, and a large number of other areas.

In a popular sense, 'law' connotes the rules of a society, as well as the institutions that make and enforce those rules.

From 1819 to 1914, governments in northern North America struggled to deal with crime and criminals migrating across the Canadian-American border.

This book is a collection of key legal decisions affecting Indigenous Australians, which have been re-imagined so as to be inclusive of Indigenous people's stories, historical experience, perspectives and worldviews.

This book argues that Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

This books highlights the impact of Christianity on the history of law and societal policies in the Low Countries.

Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution challenges the prevailing account of the Supreme Court of the New Deal era, which holds that in the spring of 1937 the Court suddenly abandoned jurisprudential positions it had staked out in such areas as substantive due process and commerce clause doctrine.

This collective volume delves into the criminal responsibility of judges under authoritarian regimes, with case studies from Germany, Argentina, and Chile, examining their involvement in criminal human rights abuses and failures to protect victims from such crimes.

The world is poised for another important transition.

Why did the British and American corporate tax systems diverge early in the twentieth century and is convergence now likely?

The Vastgota Laws contains the translation of the oldest of the Swedish provincial law codes and other texts of great relevance to the legal history.

This book explores how political debates and legal reforms on criminalization of racial violence have shaped American racial history.

When Women Won the Vote focuses on the final decade (1910-1920) of American women's fight for the vote-a fight that had already been underway for more than sixty years, and which culminated in the passage of the 19th amendment in 1920.

This book is concerned with the history of the idea of human rights.

Of all the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson had the most substantial direct experience with the issues surrounding intellectual property rights and their impact on creativity, invention, and innovation.

Jurists, historians and theologians from five faiths and three continents examine the importance of Magna Carta''s religious foundations.

This book offers in-depth insights on the struggles implementing the rule of law in nineteenth century Ceylon, introduced into the colonies by the British as their "e;greatest gift.

This book, first published in 1984, is a selective, annotated bibliography on women and deviance that includes historical, cross cultural, sociological, psychological, political, legal, philosophical, and social policy perspectives.

This book explores the constitutional issues at the heart of the conflict between Britain and its American colonies in the eighteenth century.

This book draws on interviews and primary sources to argue that the protection of judicial independence is a political achievement.

This book explores the legal culture of the Parsis, an ethno-religious community unusually invested in the colonial legal system of British India and Burma.

A comprehensive history of martial law, outlining how it was a vital component of England''s domestic and imperial legal order.