Legal history books

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Priests of the Law: Roman Law and the Making of the Common Law's First Professionals

Priests of the Law: Roman Law and the Making of the...

Author: Professor of Law Thomas J McSweeney (William & Mary Law School)
ISBN: 9780191880643
Format: Undefined
$237.60

Priests of the Law tells the story of the first people in the history of the common law to think of themselves as...  Read More >>

Criminal Bodies in the West: Iconography and Life after Death

Criminal Bodies in the West: Iconography and Life after...

Author: Melissa Schrift
ISBN: 9780367334277
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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La Giustizia Di Traiano. Presunzione d'Innocenza Equita E Deterrenza Della Pena

La Giustizia Di Traiano. Presunzione d'Innocenza Equita...

Author: Felice Costabile ,  Giovanna Coppola Bisazza
ISBN: 9788891319258
Format: Paperback
$137.28

I due saggi di Giovanna Coppola Bisazza e Felice Costabile qui raccolti sono estratti dal volume di Minima Epigraphica...  Read More >>

Human v. Religious Rights?: German and U.S. Exchanges and their Global Implications

Human v. Religious Rights?: German and U.S. Exchanges...

Author: A.G. Roeber
ISBN: 9783525301999
Format: Hardback
$147.46

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Murder, Rape, and Treason: Judicial Combats in the Late Middle Ages

Murder, Rape, and Treason: Judicial Combats in the Late...

Author: Steven Muhlberger ,  Will McLean
ISBN: 9781937439415
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Murder, Rape and Treason: Judicial Combats in the Late Middle Ages contains accounts of some of the most sanguine,...  Read More >>

Justice in Transactions: A Theory of Contract Law

Justice in Transactions: A Theory of Contract Law

Author: Peter Benson
ISBN: 9780674237599
Format: Hardback
$248.16

Legal thinkers typically justify contract law on the basis of economics or promissory morality. But Peter Benson...  Read More >>

Actio de Dolo: Arglistklage Im Romischen Recht

Actio de Dolo: Arglistklage Im Romischen Recht

Author: Jan Dirk Harke
ISBN: 9783428159116
Format: Paperback
$269.28

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The Hibernensis, Volume 2: Translation, Commentary and Indexes

The Hibernensis, Volume 2: Translation, Commentary and...

Author: Roy Flechner
ISBN: 9780813232218
Format: Paperback
$80.30

The Hibernensis is the longest and most comprehensive canon-law text to have circulated in Carolingian Europe. This...  Read More >>

The Hibernensis, Volume 1: A Study and Edition

The Hibernensis, Volume 1: A Study and Edition

Author: Roy Flechner
ISBN: 9780813231938
Format: Hardback
$151.80

The Hibernensis is the longest and most comprehensive canon-law text to have circulated in Carolingian Europe. This...  Read More >>

Roman Law in the State of Nature: The Classical Foundations of Hugo Grotius' Natural Law

Roman Law in the State of Nature: The Classical Foundations...

Author: Benjamin Straumann (New York University)
ISBN: 9781107470163
Format: Paperback
$67.27

This comprehensive analysis of the foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural law theory assesses for the first time the...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Law

The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Law

Author: Pamela Barmash (Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Biblical Hebrew, Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Biblical Hebrew, Washington University in St. Louis)
ISBN: 9780199392667
Format: Hardback
$314.00

Major innovations have occurred in the study of biblical law in recent decades. The legal material of the Pentateuch...  Read More >>

Law, Science, Rationality

Law, Science, Rationality

Author: Antonia Waltermann ,  David Roef
ISBN: 9789462369894
Format: Paperback
$314.13

The edited volume brings together scholars in the field of law and the cognitive sciences, in particular law and...  Read More >>

The Lives of the Constitution: Ten Exceptional Minds that Shaped America's Supreme Law

The Lives of the Constitution: Ten Exceptional Minds...

Author: Joseph Tartakovsky
ISBN: 9781641770620
Format: Paperback
$29.99

In a fascinating blend of biography and history, Joseph Tartakovsky tells the epic and unexpected story of our Constitution...  Read More >>

Priests of the Law: Roman Law and the Making of the Common Law's First Professionals

Priests of the Law: Roman Law and the Making of the...

Author: Thomas J. McSweeney (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School)
ISBN: 9780198845454
Format: Hardback
$218.00

This book examines the development of legal professionalism in the early English common law, with specific reference...  Read More >>

Crime, Gender and Social Control in Early Modern Frankfurt am Main

Crime, Gender and Social Control in Early Modern Frankfurt...

Author: Jeannette Kamp
ISBN: 9789004388437
Format: Hardback
$440.88

This book charts the gender differences in crime in early modern Frankfurt. It shows that women’s prosecuted crime...  Read More >>

The 1713 Peace of Utrecht and its Enduring Effects

The 1713 Peace of Utrecht and its Enduring Effects

Author: Alfred H.A. Soons
ISBN: 9789004266407
Format: Hardback
$609.84

“The 1713 Peace of Utrecht and its Enduring Effects,” edited by Alfred H.A. Soons, presents an interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

Homicide Justified: The Legality of Killing Slaves in the United States and the Atlantic World

Homicide Justified: The Legality of Killing Slaves in...

Author: Andrew T. Fede ,  Paul Finkelman
ISBN: 9780820356815
Format: Paperback
$86.99

This comparative study looks at the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws...  Read More >>

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