Legal history books

This present book examines some of the key features of the interplay between legal history, authoritarian rule and...  Read More >>

Die Arbeit widmet sich dem Strafrechtler Friedrich Schaffstein, der uber den Grossteil des 20. Jahrhunderts das...  Read More >>

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow-era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring...  Read More >>

A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow-era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring...  Read More >>

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Exploring encounters of laws, people and place in Australia since 1788, this ground-breaking volume traces the development...  Read More >>

Years before Hitler unleashed the “Final Solution” to annihilate European Jews, he began a lesser-known campaign...  Read More >>

This book revisits six notorious incidents that occasioned vigorous debate in London's courtrooms, streets and presses....  Read More >>

By applying the techniques of linguistic anthropology to the pre-history of medicine, anatomical knowledge, and...  Read More >>

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The rural county of Poyang, lying in northern Jiangxi Province, goes largely unmentioned in the annals of modern...  Read More >>

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

La Cité antique est le plus célèbre ouvrage de l'historien français Fustel de Coulanges, publié en 1864. Utilisant...  Read More >>

This history of English commercial law draws on archival research. It gives the lawyer and law student background...  Read More >>

This book will appeal to lawyers, legal historians, politicians, historians of legal thought, legal philosophers,...  Read More >>

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This book frames British Romanticism as the artistic counterpart to a revolution in subjectivity occasioned by the...  Read More >>

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Wandlungen des Urheberrechts im Brennpunkt der Geschichte  Read More >>

"""Cloak and Gavel"" . . . is the product of an eight-year struggle to force the FBI to reveal its Supreme Court...  Read More >>

From the New York Times's Business Investigations Editor and #1 bestselling author of Dark Towers comes a long-overdue...  Read More >>

The definitive biography of Felix Frankfurter, Supreme Court justice and champion of twentieth-century American...  Read More >>