Legal history books

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The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution

The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution...

Author: Michael J. Klarman (Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, Harvard Law School)
ISBN: 9780199942039
Format: Hardback
$64.95

Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting...  Read More >>

The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication

The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial...

Author: Kaius Tuori (Academy of Finland Research Fellow and University Lecturer, Academy of Finland Research Fellow and University Lecturer, Network for European Studies, University of Helsinki)
ISBN: 9780198744450
Format: Hardback
$324.00

The Emperor of Law explores how the Roman emperor came to assume the mantle of supreme legal authority in the Empire....  Read More >>

Die Causa Blinkfueer und die Grundrechtsdogmatik zur Pressefreiheit in Weimar und Bonn

Die Causa Blinkfueer und die Grundrechtsdogmatik zur...

Author: Lena Darabeygi
ISBN: 9783631714522
Format: Hardback
$146.97

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The Law of Nations and Britain’s Quest for Naval Security: International Law and Arms Control, 1898–1914

The Law of Nations and Britain’s Quest for Naval Security:...

Author: Scott Andrew Keefer
ISBN: 9783319396446
Format: Hardback
$145.17

As the centenary of the Treaty of Versailles approaches, this book presents the pre-1914 precursors to the interwar...  Read More >>

Texts and Contexts in Legal History: Essays in Honor of Charles Donahue

Texts and Contexts in Legal History: Essays in Honor...

Author: John Witte, Jr ,  Associate Professor Sara McDougall (John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center)
ISBN: 9781882239245
Format: Hardback
$105.60

Volume celebrating Charles Donahue's work as a legal historian.  Read More >>

Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700: Micro-Studies in the History of Crime

Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700: Micro-Studies in...

Author: Professor David Nash (Department of History, Oxford Brookes University, UK) ,  Anne-Marie Kilday (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
ISBN: 9781472585288
Format: Paperback
$54.99

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017 Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700 explores the potential for the ‘micro-study’...  Read More >>

Whores and Highwaymen: Crime and Justice in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis

Whores and Highwaymen: Crime and Justice in the Eighteenth-Century...

Author: Gregory J Durston
ISBN: 9781909976399
Format: Paperback
$90.56

This comprehensive work on the development of summary jurisdiction, early policing and the emergence of London's...  Read More >>

China's Drug Practices and Policies: Regulating Controlled Substances in a Global Context

China's Drug Practices and Policies: Regulating Controlled...

Author: Hong Lu ,  Terance D. Miethe
ISBN: 9781138278523
Format: Paperback
$118.00

Presents a comprehensive documentation and analysis of the nature of China's legal regulation of controlled substances....  Read More >>

Coercion and Responsibility in Islam: A Study in Ethics and Law

Coercion and Responsibility in Islam: A Study in Ethics...

Author: Mairaj U. Syed (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis)
ISBN: 9780198788775
Format: Hardback
$242.00

An examination of how Muslim scholars from four schools of law and theology debate the ethical issues that coercion...  Read More >>

Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700: Micro-Studies in the History of Crime

Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700: Micro-Studies in...

Author: Professor David Nash (Department of History, Oxford Brookes University, UK) ,  Anne-Marie Kilday (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
ISBN: 9781472585271
Format: Hardback
$240.00

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017 Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700 explores the potential for the ‘micro-study’...  Read More >>

Governing through Crime in South Africa: The Politics of Race and Class in Neoliberalizing Regimes

Governing through Crime in South Africa: The Politics...

Author: Gail Super
ISBN: 9781138266964
Format: Paperback
$110.00

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Inheritance Law and Political Theology in Shakespeare and Milton: Election and Grace as Constitutional in Early Modern Literature and Beyond

Inheritance Law and Political Theology in Shakespeare...

Author: Joseph S. Jenkins
ISBN: 9781138267138
Format: Paperback
$112.00

Reading God's will and a man's Last Will as ideas that reinforce one another, this study shows the relevance of...  Read More >>

The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature: Estate, Blood, and Body

The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature:...

Author: Cheryl L. Nixon
ISBN: 9781138261846
Format: Paperback
$112.00

Examining novels by authors such as Eliza Haywood, Tobias Smollett, and Elizabeth Inchbald, and referencing case...  Read More >>

Tax Law and Racial Economic Justice: Black Tax

Tax Law and Racial Economic Justice: Black Tax

Author: Andre L. Smith
ISBN: 9781498503679
Format: Paperback
$119.00

This book explores how taxation creates and maintains racial inequalities in the United States. It demonstrates...  Read More >>

Thieves in Court: The Making of the German Legal System in the Nineteenth Century

Thieves in Court: The Making of the German Legal System...

Author: Rebekka Habermas (Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany) ,  Kathleen Mitchell Dell'Orto
ISBN: 9781107046771
Format: Hardback
$271.69

Ideal for legal historians and scholars interested in the evolution of legal systems, Habermas offers a fresh look...  Read More >>

Plessy: A shoemaker makes his mark

Plessy: A shoemaker makes his mark

Author: Allison B Matulli
ISBN: 9781536878585
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Stop, before you read on. Watch this video with a child you love to get an inside glimpse of Plessy: https: //youtu.be/Vq_P94bhu48...  Read More >>

Law, Sensibility and the Sublime in Eighteenth-Century Women's Fiction: Speaking of Dread

Law, Sensibility and the Sublime in Eighteenth-Century...

Author: Sue Chaplin
ISBN: 9781138264212
Format: Paperback
$112.00

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Comparative Legal Linguistics: Language of Law, Latin and Modern Lingua Francas

Comparative Legal Linguistics: Language of Law, Latin...

Author: Heikki E.S. Mattila
ISBN: 9781138255593
Format: Paperback
$118.00

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Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-Century Britain...

Author: Jack Lynch
ISBN: 9781138261945
Format: Paperback
$120.00

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The Culture of Equity in Early Modern England

The Culture of Equity in Early Modern England

Author: Mark Fortier
ISBN: 9781138257269
Format: Paperback
$112.00

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