Legal history books

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This book tells the story of John Cartwright, a now-retired Queen's Council barrister, who spent his career in search...  Read More >>

This book provides an introduction to human rights controversies in twentieth-century France, from the Dreyfus Affair...  Read More >>

This Palgrave Pivot examines the history of the largely urban offence once known as vitriol throwing because the...  Read More >>

In Theologians and Contract Law, Wim Decock offers an account of the moral roots of modern contract law. He explains...  Read More >>

This in turn makes it possible (1) to distinguish between real moral human rights and spurious ones, (2) to assess...  Read More >>

The ordoliberal school of competition thought is a distinct linguistic community whose conceptual and semantic influence...  Read More >>

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In marked contrast to what has hitherto been thought the 432 titles of Digest are not an amorphous heap of quotations...  Read More >>

"""La Cité Antique"" est une oeuvre majeure de l'historien français Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges. Voici une synthèse...  Read More >>

For many years, Britain tried to impose its own laws on the peoples it conquered, and English common law usually...  Read More >>

In this collected volume, Aharon Layish demonstrates that legal documents are an essential source for legal and...  Read More >>

An important case study in the history of law under colonialism, Colonial Law Making explores the structural forces...  Read More >>

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Dismembering and remembering the sensual and spiritual body of Lady Justice in this wholly novel interpretation...  Read More >>

Explores the remarkable and complex legal history of how the right to bear arms was widely accepted during the US’s...  Read More >>

Addresses two constitutional issues: first, whether the states in 1860 had a right to secede from the Union and...  Read More >>

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This inter-disciplinary work re-examines the role that criminal accusation plays in the creation and maintenance...  Read More >>

Was there international law in the Middle Ages? This book examines the extent to which such a system of rules was...  Read More >>

This book seeks to trace the notarial history of China from 1902 to 1979. While working on this trailblazing effort,...  Read More >>

Analysing the influence of past dissents on later Supreme Court majority opinions, this book presents the first...  Read More >>

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Illuminating their breadth and diversity, this book presents a comprehensive and multidisciplinary view of legal...  Read More >>