Legal history

An analysis of peace treaty practice from the late fifteenth century to the Peace of Versailles of 1919.

This book challenges accounts about the development and operation of the common law.

Legal analysis, historical and political critique of the rise and fall of modern international law.

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

The rule of law, or Rechtsstaatsprinzip, is one of Germany's oldest constitutional principles and forms part of Germany's constitutional self-understanding.

Steinberg''s field-defining work shows how Boccaccio''s Decameron reveals unexpected connections between the contemporary emergence of literary realism and legal inquisition in early modern Europe.

This in-depth examination of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 provides a chronological review of the events, ordinances, and pervasive attitudes that preceded, coincided with, and followed its enactment.

Groundbreaking new approach to the idea of treason in medieval England, showing the profound effect played by gender.

An important new contribution to the emerging field of late medieval supplicatory cultures.

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

A study of how English legal culture, with its strong emphasis on common law, engaged with the new ideas of the Enlightenment.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history.

This book explores the evolution of the shareholder in post-war Britain within the context of changing legal, political, economic, and social conditions.

This book explores the evolution of the shareholder in post-war Britain within the context of changing legal, political, economic, and social conditions.

Fresh approaches to how premodern women were viewed in legal terms, demonstrating how this varied from country to country and across the centuries.

A compelling examination of interposition as a constitutional tool that states use to monitor the federal government and organize resistance.

Interrogates the role of power and emotions in the responses of Western States and churches to their historical abuses.

Roman law has shaped the Civil law tradition but its influence undoubtedly also extends to Common law countries.

Examines different persons, periods, places, and principles to weave a narrative about a practice that spawned a legal tradition.

Women's Legal Landmarks in the Interwar Years shines new light on 33 legal landmarks, many forgotten today, that affected women in England and Wales between 1918 and 1939.

This book reassesses AV Dicey's legacy in political and legal thought through the reflections of leading scholars who consider his importance not only in today's British constitutional and legal culture but also in other foreign constitutional cultures.

Examines local transitional justice processes in post-conflict Sierra Leone to explain how these programs work in practice.

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This book assembles critical contributions on the work of TRS Allan, the Professor Emeritus of Jurisprudence and Public Law at the University of Cambridge, whose leading work in legal and constitutional theory spans almost 45 years.