Legal history books

Robert Travers explores the Mughal and Persianate context for colonial state-formation in eighteenth century Bengal....  Read More >>

Das Buch behandelt Leben und Werk des österreichischen Rechtswissenschaftlers Josef Hupka, der bis zu seiner Vertreibung...  Read More >>

A long-overdue exposé of the astonishing yet shadowy power wielded by the world’s largest law firms. Though not...  Read More >>

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This handbook offers a collection of scholarly essays that analyze questions of reproductive justice throughout...  Read More >>

Now in its second edition, Stories of True Crime in Tudor and Stuart England has been updated to include more texts...  Read More >>

The expression “transitional justice” emerged at the end of the Cold War, during the transition from dictatorships...  Read More >>

This book tells the untold story of the Married Women’s Association. Unlike more conventional histories of family...  Read More >>

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The essays in the research section of Rg 30 present a fundamental research project on the history of conflict regulation...  Read More >>

A ground breaking exploration of sexual violence by one of our...  Read More >>

Using India as a case study, Joseph McQuade traces the genealogy of the political and legal category of terrorism....  Read More >>

In the past decades the coordination of social security provisions of the European Union have become of vital importance....  Read More >>

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The Science of Proof traces the rise of forensic medicine in modern France and examines its implications for our...  Read More >>

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Over the course of its history, the US Supreme Court has emerged as the most powerful judiciary unit the world has...  Read More >>

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This book explores how the fathers of humanist jurisprudence contributed to the emergence of ius gentium as the...  Read More >>

Imbalances in contractual exchange relationships are a phenomenon that every civil law system has to deal with:...  Read More >>

This book offers new international perspectives on captivity in wartime during the twentieth century. This edited...  Read More >>

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A ground-breaking study of the lawbooks which were created in the changing social and political climate of post-conquest...  Read More >>

National Bestseller ""A powerful and important picture of how mega law firms distort justice.""--David Cay Johnston,...  Read More >>