Legal history books

Outside In spans established categories of legal and historical writing. It is a legal history, an autobiographical...  Read More >>

The King's Felons examines the subtle development of criminal confinement as an alternative to capital punishment...  Read More >>

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Death in Old Mexico details Mexico's 'crime of the century' - a botched home invasion and the brutal murder of eleven...  Read More >>

The book shows lines of development in Roman law relating to the legal institution of conditional donation, which...  Read More >>

We, the King reveals how ordinary subjects aided and abetted law-making in the Spanish Empire, demonstrating how...  Read More >>

This book will provide an accessible introduction to the important role of race and racism in international law,...  Read More >>

Death in Old Mexico details Mexico's 'crime of the century' - a botched home invasion and the brutal murder of eleven...  Read More >>

Since December 1970, judges have been able to give dissenting opinions on decisions made by the Senate of the German...  Read More >>

A challenge to the ""end of the shari'a"" thesis in Islamic legal historiography In the second half of the nineteenth...  Read More >>

What exactly was privateering? How did it differ from other forms of maritime raiding? These questions are answered...  Read More >>

Thought to be the earliest code of laws until the translation of the fragmentary Babylonian Code of Ur-Nammu in...  Read More >>

A first-hand narrative exploring the arraignment of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, offering never before released...  Read More >>

This book restores to view a masterpiece of beauty and legal scholarship, which has been lost for almost two hundred...  Read More >>

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Magna Carta is among the most famous documents in the history of the world, credited with being the first effective...  Read More >>

Das Handbuch des Römischen Privatrechts gilt dem römischen Privat- und Zivilprozessrecht von den ältesten römischen...  Read More >>

Die Arbeit untersucht die Entstehung und Entwicklung der angloamerikanischen bankruptcy discharge ab dem frühen...  Read More >>

Examines the lives of North Carolina chief justice Richmond Pearson (1805-1878) and South Carolina chief justice...  Read More >>

Lord Denning was the most famous English judge of the twentieth century. Arguably, he was the most famous of any...  Read More >>

Die Autoren legen eine neue Ausgabe aller Fragmente der Gesetze Drakons und Solons mit griechischem bzw. lateinischem...  Read More >>

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More has been said about the Hart-Fuller debate than can be considered healthy or productive even within the precious...  Read More >>

A deeply researched legal drama that documents this landmark First Amendment ruling—one that is more critical and...  Read More >>