Legal history books

This volume aims at a reflection on the task, meaning and methodology of constitutional history as a legal discipline...  Read More >>

Building on socio-legal studies, anthropology, and performance studies, this book challenges depictions of law as...  Read More >>

With extradition a major political issue today, this examination of the legal case of Ho Chi Minh in colonial Hong...  Read More >>

These are papers from the 10th Cambridge Tax Law History Conference, which took place in July 2020. The papers fall...  Read More >>

This book examines how the international tax architecture came to be ruled by Western developed countries. It uncovers...  Read More >>

This volume provides the first in-depth intellectual history of the contractual thought of Viscount Stair, a pivotal...  Read More >>

From the Alien Friends Act to the Cold War and the War on Terror, the US has used ideological exclusions and deportations...  Read More >>

"Inside a drug war so screwy that people don't know what's illegal--until it's too late. Bizarro is a page-turning...  Read More >>

Zu erwahnen, dass nicht nur Bucher, sondern auch Redensarten ihr Schicksal haben, ware eine Banalitat, wenn man...  Read More >>

In Rechtsromanistik und Latinistik haben Methodik, Rhetorik und Topik Konjunktur. Erstaunlicherweise gibt es keine...  Read More >>

The first English translation of four key texts from the dispute between Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda and Bartolomé de...  Read More >>

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This study includes James Wilson’s intellectual, political, and legal contributions in American history. The author...  Read More >>

This book offers an English translation, a working Latin text, and an up-do-date historical and historiographical...  Read More >>

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Le monde est en constante évolution, et cette évolution rapide à un impact direct sur la protection des droits de...  Read More >>

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The creation of 39 Mixed Arbitral Tribunals ('MATs') was a major contribution of the post-World War I peace treaties...  Read More >>

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Das Werk widmet sich einem Kernereignis innerhalb der schweizerischen Kodifikationsgeschichte. Es behandelt die...  Read More >>

Die Beziehungen zwischen Verfassungsordnungen und Krieg sind eine historische Konstante. Die phanomenologische Vielfalt...  Read More >>

Ausgehend von der gewachsenen politischen Bedeutung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts seit seiner Grundung im Jahre...  Read More >>

Employing an inter-disciplinary approach, this book develops a theory of the modern state based on the concept of...  Read More >>