"Legal History" downloads

In Contract and Consent, the renowned legal historian J. R. Pole posits that legal history has become highly specialized, while...

This is the first full-length account of the County Court, a court which in contemporary English life has become the...

Takes the lid off the prime-time TV series A must for lawyers and other viewers. For any of the...

Those who value individual freedom should reassess the place of the individual within the legal system as a whole. It...

Roscoe Pound, former dean of Harvard Law School, delivered a series of lectures at the University of Calcutta in 1948....

Tales from the Bench is a pioneer memoir about a neglected slice of Hawaii judicial history. This unique, insightful, and...

Almost since the beginning of the republic, America's rigorous separation of powers among Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branches has been...

For over one hundred years, Thomas Jefferson and his Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom have stood at the center of...

The rediscovery of Roman law and the emergence of classical canon law around AD 1100 marked the beginnings of the...

Although widely viewed as the beginning of the legal struggle to end segregation, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Brown v....

Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor challenges existing understandings of child labor by tracing how law altered...

Cataclysms is a profoundly original look at the last century. Approaching twentieth-century history from the periphery rather than the centers...

In this penetrating examination of African American politics and culture, Paul Ortiz throws a powerful light on the struggle of...

A unique insight into the reign of the imperial couple Justinian and Theodora is presented. The private and public life...

This article shines light on the history of Forbes Magazine, the origins of the publication, and its impact on America. Key...

From the point of view of economic history, the ideal way to study any institution of commercial law would be...

Novel Judgements is a book about nineteenth century Anglo-American law and literature. But by redefining law as legal theory, Novel...

American Indian affairs are much in the public mind today-hotly contested debates over such issues as Indian fishing rights, land...

An innovative account of English constitutional ideas from the mid-fifteenth century to the time of Charles I, showing how the...

This is the authoritative textbook on family mediation. As well as mediators, this work will be indispensable for practitioners and...