Legal history books

Legal historians have analysed the characteristics of merchant guilds and nationes (i.e., associations of foreign...  Read More >>

Fifty years after President Richard Nixon declared a War on Drugs, the United States government has spent over a...  Read More >>

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Juvenile Justice Systems outlines options for shaping the juvenile liability models: welfare, justice, rehabilitative...  Read More >>

Die deutsche Handelsgerichtsbarkeit zeichnet sich bis heute durch die Mitwirkung sachkundiger Laienrichter aus....  Read More >>

From ancient Mesopotamia to today, the epic story of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations  Rulers throughout...  Read More >>

This book takes a closer look at colonial despotism in early nineteenth-century India and argues that it resulted...  Read More >>

Further, it rejects the notion of deliberate state-building and demonstrates that the nobility used this terminology...  Read More >>

Further, it rejects the notion of deliberate state-building and demonstrates that the nobility used this terminology...  Read More >>

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Is there a future for the law? In this book, Florian Grisel addresses one of the most fascinating questions raised...  Read More >>

This book highlights the impact of Christianity on the history of law and society in the Lowlands. The diversity...  Read More >>

The North German lawyer David Mevius is one of the great European figures of Usus modernus. Here, for the first...  Read More >>

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Packed with insights into Jewish life, The Jewish Contribution to English Law tells why Jews were drawn to the law....  Read More >>

"Die Vorstellung der ""Vindikationsersatzfunktion"" der Leistungskondiktion ist weit verbreitet. Kaum beleuchtet...  Read More >>

Over the course of the twentieth century, only a minority of the perpetrators of international crimes ever stood...  Read More >>

Der Basler Jurist und Strassburger Stadtschreiber Sebastian Brant darf als typischer Vertreter der intellektuellen...  Read More >>

Questions of legal extraterritoriality figure prominently in scholarship on legal pluralism, transnational legal...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1999, this book deals with the cultural and legal debates which have counterposed the right...  Read More >>

Das vierbändige „Handbuch zur Geschichte der Konfliktlösung in Europa“ beschäftigt sich mit rechtlichen und außerrechtlichen...  Read More >>

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At once a dramatic courtroom narrative and a deeper meditation on the enduring power of homophobia, Cruising for...  Read More >>

By undertaking a comparison of institutional methods across a wide expanse of time, Keeping the People’s Liberties...  Read More >>

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org This sweeping book details...  Read More >>