Legal history

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

Explains impeachment from its English roots through 250 years of American constitutional experience, including the case against President Trump.

The first contemporary historiography of international law and an essential methodological guide for researching international legal history.

A leading English jurist reflects on the development of his thoughts and writings in legal theory over sixty years.

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

Community paralegals - sometimes called barefoot lawyers - help people take on injustice.

Explores marriage, sexual relations, and family law in late antique Christianity using the writings of Ephrem the Syrian.

Explores marriage, sexual relations, and family law in late antique Christianity using the writings of Ephrem the Syrian.

Shows how Christian leaders before 1000 CE understood law and used normative texts and practices for social order and eternal salvation.

Shows that the diverse ways of reasoning and judging in our law arise from the same root: a commitment to liberal legality.

An interdisciplinary history of the campaign to secure international protection of indications of geographic origin, including ''Made in …'' slogans.

Strict enforcement of unreasonable contracts can produce outrageous consequences.

Zietlow explores the ideological origins of Reconstruction and the constitutional changes in this era through the life of James Mitchell Ashley.

This book reveals the surprising impact of medicine stamp duty (1783–1941) on pharmaceutical practice and the interface of law and government.

Through tort law development, this book adopts a new and innovative approach to writing legal history in Australia.

Zhang argues that property institutions in preindustrial China and England were a cause of China''s lagging development in preindustrial times.

Zhang argues that property institutions in preindustrial China and England were a cause of China''s lagging development in preindustrial times.

The first comprehensive historical study of the Model Tax Treaties developed by the League of Nations in 1928.

Looks at the early development of the federal income tax in the United States.

The first comprehensive historical study of the Model Tax Treaties developed by the League of Nations in 1928.

Tells the story of a sensational 1791 Virginia murder case, and explores Revolutionary America''s debates over justice, criminal punishment, and equality before the law.

Explains how administrative government maintains mutual respect among citizens, legitimates administrative government under law, and supports a realistic vision of democracy.

Leading Anglo-American scholars assess the significance of the fusion of law and equity from comparative, doctrinal, historical and theoretical perspectives.

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Offers new understandings of the famous foxhunting case, Pierson v.

By using copyright in sacred texts, American religious organizations help to create, manage, and control emerging spiritual communities.

By using copyright in sacred texts, American religious organizations help to create, manage, and control emerging spiritual communities.

Explains how administrative government maintains mutual respect among citizens, legitimates administrative government under law, and supports a realistic vision of democracy.

This volume brings together a group of contributors from varied backgrounds to tell a history of intellectual property in 50 objects.

A theory of religious freedom for the modern era that uses natural law from ancient Greek, Jewish, Christian and Islamic sources.

A major contribution to our understanding of present-day historical consciousness through a study of memory laws across Europe.

Develops a new account of historical injustice and redress, demonstrating why a consideration of history is crucial for gender equality.

A major contribution to our understanding of present-day historical consciousness through a study of memory laws across Europe.

An innovative legal history of economic life in the Western Indian Ocean, charting the emergence of a trans-oceanic contractual culture.

This book traces the origins and influence of the right to privacy as a social, cultural and ultimately legal idea.

Examines the impact fugitive slaves had on the Fugitive Slave Law and the coming of the American Civil War.

Examines the impact fugitive slaves had on the Fugitive Slave Law and the coming of the American Civil War.

Identifies and explains the constitutional problems triggered by the government''s speech, and proposes a new framework for thinking about them.

This book examines how voluntary sustainability standards can be used to both regulate and coordinate producers in industries.

Offers historical, philosophical, legal, and political insights into the First Amendment, religious liberty, and church-state relations.

Offers historical, philosophical, legal, and political insights into the First Amendment, religious liberty, and church-state relations.

Examines clashes over religious liberty spanning the life cycle of families - from birth to death.

In this book, Eldar Haber describes how copyright has become over-criminalized.

In this book, Eldar Haber describes how copyright has become over-criminalized.

A complete picture and thorough analysis of the international norms and bodies dealing with the enforcement of intellectual property rights.

Malcolm Feeley''s classic scholarship on courts, criminal justice, legal reform, and the legal complex, examined by law and society scholars.

Tells the tragic story of Puerto Ricans who sought the post-Civil War regime of citizenship, rights, and statehood but instead received racist imperial governance.

A complete picture and thorough analysis of the international norms and bodies dealing with the enforcement of intellectual property rights.

Provides students with an introduction to legal philosophy, using the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to reflect on human rights.