Legal history

First published in 1956, From School Board to Local Authority is a meticulous and exact inquiry into the events which led up to the famous Cockerton v.

States are erecting walls at their borders at a pace unmatched in history, and the wall between the United States and Mexico stands as an icon among these dividing structures.

States are erecting walls at their borders at a pace unmatched in history, and the wall between the United States and Mexico stands as an icon among these dividing structures.

Das römische Recht kennt Ersatzklagen eines Geschädigten nicht allein gegen dessen Schädiger, sondern in zahlreichen Fällen auch gegen Dritte, an die infolge der Schädigung ein Vorteil gelangt ist.

This book considers whether Parliament recognises a constitutional right to property.

Henry Fielding (1933) examines Fielding's prodigious activity as dramatist, journalist, novelist and magistrate.

In this volume Professor Gaudemet examines the growth and development of the law of the Church.

Laws are imposed on facts.

Since its first publication in 2005, Ruling England has established itself as an authoritative account of English politics and the growth of royal power from 1042.

This second volume of essays by Professor Kelley takes the study of history as its starting point, then extends explorations into adjacent fields of legal, political, and social thought to confront some of the larger questions of the modern human sciences.

Walter Ullmann's contribution to the study of medieval political and legal thought needs no emphasis.

This third volume by Andre Gouron brings together a widely scattered set of articles on Roman law in medieval France and its influence.

A harrowing and heartbreaking account of survival and legal system failure, this book recounts a personal story of sexual assault and the lifetime impact it made on the victim and her family.

Enviado a Estados Unidos por el gobierno francés con el fin de estudiar su sistema penitenciario, el autor profundizó en su sistema político y en su organización social, que luego recogió en esta obra.

The emphasis in this present volume of Professor Feenstra's studies lies on the post-medieval development of legal scholarship.

Since its first publication in 2005, Ruling England has established itself as an authoritative account of English politics and the growth of royal power from 1042.

This volume is concerned, above all, with the legal background and the juristic issues behind the ideology and practice of the medieval Crusades.

This collection of essays from Dieter Grimm, Germany's most renowned constitutional scholar, shines a light on the jurisprudence of the German Constitutional Court and constitutional adjudication in general.

This third volume of essays by Peter Linehan deals with matters of perennial interest to all historians of medieval Church and State, and in particular to students of the history of medieval Spain and Portugal and of the papacy in the 12th and 13th centuries.

Wer erklärt das Gesetz des Königs?

This book provides histories of company law, uniting a variety of approaches from law, business and management, economics, and history.

This book considers Section 21 of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 and its significant impact on previously invisible married women in the 19th century.

Censorship of the written word has proved a constant source for debate and argument.

Roger Collins deals here with the history of Spain, specifically Christian Spain, in the period from the 6th to the 10th century - from the Visigoths, through the time of the Arab conquests, up to the end of the era of Carolingian dominance across the Pyrenees.

Censorship of the written word has proved a constant source for debate and argument.

Henry Fielding (1933) examines Fielding's prodigious activity as dramatist, journalist, novelist and magistrate.

Americas founders extolled a nation of laws, for they knew that only a fairly enforced legal system could protect liberty and property against corruption and tyranny.

First published in 1980, but then out of print for several years, this collection, together with The History of Ideas and Doctrines of Canon Law in the Middle Ages, presents a series of fundamental articles by the acknowledged master of medieval canon law studies.

State Trials, Volume II (first published in 1972) contains cases concerned with witchcraft, the scandals of the prisons, and colonial administration gathered from the full edition of State Trials completed in 1826.

State Trials, Volume I (first published in 1972) contains cases concerned with treason and the freedom of press gathered from the full edition of State Trials completed in 1826.

This book represents a unique contribution to comparative legal studies by presenting the results of an empirical research project on the use of foreign precedents in constitutional interpretation in 31 jurisdictions worldwide.

Marxist Ideology and Soviet Criminal Law (1980) is about differences between theory and practice in the Soviet Union.

The Spanish Inquisition has become such a byword for injustice that many forget it was also a judicial system capable of acquittal.

This collection explores prefaces, prologues, paratexts, and other types of framing devices.

This third volume by Andre Gouron brings together a widely scattered set of articles on Roman law in medieval France and its influence.

This collection of essays from Dieter Grimm, Germany's most renowned constitutional scholar, shines a light on the jurisprudence of the German Constitutional Court and constitutional adjudication in general.