Legal history

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

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.

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

This book examines legal language as a language for special purposes, evaluating the functions and characteristics of legal language and the terminology of law.

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.

Over the last 40 years, David Ibbetson has paved the way in a remarkably broad range of fields.

When did the federal government's self-appointed, essentially limitless authority over Native America become constitutional?

The book addresses efforts to politically influence and curb the judicial system, by telling the story of the enactment of controversial laws in Norway in 1927.

When did the federal government's self-appointed, essentially limitless authority over Native America become constitutional?

The Criminal Justice System: An Introduction, Fifth Edition incorporates the latest developments in the field while retaining the basic organization of previous editions which made this textbook so popular.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Die Weimarer Republik, als erster demokratischer Versuch in Deutschland, stand von Beginn an unter Druck.

The articles in this volume trace the development of the theory that humanity forms a single world community and that there exists a body of law governing the relations among the members of that community.

The Dala Law is known through only one remaining medieval manuscript, written c.

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.

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

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

This volume draws on the recently discovered and extraordinarily rich scrapbook compiled by prosecuting solicitor Francis Hobler about the 1840 murder of Lord William Russell to consider public engagement with the issues raised from discovery of the murder itself through the ensuing legal processes.

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

Periodically, in Australian society racial chasms emerge portraying the great divide between Indigenous and non Indigenous Australians, exposing the sustained influence of the doomed race protective myth and its residue.