Legal history books

The New French Law of Contract analyses new general principles of contract law in the reformed Code in a concise...  Read More >>

Justice in Lyon is a comprehensive history of the trial for crimes against humanity of the Nazi Klaus Barbie.  Read More >>

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At some point, everyone living in the US has some type of interaction with the American judicial system. For most,...  Read More >>

Love, Hate, and the Law in Tudor England reconstructs the life of Ralph Rishton, a member of the sixteenth-century...  Read More >>

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Rather than rehash theoretical debates about the merits of originalism, Limits of Constraint examines originalism...  Read More >>

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To Share, Not Surrender presents multiple views and lived experience of the treaty-making process and its repercussions...  Read More >>

In The Puritan Cosmopolis, Nan Goodman demonstrates how the Puritans were far from an insular coterie that ignored...  Read More >>

Justice in Lyon is a comprehensive history of the trial for crimes against humanity of the Nazi Klaus Barbie.  Read More >>

"The guiding principle of peacemaking and peacebuilding over the past quarter century has been ""liberal peace"":...  Read More >>

Society shapes law... and law shapes society. This book tells the stories of ten legal cases in which the decisions...  Read More >>

A beautifully narrated and rich saga of one family's journey from slavery to freedom--and from the South to the...  Read More >>

The first biography of George Washington's extraordinary nephew, who inherited Mount Vernon and was Chief Justice...  Read More >>

The first biography of George Washington's extraordinary nephew, who inherited Mount Vernon and was Chief Justice...  Read More >>

Almost a century after their publication, two golden volumes by Vincenzo Arangio-Ruiz, the fruit of two courses...  Read More >>

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

Almost a century after their publication, two golden volumes by Vincenzo Arangio-Ruiz, the fruit of two courses...  Read More >>

Two economists take readers on a tour of the economics of legal and illegal weed, showing where cannabis regulation...  Read More >>

Die europaische Tradition verbindet in der Rede von der causa die Frage nach dem Zweck eines konkreten Vertrages...  Read More >>

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Ceccholo, making a claim against Nello for the payment of unpaid land rent. Jacopo, Giovanni and Turi, appealing...  Read More >>

This book combines an analysis of law with a discussion of autocratic rule over a multicultural empire. It shows...  Read More >>