Legal history

This book explores the form, function and meaning of crime and execution broadsides printed in nineteenth-century Britain.

This is the first book on Royal Wills since 1780 and aims to take over where the previous ones (in 1775 and 1780) left off.

Die Rede von einer "Herrschaft der Richter" ist nicht bloß eine polemische Spitze gegen Gerichtsentscheidungen.

A Companion to American Legal History presents a compilation of the most recent writings from leading scholars on American legal history from the colonial era through the late twentieth century.

A Companion to American Legal History presents a compilation of the most recent writings from leading scholars on American legal history from the colonial era through the late twentieth century.

Malcolm Feeley''s classic scholarship on courts, criminal justice, legal reform, and the legal complex, examined by law and society scholars.

Identifying for the first time the true nature of maintenance, this study uses primary sources to reach new findings on its lawfulness.

Identifying for the first time the true nature of maintenance, this study uses primary sources to reach new findings on its lawfulness.

Draws on archival research to tell the story of the nineteenth and twentieth-century development of commercial law through practice.

Looks at international negotiation from a novel, relational international law perspective and challenges prescriptive models.

World War I and the American Constitution analyzes how the First World War transformed American constitutional law.

World War I and the American Constitution analyzes how the First World War transformed American constitutional law.

Equality and Discrimination Law in Australia: An Introduction adopts a groundbreaking approach in its delivery of key principles.

Equality and Discrimination Law in Australia: An Introduction adopts a groundbreaking approach in its delivery of key principles.

A critical catalogue of how lawyers use history - as authority, as evocation of lost golden ages, as a nightmare to escape and as progress towards enlightenment.

A critical catalogue of how lawyers use history - as authority, as evocation of lost golden ages, as a nightmare to escape and as progress towards enlightenment.

This book examines the lessons learned from twenty-five years of using DNA to free innocent prisoners and identifies lingering challenges.

This book examines the lessons learned from twenty-five years of using DNA to free innocent prisoners and identifies lingering challenges.

Great Christian Jurists in English History comprises biographical portraits of leading jurists and judges assessing the influence of their Christianity.

Great Christian Jurists in English History comprises biographical portraits of leading jurists and judges assessing the influence of their Christianity.

The Care of the Witness explores the historical shifts in the crises of witnessing to genocide, war, and disaster and their contribution to nongovernmental politics.

This book presents an empirically rigorous and theoretically sophisticated account of political trials.

This book explores diplomacy and ritual practice at a moment of new departures and change in both early modern Europe and Russia.

The Care of the Witness explores the historical shifts in the crises of witnessing to genocide, war, and disaster and their contribution to nongovernmental politics.

This book explores diplomacy and ritual practice at a moment of new departures and change in both early modern Europe and Russia.

The volume revisits memory laws as a phenomenon of global law, transitional justice, historical narratives and claims for historical truth

The volume revisits memory laws as a phenomenon of global law, transitional justice, historical narratives and claims for historical truth

A comparative and historical account of the origins and meanings of the discourse of judicial ''balancing'' in constitutional rights law.

A comparative and historical account of the origins and meanings of the discourse of judicial ''balancing'' in constitutional rights law.

Leading historians of English law examine the relationship between substantive law and legal process from medieval to modern times.

This book is the first book to look closely and critically at the history of images of law.

Leading historians of English law examine the relationship between substantive law and legal process from medieval to modern times.

This book is the first book to look closely and critically at the history of images of law.

A biography of Thomas Scrutton, who has been described as ''the greatest English-speaking commercial judge of a century''.

A biography of Thomas Scrutton, who has been described as ''the greatest English-speaking commercial judge of a century''.

A study of how the development of representative politics in late-colonial India transformed notions of family, gender and religious community.

'A book about a strange form of pop art where the criminal and the celebrity meet'Jeremy Deller'I've been waiting for a book like this for years, and this is the best I could have hoped for.

In 38 Londres Street, Philippe Sands blends personal memoir, historical detective work and gripping courtroom drama to probe a secret double story of mass murder, one that reveals a shocking thread that links the horrors of the 1940s with those of our own times.

Gamboa's World examines the changing legal landscape of eighteenth-century Mexico through the lens of the jurist Francisco Xavier de Gamboa (17171794).

Some half million Chinese immigrants settled in the American West in the nineteenth century.

Although Mexico's Constitution of 1917 mandated the division of large landholdings, provided land for the landless, and guaranteed workers the rights to organize, strike, and bargain collectively, it also guaranteed fundamental liberal rights to property and due process that enabled property owners and employers to resist the implementation of the new social rights by filing suit in federal court.

That Every Man Be Armed, the first scholarly book on the Second Amendment to the U.

For more than century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and seeking work.

From the perspective of young lawyers in three key New Deal agencies, this book traces the path of crucial constitutional test cases during the years from 1933 to 1937.

A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgmentWhen buildings are deemed ugly, what are the consequences?

A major study of landholding in medieval England based on original sources with an extensive index.

Steinberg''s field-defining work shows how Boccaccio''s Decameron reveals unexpected connections between the contemporary emergence of literary realism and legal inquisition in early modern Europe.

For more than century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and seeking work.

The 1930s was a decade that provided impressive breakthroughs in the field of forensic ballistics, or firearms identification.

The definitive story of a South Carolina newspaper editor's murder at the hands of a 1902 gubernatorial candidate, and the dramatic trial that ensued.