Legal history

Modern criminal courts are characteristically the domain of lawyers, with trials conducted in an environment of formality and solemnity, where facts are found and legal rules are impartially applied to administer justice.

The Second Formation of Islamic Law offers a new periodization of Islamic legal history in the eastern Islamic lands.

The first historical treatment of tort law in England during a formative period of its development.

Fresh approaches to how premodern women were viewed in legal terms, demonstrating how this varied from country to country and across the centuries.

Janet McLean explores how British legal thought has imagined the state and the public sphere since 1832.

"e;Lawmaking and Adjudication in Archaic Greece"e; re-evaluates central aspects of the genesis and application of laws in the communities of archaic Greece, including the structure and function of legislative bodies, the composition of the courts, the administration of justice and the use and abuse of legal norms and procedures by litigants in the courts and everyday settings.

Is there a future for the law?

The role and function of criminal justice in a conquered colony is always problematic, and the case of Quebec is no exception.

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

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Exploring the boundaries of the law as they existed in medieval and early modern times and as they have been perceived by historians, this volume offers a wide ranging insight into a key aspect of European society.

From the 1890s onwards, social reformers, volunteer lawyers, and politicians increasingly came to see access to affordable or free legal advice as a critical part of helping working-class people uphold their rights with landlords, employers, and retailers - and, from the 1940s, with the welfare state.

This book analyses the founding years of consumer law and consumer policy in Europe.

HLA Hart's The Concept of Law is one of the most influential works of philosophy of the twentieth century, redefining the field of legal philosophy and introducing generations of students to philosophical reflection on the nature of law.

Volume 2 of this two-volume companion study into the administration, experience, impact and representation of summary justice in Scotland explores the role of police courts in moulding cultural ideas, social behaviours and urban environments in the nineteenth century.

Biographical portraits of leading jurists and judges, assessing the influence of their Christianity on their contribution to Spanish law.

Guta Lag, the law of the independent island of Gotland, is one of the earliest laws of Scandinavia.

Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World surveys the ways in which people from the time of Luther and Columbus to that of Thomas Jefferson used Christian ideas and institutions to regulate and shape sexual norms and conduct, and examines the impact of their efforts.

More than thirty years ago, section 35 of the Constitution Act recognized and affirmed “the existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada.

This book considers the law, policy and procedure for child witnesses in Australian criminal courts across the twentieth century.

The United States Circuit Courts of Appeals are among the most important governmental institutions in our society.

Lawyer, judge, politician, poet, teacher, and architect, William Blackstone was a major figure in eighteenth century public life.

Reproduction and the Constitution in the United States dissects the forces that shape US conflicts over birth control and abortion.

The book considers Australian First Nations constitutionalism by drawing on the chthonic constitutional traditions of three distinct Australian First Nations legal orders: the Warlpiri, Yolngu, and Pintupi legal orders, in the endeavour of identifying, via a comparative analysis, a core of similarities to be drawn upon and articulate an emergent legal theory common to the three legal orders.

She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power - 1619 to 1969 proves that The Black Woman liberated herself.

Saint Antoninus of Florence was a Dominican friar and archbishop of Florence from 1446 to 1459.

Approaches the study of Indian law through the lens of 16 of the most impactful law review articles.

This book tells the long-neglected story of women''s marital denaturalization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

After Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt, claiming a never documented military necessity, ordered the removal and incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II solely because of their ancestry.

This book assembles leading legal, political, and moral philosophers to examine the legacy of the work of Ronald Dworkin.

A legal and cultural history of censorship, youth protection, and national identity in early twentieth-century Germany.

Volume 2 of this two-volume companion study into the administration, experience, impact and representation of summary justice in Scotland explores the role of police courts in moulding cultural ideas, social behaviours and urban environments in the nineteenth century.

For all the attention paid to the Founder Fathers in contemporary American debates, it has almost been wholly forgotten how deeply they embraced an ambitious and intellectually profound valuation of foreign legal experience.

Rumpole and His Rivals examines comic legal fiction and the role it plays in the public's understanding of the legal system.

Oxford's variorum edition of William Blackstone's seminal treatise on the common law of England and Wales offers the definitive account of the Commentaries' development in a modern format.

This fully revised and updated second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law provides a wide-ranging and diverse critical survey of comparative law at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

The first comprehensive study of Chilean constitutional history in the English language.

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Through a landmark court case in mid-nineteenth-century colonial India, this book investigates hierarchy and racial difference.

This book is an account of the tension between the need for order and the desire for freedom during the tense years of the Weimar Republic.

This book throws new light on white-collar crime, criminals and criminality in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain.

Between Indigenous and Settler Governance addresses the history, current development and future of Indigenous self-governance in four settler-colonial nations: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States.

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In this gracefully written, accessible and entertaining volume, John Semonche surveys censorship for reasons of sex from the nineteenth century up to the present.

Dred Scott and his landmark Supreme Court case are ingrained in the national memory, but he was just one of multitudes who appealed for their freedom in courtrooms across the country.

In 1876, a recently dethroned sultan, Abdulaziz, was found dead in his cham- bers, the veins in his arm slashed.

This volume deals with the manifold ways in which histories are debated and indeed historicity and historiography themselves are interrogated via the narrative modes of the truth commissions.