Legal history

Robert Palmers pathbreaking study shows how the Black Death triggered massive changes in both governance and law in fourteenth-century England, establishing the mechanisms by which the law adapted to social needs for centuries thereafter.

Offering a window into the history of the modern legal profession in Western Europe, Stephen Jacobson presents a history of lawyers in the most industrialized city on the Mediterranean.

Master and servant acts, the cornerstone of English employment law for more than four hundred years, gave largely unsupervised, inferior magistrates wide discretion over employment relations, including the power to whip, fine, and imprison men, women, and children for breach of private contracts with their employers.

The primary founder and guiding spirit of the Harvard Law School and the most prolific publicist of the nineteenth century, Story served as a member of the U.

This ambitious work uncovers the constitutional foundations of that most essential institution of modern democracy, the political party.

Based on a detailed examination of New York case law, this pathbreaking book shows how law, politics, and ideology in the state changed in tandem between 1920 and 1980.

Eileen Spring presents a fresh interpretation of the history of inheritance among the English gentry and aristocracy.

Presenting a new framework for understanding the complex but vital relationship between legal history and the family, Michael Grossberg analyzes the formation of legal policies on such issues as common law marriage, adoption, and rights for illegitimate children.

Investigating a wide range of problems in the development of English law, this collection of original essays honors the contributions of Samuel D.

James Donovan takes a comprehensive approach to the history of the jury in modern France by investigating the legal, political, sociocultural, and intellectual aspects of jury trial from the Revolution through the twentieth century.

In a world in which racism and xenophobia are endemic, what is the role of international law?

In a world in which racism and xenophobia are endemic, what is the role of international law?

A History of Securities Law and the Supreme Court explores how the Supreme Court has made (and remade) securities law.

A History of Securities Law and the Supreme Court explores how the Supreme Court has made (and remade) securities law.

Libel and Lampoon shows how English satire and the law mutually shaped each other during the long eighteenth century.

CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING AN ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF.

Akademische Arbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Jura - Medienrecht, Multimediarecht, Urheberrecht, Note: 1,0, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Um eine große Schranke der Meinungsfreiheit in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland soll es in dieser Hausarbeit gehen: den Straftatbestand der Volksverhetzung.

This book takes an unflinching look at the roles and functions played by the idea of universality in international legal discourses, as well as the narratives of progress that often accompany it.

This book takes an unflinching look at the roles and functions played by the idea of universality in international legal discourses, as well as the narratives of progress that often accompany it.

This book traces the life and legacy of a German Jewish lawyer, F A Mann, who moved to the UK in 1933 fleeing racial persecution from Germany, and later became one of the best-known legal minds of his age, equally versed and experienced in legal practice and legal scholarship.

This book traces the life and legacy of a German Jewish lawyer, F A Mann, who moved to the UK in 1933 fleeing racial persecution from Germany, and later became one of the best-known legal minds of his age, equally versed and experienced in legal practice and legal scholarship.

How did the division of power work in Ancient Greece?

How did the division of power work in Ancient Greece?

The commonly held view about English administrative law is that it is of recent origin, with some dating it from the mid-20th century and some venturing back to the late 19th century.

The commonly held view about English administrative law is that it is of recent origin, with some dating it from the mid-20th century and some venturing back to the late 19th century.

This comprehensive book examines the theoretical underpinnings of free speech and provides crucial insights into the contemporary resurgence of debates over its importance.

This comprehensive book examines the theoretical underpinnings of free speech and provides crucial insights into the contemporary resurgence of debates over its importance.

Document from the year 2024 in the subject Law - Philosophy, History and Sociology of Law, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Arts), course: African Political Philosophy, language: English, abstract: This book interrogates one of the major wrongs of the African Polity namely, the crisis of leadership recruitment.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2025 im Fachbereich Jura - Medienrecht, Multimediarecht, Urheberrecht, Note: 1,9, Universität Siegen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit untersucht die rechtlichen Grenzen der Schmähkritik (Sk) zwischen Meinungsfreiheit (Mf) und Persönlichkeitsrecht im digitalen Raum.

Customary international law remains a central source of international law and the core of the international legal system.

Customary international law remains a central source of international law and the core of the international legal system.

War is an engine of innovation.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program.

Laboratories of Terror explores the final chapter of Stalin's Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine.

Laboratories of Terror explores the final chapter of Stalin's Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine.

Reparations for Slavery in International Law examines the case for contemporary redress for the harms and legacies of transatlantic enslavement from a legal perspective.

Reparations for Slavery in International Law examines the case for contemporary redress for the harms and legacies of transatlantic enslavement from a legal perspective.

After being almost untouched for over 200 years, the contract law section of the French Civil Code was overhauled in 2016 and 2018.

After being almost untouched for over 200 years, the contract law section of the French Civil Code was overhauled in 2016 and 2018.

Means provides the first major study of both the historical development of private law in a Latin American country and the shifting role of business corporations or share companies in Latin American development.

In this first comprehensive study of womens property rights in early America, Marylynn Salmon discusses the effect of formal rules of law on womens lives.