Legal history books

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Gierke [1841-1921] was one of the most influential legal scholars of the 19th and 20th centuries. As a jurist, he...  Read More >>

Drawing on original French, German, and English publications, Crime and Civilization explores the rise of data-based...  Read More >>

Examines the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Acts and their use by married women to reclaim voting rights and rights...  Read More >>

This book introduces non-specialist readers to the history of how human societies have sought to control, use and...  Read More >>

This is the fifth and final volume in the Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales. It covers the...  Read More >>

Exploring the vast landscape of moral philosophy, ethical dilemmas, and justice in legal systems, this comprehensive...  Read More >>

To what extent can an animal constitute a ‘juridical species’? This highly original book considers how animals have...  Read More >>

Nach der Epochenwende von 1918/1919 setzte in den neuen Staaten Mittelosteuropas eine Kodifikationswelle im Bereich...  Read More >>

The Politics of Co-Opposition reveals how a completely new form of political engagement in the British Isles - the...  Read More >>

The book delves into colonial South Asia's legal transformation under the rule of the British Crown, examining shifts...  Read More >>

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Die Diversität des frühneuzeitlichen Eherechts erweiterte die Spielräume für die Aushandlung sozialen Friedens....  Read More >>

A detailed and compelling examination of how the legal theory of originalism ignores and distorts the very constitutional...  Read More >>

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This book interprets the life and teachings of Saint Antoninus, an important Catholic saint and fifteenth-century...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1959, this book critically examines, in the light of numerous research, both the relation...  Read More >>

Over the past two centuries, some of Scotland's most notorious and noteworthy murder cases from across Perthshire,...  Read More >>

The Rhodes blood libel of 1840, an outbreak of anti-Jewish violence, was initiated by the island’s governor in collusion...  Read More >>

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A look at how written law privileged and legitimised private white interracial violence.  Read More >>

Brings together experts in Norwegian and Scottish legal, economic and political history to explore significant points...  Read More >>

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