Law : Legal History

This comprehensive book will be a fundamental resource for students of Ancient Greek history and anyone interested in the law, social history and oratory of ......

Exoneration: The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Morton Sobell â Prosecutorial deceptions, suborned perjuries, anti-Semitism, and precedent for today......

What is it about affirmative action that makes this public policy one of the most contentious political issues in the United States today? The answer to this......

The End of the Rod describes the tortuous steps that led to the abolition of corporal punishment as a sentence of the courts in England and Wales in 1948. It...

The fate of Native Americans has been dependent in large part upon the recognition and enforcement of their legal, political, property, and cultural rights a......

On October 21, 1996, attorney Michael Hausfeld, with a team of lawyers, filed a class-action complaint against Union Bank of Switzerland, Swiss Bank Corporat......

Can Israel be both Jewish and democratic? Transformative Justice, Leora Bilsky's landmark study of Israeli political trials, poses this deceptively simple......

Running through the history of jurisprudence and legal theory is a recurring concern about the connections between law and justice and about the ways law is ......

Most of us think of punishment as an ugly display of power. But punishment also tells us something about the ideals and aspirations of a people and their gov......

Drawing on the evidence of anthropology as well as ancient literature and inscriptions, Gagarin examines the emergence of law in Greece from the 8th through ......

This is the first systematic treatment in English by an historian of the nature, aims and efficacy of public law in late imperial Roman society from the thir......

Greeks wrote mostly on papyrus, but the Romans wrote solemn religious, public, and legal documents on wooden tablets often coated with wax. This book investi......

This is the first extended study of gender and crime in early modern England. It considers the ways in which criminal behaviour and perceptions of criminalit......

Talfourd's first Copyright Bill was presented in 1837, and the public and Parliamentary controversy it provoked is reflected in contemporary pamphlets, corre......

This is the first full-length account of the County Court, a court which in contemporary English life has become the main forum for most civil disputes. The ......

Roman Law in Context explains how Roman law worked for those who lived by it, by viewing it in the light of the society and economy in which it operated....

This study traces the transition of treason from a personal crime against the monarch to a modern crime against the impersonal state. It consists of four hig......

The emergence of a European private law is one of the great issues on the legal agenda of our time. Set-off and 'extinctive' prescription (or limitation of a......

Anglo-American private law (the law governing mutual rights and obligations of individuals) has been a far more complex phenomenon than is usually recognized......

Using a wide range of legal, administrative and literary sources, this study explores the role of the royal pardon in the exercise and experience of authorit......