Legal history

Codes of Jewish law may look similar, but they represent very different ways of thinking about the law.

Codes of Jewish law may look similar, but they represent very different ways of thinking about the law.

Explores the emergence and contestation of State responsibility for rebels in the context of the decolonisation of Latin America.

Explores the emergence and contestation of State responsibility for rebels in the context of the decolonisation of Latin America.

A fascinating comparative history of the legal arguments and strategies used to regulate expression in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia.

A critical history of European sovereignty and property rights as the foundation of the international order in 1300–1870.

A critical history of European sovereignty and property rights as the foundation of the international order in 1300–1870.

A fascinating comparative history of the legal arguments and strategies used to regulate expression in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia.

A comprehensive study of the US Supreme Court that explores the transformation of constitutional law from 1930 to 1941.

Challenges depictions of law as a façade for political repression by examining political trials in Zimbabwe after 2000.

A comprehensive study of the US Supreme Court that explores the transformation of constitutional law from 1930 to 1941.

Challenges depictions of law as a façade for political repression by examining political trials in Zimbabwe after 2000.

This book introduces a new conceptual framework for impunity within state crime theory and uses Turkish state criminality against Kurds between 1990 and 2000 as a case study.

Argues that Britain, the USA, and the USSR overrode legal rights in Palestine in pursuit of their own self-interests.

Argues that Britain, the USA, and the USSR overrode legal rights in Palestine in pursuit of their own self-interests.

A rich study exploring the use of detention without trial to facilitate imperial expansion of the British African Empire.

A rich study exploring the use of detention without trial to facilitate imperial expansion of the British African Empire.

Offers an algorithmic solution to the problem of legal fictions: enter a fiction and find the answer.

Offers an algorithmic solution to the problem of legal fictions: enter a fiction and find the answer.

Analyses marriage law''s development since 1836—its complexity, failures to respond to societal change, and constraints on different beliefs.

This book addresses historical issues of colonialism and race, which influenced the formation of multicultural society in Mauritius.

This book addresses recent changes in Central and Eastern Europe in order to critically consider the impact of illiberal conservatism on constitutionalism.

This book addresses recent changes in Central and Eastern Europe in order to critically consider the impact of illiberal conservatism on constitutionalism.

The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the Constitution of Bangladesh.

The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the Constitution of Bangladesh.

This book provides a lively and accessible account of Australia's most prominent crimes and criminals of the nineteenth and twentieth century and offers an informative background for those seeking to understand crimes committed today.

This book provides a lively and accessible account of Australia's most prominent crimes and criminals of the nineteenth and twentieth century and offers an informative background for those seeking to understand crimes committed today.

This volume is the first comprehensive study of the Polish history of law and Christianity written in English for a global audience.

This volume is the first comprehensive study of the Polish history of law and Christianity written in English for a global audience.

Bringing together a collection of essays by writers with diverse knowledge of the US criminal justice system, from those with personal experience in prison and on patrol to scholarly researchers, What Is a Criminal?

Bringing together a collection of essays by writers with diverse knowledge of the US criminal justice system, from those with personal experience in prison and on patrol to scholarly researchers, What Is a Criminal?

This book examines how Christian love can inform legal thought.

This book examines how Christian love can inform legal thought.

The Handbook of Constitutional Law in Greater China surveys important issues of constitutional law in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

The Handbook of Constitutional Law in Greater China surveys important issues of constitutional law in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the Norwegian Correctional Service and the values and principles underlying its operations, using the renowned Halden Prison as a case study.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the Norwegian Correctional Service and the values and principles underlying its operations, using the renowned Halden Prison as a case study.

Austerity has reconfigured and scaled back the governance and delivery of public services and negatively affected society's most vulnerable groups.

Austerity has reconfigured and scaled back the governance and delivery of public services and negatively affected society's most vulnerable groups.

Family Life, Family Law, and Family Justice: Tying the Knot combines history, social science, and legal analysis to chart the evolution and interdependence of family life and family law, portray current trends in family life, explain the pressing policy challenges these trends have produced, and analyze the changes in family law that are essential to meeting these challenges.

Family Life, Family Law, and Family Justice: Tying the Knot combines history, social science, and legal analysis to chart the evolution and interdependence of family life and family law, portray current trends in family life, explain the pressing policy challenges these trends have produced, and analyze the changes in family law that are essential to meeting these challenges.

This book is Volume IV in the Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales.

This book is Volume IV in the Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales.

This book examines the enslavement system in nineteenth-century Brazil, demonstrating the strategies that lawyers and plaintiffs used to fight for freedom in court.

This book examines the enslavement system in nineteenth-century Brazil, demonstrating the strategies that lawyers and plaintiffs used to fight for freedom in court.

International Relations and International Law continue to be accented by epistemic violence by naturalizing a separation between law and morality.

International Relations and International Law continue to be accented by epistemic violence by naturalizing a separation between law and morality.

Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime, Fourth Edition, is the only text to look at the array of mainstream and unconventional explanations for crime as they relate to racial and ethnic populations.

Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime, Fourth Edition, is the only text to look at the array of mainstream and unconventional explanations for crime as they relate to racial and ethnic populations.

This monograph makes a major new contribution to the historiography of criminal justice in England and Wales by focusing on the intersection of the history of law and crime with medical history.