Legal History Books


The Closing Chapter Best Price: $43.06 The Closing Chapter contains, in Book One, a sequel to Lord Denning's autobiography, The...	Being a Roman Citizen Best Price: $144.99 The status of citizen was increasingly the right of the majority in the Roman empire and brought...	Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices Best Price: $6.99 By way of disclosure I am a private scholar who has studied the interplay of power among...	Transformative Justice: Israeli Identity on Trial (Law, Meaning, and Violence) Best Price: $20.32 Can Israel be both Jewish and democratic? Transformative Justice , Leora Bilsky's landmark...	Legal Rights: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) Best Price: $35.00 The idea of legal rights today enjoys virtually universal appeal, yet all too often the meaning...



From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law: Law, Society, and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens Best Price: $49.11 Analyzing the "democratic" features and institutions of the Athenian democracy in the...	Interstate Arbitrations in the Greek World, 337-90 B.C. (Hellenistic Culture and Society) Best Price: $75.80 A great deal of information has come to light over the past several decades about the role of...	Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) Best Price: $55.78 This book examines gender relations in Shakespeare's England by looking at women's...	Church, State, and Original Intent Best Price: $84.27 This provocative book shows how the United States Supreme Court has used constitutional history...	Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis: The Role of International Law and the State Department Legal Adviser Best Price: $23.75 Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis grew out of a series of meetings that the authors...



Purifying Empire: Obscenity and the Politics of Moral Regulation in Britain, India and Australia Best Price: $81.18 Purifying Empire explores the material, cultural and moral fragmentation of the boundaries of...	Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century: A Reassessment (Cambridge Studies in English Legal History) Best Price: $89.33 This book uses a wide range of primary sources - legal, literary and demographic - to provide a...	Contempt of Court: The Turn Of-The-Century Lynching That Launched 100 Years of Federalism Best Price: $23.96 I have read a pre-published transcript of this book,and it is an exciting incite into a...	The Lakotas and the Black Hills: The Struggle for Sacred Ground (Penguin's Library of American Indian History) Best Price: $6.85 Ostler, who is very familiar with Lakota from previous book reflecting their history since...	The Law of the Land: The Evolution of Our Legal System (Touchstone Books) Best Price: $84.91

Law's Quandary Best Price: $42.30 I wrote the following--and heartfelt--blurb for the dust jacket of Steve Smith's new book. ...	The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition Best Price: $24.00 Wow! I was shopping in a "bricks and mortar" bookstore and saw this book as I was...	Law as Culture: An Invitation Best Price: $17.00 Law is integral to culture, and culture to law. Often considered a distinctive domain with...	A particular and authentic narrative of the life, examination, tortures and execution of Robert Francis Damien, who attempted to kill Lewis XV. King of France, by stabbing him in the right side, 1757. Best Price: $10.80 The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and...	Freedom and the Court: Civil Rights and Liberties in the United States (Eighth Edition) Best Price: $28.95 This book was ordered through Amazon for a class my daughter is taking. It's a lot less...

Indian Tribal Claims Decided in the Court of Claims of the United States, Briefed and Compiled June 30, 1947: Vol. I	Indian Tribal Claims Decided in the Court of Claims of the United States, Briefed and Compiled June 30, 1947: Vol. II Best Price: $89.95	Comparative History and Legal Theory: Carl Schmitt in the First German Democracy (Contributions in Political Science) Best Price: $100.00 It is a commonplace of Schmitt scholarship that the controversial thinker sought to recapture...	The Four Faces of Affirmative Action: Fundamental Answers and Actions (Contributions in Legal Studies) Best Price: $95.00 Affirmative action can generally be described as preferential treatment for minorities and women...	Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, and the Trial That Forged a Nation Best Price: $2.70 At first glance this book would appear to be a rather standard documentary of the struggles...

The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution Best Price: $6.87 Because U.S. Supreme Court justices have effective life tenure under the federal Constitution,...	The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution Best Price: $10.95 In recent years, the justices of the Supreme Court have ruled definitively on such issues as...	The Trial: A History, from Socrates to O. J. Simpson Best Price: $11.85 How did the jury trial system get started? Surprisingly as a trial attorney, even I...	The Supreme Court Best Price: $6.00 I was pleasantly surprised by this introduction to the Supreme Court. It is written in...	Some Makers of American Law (Tagore Law Lectures)

The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial (Oxford Studies in Modern Legal History) Best Price: $46.19 Langbein's work is revolutionary in its use of the Old Bailey Sessions papers as a tool for...	The New Oxford Companion to Law (Oxford Companions) Best Price: $46.03 Professors Cane and Conaghan have produced a foremost, practical reference work on law for all...	Documents on the Tokyo International Military Tribunal: Charter, Indictment and Judgments Best Price: $233.00 Despite the recent growth of interest in international criminal law, in research and practice,...	Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier Best Price: $13.66 Among the most infamous U.S. Supreme Court decisions is Dred Scott v. Sandford . Despite the...	The Constitution in Congress: The Federalist Period, 1789-1801 Best Price: $22.37 In the most thorough examination to date, David P. Currie analyzes from a legal perspective the...

