Legal history

Explores networks of lawyers, legislators and litigators, and how they shape legal development in Britain and the world.

The history of international criminal justice told through the revealing stories of some of its primary intellectual figures.

Bonds of Empire reveals how English law facilitated the expansion of slavery in British America.

The history of international criminal justice told through the revealing stories of some of its primary intellectual figures.

Bonds of Empire reveals how English law facilitated the expansion of slavery in British America.

The 1917 October Revolution and the revolutionary Mexican Constitution shook the foundations of international law.

An analysis of the development of historical consciousness in antebellum America, using the debate over slavery as a case study.

Featuring original research, this collection celebrates the remarkable career of former Supreme Court President, Brenda Hale.

Explores how two landmark transnational human rights lawsuits operated as transitional justice mechanisms in the former Western bloc.

An analysis of the development of historical consciousness in antebellum America, using the debate over slavery as a case study.

Explores financial aspects of constitutional government, focusing on central banking, sovereign borrowing, taxation and public expenditure.

Explores how two landmark transnational human rights lawsuits operated as transitional justice mechanisms in the former Western bloc.

Explores the role that mass migration played in shaping modern international law and politics.

Featuring original research, this collection celebrates the remarkable career of former Supreme Court President, Brenda Hale.

Explores financial aspects of constitutional government, focusing on central banking, sovereign borrowing, taxation and public expenditure.

Is it ethical for psychiatrists to call a president a narcissist?

Provides a more complete account of the human rights project that factors in the contribution of cosmopolitan Catholicism.

New Private Law Theory is pluralist, comparative, application-oriented, transnational and reflects critical approaches.

Is it ethical for psychiatrists to call a president a narcissist?

New Private Law Theory is pluralist, comparative, application-oriented, transnational and reflects critical approaches.

Provides a more complete account of the human rights project that factors in the contribution of cosmopolitan Catholicism.

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

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

Examines early modern Spanish contributions to international relations by focusing on ambivalence of natural rights in European colonial expansion to the Americas.

Provides the first detailed analysis of the evolution of the concept of corruption in colonial Mexico.

Offers a new way of understanding classical Islamic theories holding that divine revelation is necessary for the knowledge of norms.

This first study of the legal history of sex offences in Mandate Palestine pioneers a new socio-cultural perspective on evidence.

Presents an ambitious narrative and fresh re-assessment of common law and natural law''s varied interactions in America, 1630 to 1930.

Provides the first detailed analysis of the evolution of the concept of corruption in colonial Mexico.

The Crown is the bedrock of Westminster-style democracies, yet its meanings, powers and effects are opaque and little understood.

The Crown is the bedrock of Westminster-style democracies, yet its meanings, powers and effects are opaque and little understood.

An original analysis and in-depth historical examination of criminal responsibility in the context of Australian criminal law.

Biography of the Abortion Act, exploring how it was shaped by and shaped a changing UK.

This extensively updated second edition considers how Roman law worked in practice, viewed in its social and economic context.

Explores the impact of legal ideas and legal consciousness on early modern English society and culture.

This first study of the legal history of sex offences in Mandate Palestine pioneers a new socio-cultural perspective on evidence.

This rediscovery of First Amendment rights offers both an engaging constitutional history and insight into contemporary political dialogue and society.

Offers a new way of understanding classical Islamic theories holding that divine revelation is necessary for the knowledge of norms.

Presents an ambitious narrative and fresh re-assessment of common law and natural law''s varied interactions in America, 1630 to 1930.

Using the theoretical tools drawn from historical materialism and deconstruction, Tzouvala offers a comprehensive history of the standard of civilisation.

This pioneering research brings into focus the Islamic contribution and influence in the development of the modern law of the sea.

This extensively updated second edition considers how Roman law worked in practice, viewed in its social and economic context.

Using the theoretical tools drawn from historical materialism and deconstruction, Tzouvala offers a comprehensive history of the standard of civilisation.

Illustrates the origin and ways of Western hegemony over other civilizations across the world.

Explores a Washington, DC slave trader''s legal misadventures associated with transporting convict slaves through New Orleans.

Fred Korematsus decision to resist F.

Discusses natural law as a traditional but highly contested source of canon law.

A new perspective on the history of transitional justice and why the discourse prioritises particular responses to human rights violations.

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

Provides a comprehensive history of the emergence and formation of the concept of sovereignty in China from the year 1840 to the present.