Legal history

Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America.

This volume offers a fresh perspective on custom''s enduring place in both domestic and international law.

Using a wide range of primary sources, this book provides a radical reassessment of eighteenth-century marriage law and practice.

Legal Publishing in Antebellum America presents a history of the law book publishing and distribution industry in the United States.

Explores the inextricable ties between literary form and legal matter in Athens'' juridical discourse.

Major new study of Ivo of Chartres, providing a new interpretation of the authorship of works attributed to him.

This book examines the influence of opposing constitutional ideals during the ''founding period'' of constitutionalism in the Americas.

This volume offers a fresh perspective on custom''s enduring place in both domestic and international law.

Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America.

Explains how America adopted the widely deplored Sedition Act of 1798 and how it undermined the political ideals of the American Revolution.

Legal Publishing in Antebellum America presents a history of the law book publishing and distribution industry in the United States.

Explores the inextricable ties between literary form and legal matter in Athens'' juridical discourse.

This book examines the influence of opposing constitutional ideals during the ''founding period'' of constitutionalism in the Americas.

Law''s Imagined Republic shows how the American Revolution was marked by the rapid proliferation of law talk across the colonies.

This book analyses the documents by which land was transferred from one person to another in medieval England.

This book challenges understandings of child labor by tracing how law altered the meanings of work for young people in the United States.

In this book, Colin Imber has put together and edited four previously unpublished essays in the field of Islamic law by Norman Calder.

This collection of case studies from fourteen European legal systems analyses the legal protection of personality interests in Europe.

Major new study of Ivo of Chartres, providing a new interpretation of the authorship of works attributed to him.

This book analyses the documents by which land was transferred from one person to another in medieval England.

Using a wide range of primary sources, this book provides a radical reassessment of eighteenth-century marriage law and practice.

This book provides an innovative interpretation of industrialization and statebuilding in the US by tracing the development of regulated competition.

This book examines legal formularies from the Merovingian and Carolingian periods, and considers their problems and possibilities as historical sources.

This study examines the history and organization of trans-Saharan trade in western Africa using original source material.

This book explores the implications of globalisation for the theoretical study of law, justice, and human rights.

Exploring what globalisation can teach us about Western legal tradition through seminal events.

How the American people could both be the ruler and the ruled led to choices that explain the current American constitutionalism.

Focusing on South Africa from 1650–2000, Meierhenrich examines how law structures democracy in changing societies.

This book offers insights on how the framers and ratifiers of the Constitution were influenced by classical political theory and ancient history.

Marriage litigation in York, Ely, Paris, Cambrai, and Brussels during the medieval period.

Allison employs an historical constitutional approach to assess doctrines and institutions in English constitutional law.

This volume offers a substantial discussion of ancient monarchies from the viewpoint of the ruler''s court.

An examination of the history of crime and criminal justice in late medieval Italy.

A study of law and early modern English literature.

This 2007 book is a comprehensive elucidation of the legal historical foundations of a major contemporary public institution, the statutory tribunal.

This 2007 text charts the history of the shifting relations between law and literature, from the Renaissance to contemporary culture.

This 2006 book traces the development of the income tax and its precursors in Britain and its former colonies to 1820.

A study of literary fellowship and clubbing that includes John Donne, Ben Jonson and Thomas Coryate.

Study of the making of law in England in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

An in-depth 2006 study of the careers and roles of judges in France, Germany, Spain, Sweden and England.

This book describes how the international spread of antitrust suggested the historical process shaping global capitalism.

This 2006 book offers an interpretation of the constitutional law and politics of slavery.

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.

This book explores the complicated relationship between constitutions and transitional justice.

This book explores the complicated relationship between constitutions and transitional justice.

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