Legal history books

This new translation offers fidelity to the Latin in a readable version that will prove useful to students of the...  Read More >>

The final volume of the Osgoode Society's Canadian State Trials series sheds light on the legal issues surrounding...  Read More >>

This book traces the dissolution of the household and the construction of the family in English law and legal thought...  Read More >>

This is the first extensive treatment of leading judicial institutions under Nazi rule in WWII. It focusses on all...  Read More >>

Constitutions are a product of history, but what is the role of history in interpreting and applying constitutional...  Read More >>

Studies of Bactrian Legal Documents deals with the legal practice in Greater Khorasan between the 4th and 8th centuries...  Read More >>

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Konstantinos Kapparis challenges the traditional view that free women, citizen and metic, were excluded from the...  Read More >>

Focusing deliberately on the impact of law courts on substantive law and not on its systematisation by learned...  Read More >>

This volume contains 25 chapters on the history of arbitration and its continuing relevance  Read More >>

"Die jahrlich im Umfang von etwa 350 Seiten erscheinende Zeitschrift fur altorientalische und biblische Rechtsgeschichte...  Read More >>

Die Peira ist das einzige byzantinische Rechtsbuch, welches uns Informationen über die Praxis des kaiserlichen Gerichts...  Read More >>

Revisits two seminal human rights cases in the United States under the Alien Tort Statute, Filartiga and Marcos,...  Read More >>

Using Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary as a case study, The Deviant Prison supplements the dominant narrative...  Read More >>

This book sheds new light on the ongoing fight to end prostitution through a historical study of its emotional communities....  Read More >>

Ada Maria Kuskowski traces the impact of writing, language, learned ideas and court practices on the development...  Read More >>

Der Band versammelt Beitrage zu den sechs fruhen juristischen Max-Planck-Instituten und der Herausbildung eines...  Read More >>

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Drawing on interviews with Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself and those who knew her, as well as extensive knowledge of...  Read More >>

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Focusing on Albert Sanguinetti from his early life to his retirement from the legal sector, including his tenures...  Read More >>

When Christopher Columbus (circa 1451-1506) arrived at the Bahamas in 1492, it could hardly be predicted that this...  Read More >>

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This book focuses, from a legal perspective, on a series of events which make up some of the principal episodes...  Read More >>

Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, historian Luca Falciola challenges the reader to think anew...  Read More >>