Legal history

This book explores the treason trial of President Jefferson Davis, where the question of secession''s constitutionality was debated.

Identifying for the first time the true nature of maintenance, this study uses primary sources to reach new findings on its lawfulness.

Identifying for the first time the true nature of maintenance, this study uses primary sources to reach new findings on its lawfulness.

This sweeping sociological analysis traces the emergence of intellectual property as a new type of legal property.

Explores the past and current rules regulating the copyright/design interface in fifteen countries and provides solutions for the future.

This sweeping sociological analysis traces the emergence of intellectual property as a new type of legal property.

Draws on archival research to tell the story of the nineteenth and twentieth-century development of commercial law through practice.

Explores the past and current rules regulating the copyright/design interface in fifteen countries and provides solutions for the future.

Looks at international negotiation from a novel, relational international law perspective and challenges prescriptive models.

World War I and the American Constitution analyzes how the First World War transformed American constitutional law.

Equality and Discrimination Law in Australia: An Introduction adopts a groundbreaking approach in its delivery of key principles.

Equality and Discrimination Law in Australia: An Introduction adopts a groundbreaking approach in its delivery of key principles.

A critical catalogue of how lawyers use history - as authority, as evocation of lost golden ages, as a nightmare to escape and as progress towards enlightenment.

This book studies family life and gender within Italy through the lens of law and legal disputes.

This book examines the lessons learned from twenty-five years of using DNA to free innocent prisoners and identifies lingering challenges.

This book studies family life and gender within Italy through the lens of law and legal disputes.

Great Christian Jurists in English History comprises biographical portraits of leading jurists and judges assessing the influence of their Christianity.

With newly uncovered personal papers, this volume offers in-depth analysis of Wesley Hohfeld''s pioneering contributions to legal theory.

Great Christian Jurists in English History comprises biographical portraits of leading jurists and judges assessing the influence of their Christianity.

The Care of the Witness explores the historical shifts in the crises of witnessing to genocide, war, and disaster and their contribution to nongovernmental politics.

This book presents an empirically rigorous and theoretically sophisticated account of political trials.

The Care of the Witness explores the historical shifts in the crises of witnessing to genocide, war, and disaster and their contribution to nongovernmental politics.

This book explores diplomacy and ritual practice at a moment of new departures and change in both early modern Europe and Russia.

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

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

This book examines how European imperial powers imagined imperial space, constructing sovereignty in ways that merged geographic discourse with law.

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

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

Focuses on the exercise and protection of cross- and beyond-border expressive and religious liberties, and on the First Amendment''s relationship to the world beyond US shores.

Leading historians of English law examine the relationship between substantive law and legal process from medieval to modern times.

This book is the first book to look closely and critically at the history of images of law.

Leading historians of English law examine the relationship between substantive law and legal process from medieval to modern times.

This book is the first book to look closely and critically at the history of images of law.

A biography of Thomas Scrutton, who has been described as ''the greatest English-speaking commercial judge of a century''.

A biography of Thomas Scrutton, who has been described as ''the greatest English-speaking commercial judge of a century''.

A study of how the development of representative politics in late-colonial India transformed notions of family, gender and religious community.

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

A study of how the development of representative politics in late-colonial India transformed notions of family, gender and religious community.

This historical introduction to the civil law tradition considers the political and cultural context of Europe''s legal history.

This historical introduction to the civil law tradition considers the political and cultural context of Europe''s legal history.

Yvonne Pitts explores nineteenth-century Kentucky inheritance practices by focusing on testamentary capacity trials in which disinherited family members challenged relatives'' wills.

Yvonne Pitts explores nineteenth-century Kentucky inheritance practices by focusing on testamentary capacity trials in which disinherited family members challenged relatives'' wills.

The story of the breakdown of limited government in America and the rise of the federal state.

The story of the breakdown of limited government in America and the rise of the federal state.

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.

Travers explores how Mughal political and legal culture shaped and was reshaped by the British colonial state in Bengal.

Travers explores how Mughal political and legal culture shaped and was reshaped by the British colonial state in Bengal.

A new understanding of the transformative effect of vernacular writing on customary law in medieval France.

An insightful analysis of the rise of forensic medicine in modern France and doctors'' authority in the legal arena.

A fascinating study of how elite white men in eighteenth-century Massachusetts incorporated the ethos of politeness into the law of criminal speech.