Legal history books

"In recent years national news organizations carried lengthy stories about wrongdoing by judges in the United States....  Read More >>

Ulrich Eisenhardt wertet die Quellen zur Rechtsprechung der obersten Gerichte im Alten Reich zu den Gerichtsprivilegien...  Read More >>

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The English and Colonial Bars in the Nineteenth Century (1983) explores the impact of a changing society on the...  Read More >>

This fascinating volume offers a set of biographies of women and gender non-conforming people who made a difference...  Read More >>

This new edition of Abortion: The Supreme Court Decisions includes all of the major Supreme Court decisions on abortion...  Read More >>

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A History of Securities Law and the Supreme Court explores how the Supreme Court has made (and remade) securities...  Read More >>

Features contributions that respond to deep challenges to social cohesion from racial injustice In the latest installment...  Read More >>

This is the first English translation of one of the most important treatises written during the late-Middle Ages...  Read More >>

A detective story set against the backdrop of the volatile antebellum era, this gripping biography lays bare, in...  Read More >>

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George Craig was Sir Walter Scott's local banker, a writer, insurance agent, election agent and baron bailie of...  Read More >>

This is the only modern comprehensive constitutional history of any state, and as a history of Virgina, it is one...  Read More >>

Examines the formation, history, and transformation of the Islamic legal discourse and institutions through the...  Read More >>

Conceptualizing the nature of reality and the way the world functions, Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko analyzes the...  Read More >>

What is the history of prisons in America? Were they made for punishment or rehabilitation? What is the pardon and...  Read More >>

A former public defender testifies to the vivid human suffering at the heart of America’s criminal justice system....  Read More >>

A Bologna, tra il 1343 e il 1474, novantuno uomini sono accusati di aver abusato sessualmente di oltre centotrenta...  Read More >>

Dieses Buch prasentiert Forschungsergebnisse, die vielem widersprechen, was in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten zu Hugo...  Read More >>

Culture is the soil from which a legal system grows. In order to understand the US legal system and all of its substantive...  Read More >>

Is there a future for the law? In this book, Florian Grisel addresses one of the most fascinating questions raised...  Read More >>

For the Encouragement of Learning examines the historical origins of copyright law in Canada.  Read More >>

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