Legal history books

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Now in its fourth edition and completely updated, this is the most comprehensive book on constitutional amendments...  Read More >>

Linda Hirshman, author of the acclaimed Victory, tells the fascinating story of the decades-long friendship of Sandra...  Read More >>

Explores a little-known story of a young boy's fate in the juvenile justice system during the bloodiest years in...  Read More >>

Penal Power and the Colonial Rule argues that Foucault’s alignment of sovereign, disciplinary and governmental power...  Read More >>

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This translation of Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates was first published in 1712, and is here printed from the...  Read More >>

The Collected Documents of The Group of 77 provides a chronological record of events and documents of the Group...  Read More >>

This is a copy of the famous code of laws implemented by the ancient Babylonian ruler Hammurabi, one of the most...  Read More >>

This volume of essays by leading legal historians addresses the history of judges and judging, with comparisons...  Read More >>

Janet McLean explores how the common law has personified the state and how those personifications affect and reflect...  Read More >>

This work reviews the progress of children’s rights 25 years since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights...  Read More >>

In this electrifying piece of historical detective work, a Washington Post reporter re-creates the bloody days...  Read More >>

In this newly revised work, Lawrence Friedman presents a comprehensive and accessible survey of New Hampshire constitutional...  Read More >>

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Scholars of Jewish, European, and Israeli history as well as readers interested in issues of legal and social justice...  Read More >>

Using the innovative methods of the New Louisiana Legal History, Mark Fernandez offers the first comprehensive analysis...  Read More >>

In the nineteenth century, a woman who could prove a man had broken his promise to marry her was legally entitled...  Read More >>

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"xv, 302 pp. Originally published: Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1946. Compiled and edited by A.L. Goodhart and...  Read More >>

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Die deutsche Justiz hat über vier Jahrzehnte bis in die jüngste Vergangenheit Strafverfahren gegen Personen geführt,...  Read More >>

"""Ordnung und Protest"" beleuchtet ausgewählte Aspekte der gesamtdeutschen Protestgeschichte aus interdisziplinärer...  Read More >>

"xv, 302 pp. Originally published: Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1946. Compiled and edited by A.L. Goodhart and...  Read More >>