Legal history

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

A practical and lively discussion of the English Law on statutes.

A practical and lively discussion of the English Law on statutes.

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

Challenges much of the conventional wisdom about Holmes, exploring his identity through his nineteenth-century social and intellectual context.

A unique volume demonstrating how law changes by reason of challenges to authority which seek the recognition of rights.

A Festschrift in honour of Professor Sir John Baker, presented by leading scholars on the sources of English legal history.

Challenges much of the conventional wisdom about Holmes, exploring his identity through his nineteenth-century social and intellectual context.

Moral Contagion highlights the central roles that race and international diplomacy played in the development of American citizenship.

Argues that workers'' compensation laws created new employment discrimination against disabled people and a new injury culture that treated employees and their injuries instrumentally.

Reconceives civil rights as a set of legal guarantees that all will be included in the legal, political, economic and social projects central to civil society.

Spanning the island of Ireland over three centuries, this first history of Irish divorce focuses on the human experience of marriage breakdown.

In the 2016 Hamlyn Lectures, Chief Justice of New Zealand, Dame Sian Elias critiques recent changes in criminal justice systems.

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

Provides a compelling account of early American constitutionalism in the Founding era.

Provides a compelling account of early American constitutionalism in the Founding era.

A dramatic, multi-generational story of a family of Indian landlords negotiating the laws of three empires: Mughal, Maratha and British.

Presents a global history of dress regulation and debates around how human life and societies should be visualised and materialised.

Develops a theory of the modern state based on trust, drawing on Law, History and Social Science.

Examines many seminal experiments in international adjudication and the origins of several major existing international courts.

Takes an in-depth look into the war victim''s right to reparation from the seventeenth century until the present day.

A wide-ranging comparative and in-depth examination of ancient legal systems and legal thought in ancient Western and Eastern societies.

Presents a global history of dress regulation and debates around how human life and societies should be visualised and materialised.

An exploration of how petty theft in the nineteenth-century German countryside contributed to the modern-day legal system and property laws.

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

Discusses the judicial role in constitutional authoritarianism in the context of Korea''s political and constitutional transitions.

Takes an in-depth look into the war victim''s right to reparation from the seventeenth century until the present day.

Reveals how people thought about, used, manipulated and resisted the law from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, focusing on everyday legal experiences.

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

How do lawyers think?

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

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

Provides a detailed reconstruction of the heated debates between Salafis and Traditionalist over the contested role of Islamic scholarly authority.

The first volume to explore the role of race and empire in political theory debates over global justice.

Provides a detailed reconstruction of the heated debates between Salafis and Traditionalist over the contested role of Islamic scholarly authority.

Shows that the law of freedom, not slavery, determined the way that race developed over time in three slave societies.

A rich, pathbreaking study on nineteenth-century rural Cuba, and how Afro-descendant peasants forged freedom through litigation and land occupation.

The first contemporary historiography of international law and an essential methodological guide for researching international legal history.

An analysis of law and imperial rule reveals that Tsarist Russia was far more ''lawful'' than generally assumed.

A compelling examination of the highly criticized use of long-term solitary confinement in Philadelphia''s Eastern State Penitentiary during the nineteenth century.

A rich, pathbreaking study on nineteenth-century rural Cuba, and how Afro-descendant peasants forged freedom through litigation and land occupation.

An analysis of law and imperial rule reveals that Tsarist Russia was far more ''lawful'' than generally assumed.

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

A compelling examination of the highly criticized use of long-term solitary confinement in Philadelphia''s Eastern State Penitentiary during the nineteenth century.

Profiles nineteen of America''s greatest Christian jurists from the early colonial era to the present day.

Offers a structuralist critique of the relationship between pragmatism and liberalism in American legal thought.

A wide-ranging comparative and in-depth examination of ancient legal systems and legal thought in ancient Western and Eastern societies.

Examines many seminal experiments in international adjudication and the origins of several major existing international courts.

Examines Europe''s first significant national policies on social welfare in the late nineteenth century, which had major implications for state-society relations.

Shows that the law of freedom, not slavery, determined the way that race developed over time in three slave societies.