Legal history books

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Vagrant Lives in Colonial Australasia: Regulating Mobility, 1840-1910

Vagrant Lives in Colonial Australasia: Regulating Mobility,...

Author: Catharine Coleborne
ISBN: 9781350252691
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Investigating the history of vagrants in colonial Australia and New Zealand, this book provides insights into the...  Read More >>

Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court

Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court

Author: Orville Vernon Burton ,  Armand Derfner
ISBN: 9780674295445
Format: Paperback
$43.95

In the first comprehensive account of the Supreme Court’s race-related jurisprudence, a distinguished historian...  Read More >>

After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It

After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to...

Author: Julie C. Suk
ISBN: 9780520402973
Format: Paperback
$45.95

"A rigorous analysis of systemic misogyny in the law and a thoughtful exploration of the tools needed to transcend...  Read More >>

Quiet Rebels: A History of Ontario Women Lawyers

Quiet Rebels: A History of Ontario Women Lawyers

Author: Mary Jane Mossman
ISBN: 9781771125925
Format: Hardback
$135.30

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The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature

The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature...

Author: Elise Wang (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, California State University, Fullerton)
ISBN: 9780192870728
Format: Hardback
$149.95

This book is about felony prosecution in late medieval England, which it argues was shaped by literary and legal...  Read More >>

The Quislings: The Trials of Norwegian Wartime Collaborators, 1941–1964

The Quislings: The Trials of Norwegian Wartime Collaborators,...

Author: Anika Seemann (Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy)
ISBN: 9781009212304
Format: Hardback
$219.94

The Norwegian 'treason trials' were the most extensive post-war 'reckoning' with wartime collaboration in all of...  Read More >>

Constitutional History of Transylvania

Constitutional History of Transylvania

Author: Emőd Veress
ISBN: 9783031221682
Format: Paperback
$527.97

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Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection: The Legal Culture and Trials, 1794-1795

Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection:...

Author: Linda Myrsiades
ISBN: 9780820366241
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Explores the legal culture that informed the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 and its trials. Linda Myrsiades examines...  Read More >>

Ideas of Poverty in the Age of Enlightenment

Ideas of Poverty in the Age of Enlightenment

Author: Niall O’Flaherty ,  Robin Mills
ISBN: 9781526166777
Format: Hardback
$206.99

This collection of essays examines the ways in which poverty was conceptualised in the social, political, and religious...  Read More >>

The Supreme Court and the Philosopher: How John Stuart Mill Shaped US Free Speech Protections

The Supreme Court and the Philosopher: How John Stuart...

Author: Eric T. Kasper ,  Troy A. Kozma
ISBN: 9781501774515
Format: Hardback
$118.67

"""English philosopher John Stuart Mill's understanding of the freedom of speech has been increasingly adopted over...  Read More >>

Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection: The Legal Culture and Trials, 1794-1795

Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection:...

Author: Linda Myrsiades
ISBN: 9780820366265
Format: Hardback
$303.47

Explores the legal culture that informed the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 and its trials. Linda Myrsiades examines...  Read More >>

Wage Rage for Equal Pay: Australia’s Long, Long Struggle

Wage Rage for Equal Pay: Australia’s Long, Long Struggle...

Author: Jocelynne A. Scutt
ISBN: 9783031421778
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book ​makes a major contribution to the continuing legal and historical struggle for equal pay in Australia,...  Read More >>

Chinese Rule of Law Path and Cultivation of Foreign-Related Rule of Law Talents

Chinese Rule of Law Path and Cultivation of Foreign-Related...

Author: Xiaobo Dong ,  Jie Guo
ISBN: 9789819723126
Format: Hardback
$422.37

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Court-Hand Restored [1879]

Court-Hand Restored [1879]

Author: Andrew Wright
ISBN: 9781616196899
Format: Paperback
$44.75

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A Modern Legal History of Treasure

A Modern Legal History of Treasure

Author: N.M. Dawson
ISBN: 9783031128356
Format: Paperback
$448.77

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Re-Reading Beccaria: On the Contemporary Significance of a Penal Classic

Re-Reading Beccaria: On the Contemporary Significance...

Author: Antje du Bois-Pedain (University of Cambridge, UK) ,  Shachar Eldar (Ono Academic College, Israel)
ISBN: 9781509959174
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Cesare Beccaria’s slim 1764 volume On Crimes and Punishments influenced policy developments worldwide and over decades,...  Read More >>

Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783

Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in...

Author: Lee B. Wilson (Clemson University, South Carolina)
ISBN: 9781108817899
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Bonds of Empire reveals how English law facilitated the expansion of slavery in British America. Moving beyond...  Read More >>

Schuldgrundsatz: Entstehung - Entwicklungsgeschichte - aktuelle Herausforderungen

Schuldgrundsatz: Entstehung - Entwicklungsgeschichte...

Author: Wolfgang Wohlers ,  Kurt Seelmann
ISBN: 9783161621369
Format: Hardback
$282.48

Die Debatte um die Schuld erlebt seit dem Entstehen des strafrechtlichen Schulddenkens beständig Renaissancen. Auch...  Read More >>

Confluences of law and history: Irish Legal History Society discourses and other papers, 2011-21

Confluences of law and history: Irish Legal History...

Author: Niamh Howlin ,  Felix M. Larkin
ISBN: 9781801510851
Format: Hardback
$129.38

This book brings together an eclectic mix of papers on aspects of Irish legal history and the early modern period...  Read More >>

The Laws of Yesterday’s Wars 3: From the Highlands of Papua New Guinea to the Island of Malta

The Laws of Yesterday’s Wars 3: From the Highlands of...

Author: Samuel White
ISBN: 9789004512559
Format: Hardback
$454.08

How international is international humanitarian law? This book attempts to answer that question. It offers a culture-by-culture...  Read More >>

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