Legal history

Focusing on South Africa from 1650–2000, Meierhenrich examines how law structures democracy in changing societies.

A comparative study of legal writing revealing the uniqueness of Greek law.

This book offers insights on how the framers and ratifiers of the Constitution were influenced by classical political theory and ancient history.

Marriage litigation in York, Ely, Paris, Cambrai, and Brussels during the medieval period.

Allison employs an historical constitutional approach to assess doctrines and institutions in English constitutional law.

This volume offers a substantial discussion of ancient monarchies from the viewpoint of the ruler''s court.

An examination of the history of crime and criminal justice in late medieval Italy.

A study of law and early modern English literature.

This book looks at the Soviet style of law that was adopted slowly in the West during the twentieth century.

This 2007 volume analyzes how, why, and when pre-modern Europeans documented their marriages.

This 2007 book is a comprehensive elucidation of the legal historical foundations of a major contemporary public institution, the statutory tribunal.

This 2007 text charts the history of the shifting relations between law and literature, from the Renaissance to contemporary culture.

Tracing the history of growth and then the slow disappearance of English law and social regulation.

This 2006 book traces the development of the income tax and its precursors in Britain and its former colonies to 1820.

A study of literary fellowship and clubbing that includes John Donne, Ben Jonson and Thomas Coryate.

Study of the making of law in England in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

An in-depth 2006 study of the careers and roles of judges in France, Germany, Spain, Sweden and England.

This book describes how the international spread of antitrust suggested the historical process shaping global capitalism.

This 2006 book offers an interpretation of the constitutional law and politics of slavery.

An analysis of peace treaty practice from the late fifteenth century to the Peace of Versailles of 1919.

Presents a sustained argument for a broad inter-disciplinary approach to evidence in litigation.

This book explains the adoption of the US Constitution in terms of what the proponents were trying to accomplish.

This book challenges accounts about the development and operation of the common law.

Legal analysis, historical and political critique of the rise and fall of modern international law.

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

This book explores the complicated relationship between constitutions and transitional justice.

This book explores the complicated relationship between constitutions and transitional justice.

The Revolt of Snowballs unpicks a rare and turbulent event which occurred in 1511 and investigates the meaning behind it.

The Revolt of Snowballs unpicks a rare and turbulent event which occurred in 1511 and investigates the meaning behind it.

This four volume collection looks at the essential issues concerning crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century.

This four volume collection looks at the essential issues concerning crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century.

This four volume collection looks at the essential issues concerning crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century.

This four volume collection looks at the essential issues concerning crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century.

This four volume collection looks at the essential issues concerning crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century.

This four volume collection looks at the essential issues concerning crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century.

This four volume collection looks at the essential issues concerning crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century.

This four volume collection looks at the essential issues concerning crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century.

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The rule of law, or Rechtsstaatsprinzip, is one of Germany's oldest constitutional principles and forms part of Germany's constitutional self-understanding.

Volume I of The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales frames what was known about crime and criminal justice in the 1960s, before describing the liberalising legislation of the decade.

Volume I of The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales frames what was known about crime and criminal justice in the 1960s, before describing the liberalising legislation of the decade.

Volume II of The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales traces, for the first time, the genesis and early evolution of two principal institutions in the criminal justice system, the Crown Court and the Crown Prosecution Service.

Volume II of The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales traces, for the first time, the genesis and early evolution of two principal institutions in the criminal justice system, the Crown Court and the Crown Prosecution Service.

This book offers an up-to-date, comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis of the multifaceted and evolving experiences of human rights in Sierra Leone between the years 1787 and 2016.

This book offers an up-to-date, comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis of the multifaceted and evolving experiences of human rights in Sierra Leone between the years 1787 and 2016.

Child Sexual Abuse Reported by Adult Survivors is a wide-ranging and timely critical history and analysis of legal responses to 'historical' or 'non-recent' child sexual abuse (NRCSA) in England and Wales, Ireland and Australia, each of which represents an evolving and progressive approach to this important and complex issue.

Child Sexual Abuse Reported by Adult Survivors is a wide-ranging and timely critical history and analysis of legal responses to 'historical' or 'non-recent' child sexual abuse (NRCSA) in England and Wales, Ireland and Australia, each of which represents an evolving and progressive approach to this important and complex issue.

In this book, Catherine Frost uses evidence and case studies to offer a re-examination of declarations of independence and the language that comprises such documents.

In this book, Catherine Frost uses evidence and case studies to offer a re-examination of declarations of independence and the language that comprises such documents.

Consent is used in many different social and legal contexts with the pervasiveunderstanding that it is, and has always been, about autonomy - but has it?