Nixon's Court: His Challenge to Judicial Liberalism and Its Political Consequences Best Price: $19.60 Most analysts have deemed Richard Nixon?s challenge to the judicial liberalism of the Warren...	Justice at Nuremberg: Leo Alexander and the Nazi Doctors' Trial (St. Antony's Series) Best Price: $19.99 Thank you so much for your prompt service. The book was just as promised, excellently packed,...	Lincoln's Supreme Court Best Price: $41.24 David M. Silver was a student of the famous Lincoln scholar Dr. James G. Randall at the...	Balancing the Scales of Justice: Local Courts and Rural Society in Southwest France, 1750-1800 Best Price: $28.83 Recent revisionist history has questioned the degree of social change attributable to the French...	Law and Social Process in United States History; Five Lectures Delivered at the University of Michigan November 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13, 1959 (The Thomas M. Cooley lectures, 9th ser)

Court-Martial at Parris Island: The Ribbon Creek Incident A revealing look at the tragic drowning of Marine recruits in 1956 and the highly-publicized...	The Supreme Court Opinions of Clarence Thomas, 1991-2006: A Conservative's Perspective Best Price: $15.58 In his years as an associate justice of the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas has written hundreds...	The Criminal Law of Ancient Rome Best Price: $83.17 Although the Romans lived in a society very different from ours, they were like us in fearing...	Gender and Justice: Violence, Intimacy, and Community in Fin-de-Siècle Paris (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science) Best Price: $28.62 Historian Eliza Earle Ferguson?s meticulously researched study of domestic violence among the...	The Law Society of Upper Canada and Ontario's Lawyers, 1797-1997 Best Price: $56.00 At the end of the eighteenth century, when ten lawyers gathered in what is now...

Essays in the History of Canadian Law: Volume VIII: In Honour of R.C.B. Risk (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History) Best Price: $90.00 This volume in the Osgoode Society's distinguished series on the history of Canadian law is...	Unforeseen Legacies: Reuben Wells Leonard and the Leonard Foundation Trust (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History) Best Price: $37.50 Colonel Reuben Wells Leonard (1860-1930) was a teacher, civil engineer, militia officer,...	The Body Legal in Barbarian Law (Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series) Best Price: $43.55 The sixth to ninth centuries saw a flowering of written laws among the early Germanic tribes....	Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Vol. X: A Tribute to Peter N. Oliver (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History) Best Price: $75.90 Written to honour the life and work of the late Peter N. Oliver, the distinguished historian and...	Atrocities on Trial: Historical Perspectives on the Politics of Prosecuting War Crimes Best Price: $25.24 Since the Nuremberg trials following World War II, there has been considerable debate about the...

Reconstruction and Black Suffrage: Losing the Vote in Reese and Cruikshank Best Price: $13.68 On Easter Sunday in 1873, more than one hundred black men were gunned down in Grant Parish,...	The Free Press Crisis of 1800: Thomas Cooper's Trial for Seditious Libel (Landmark Law Cases and American Society) Best Price: $14.30 The far-reaching Sedition Act of 1798 was introduced by Federalists to suppress Republican...	Asian Socialism and Legal Change: The dynamics of Vietnamese and Chinese Reform Best Price: $33.10 Although the immense process of economic and social transformation currently underway in China...	Section 1983 Litigation Claims & Defenses, Volume 1b: Cumulative Supplement Best Price: $76.00	An Introduction to the American Legal System, Second Edition Best Price: $70.99 The Second Edition of this successful text, An Introduction to the American Legal System,...

The Test of Time: Coping with Legislative Term Limits The Test of Time moves beyond the realm of speculation and punditry to analyze the observable...	Earl Warren and the Warren Court: The Legacy in American and Foreign Law Best Price: $25.10 Earl Warren and the Warren Court comprises essays written by leading experts from the fields of...	Law and Justice from Antiquity to Enlightenment Best Price: $25.95 As someone who is fascinated by the law and has enjoyed world history, this text book was...	The Devil's Advocates: Greatest Closing Arguments in Criminal Law Best Price: $28.09 This is a great book. Not all the arguments in the book are closing arguments, some are...	Ancient Law Best Price: $34.95 Best known as a history of progress, Ancient Law is the enduring work of the 19th-century...

Domestic Secrets: Women and Property in Sweden, 1600-1857 (Studies in Legal History) Best Price: $65.33 Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, women's role in the Swedish economy was...	Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts: Essex County, 1629-1692 (Studies in Legal History) Best Price: $39.99 Distinguished by the critical value it assigns to law in Puritan society, this study describes...	Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic (Studies in Legal History) Best Price: $29.95 The primary founder and guiding spirit of the Harvard Law School and the most prolific publicist...	Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist) Best Price: $24.99 Dayton's book argues that, in terms of courtroom cases, women in colonial Connecticut fared...	Civic Myths: A Law-and-Literature Approach to Citizenship (Cultural Studies of the United States) Best Price: $2.00 As questions of citizenship generate new debates for this generation of Americans, Thomas argues...

American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II When the U.S. government forced 70,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment...	The Supreme Court Bar: Legal Elites in the Washington Community (Constitutionalism and Democracy) Best Price: $21.80 Who represents litigants in the Supreme Court of the United States? Kevin T. McGuire shows that...	The Warren Court in Historical and Political Perspective (Constitutionalism and Democracy) Best Price: $55.00	Greasers and Gringos: Latinos, Law, and the American Imagination (Critical America Series) Best Price: $24.99 I have already read this book and I highly recommend it. This is an incredibly important book in...	The William Freeman Murder Trial: Insanity, Politics, and Race Best Price: $14.99 The William Freeman Murder Trial: Insanity, Politics, and Race by Andrew W. Arpey (Syracuse...

Partners for Democracy: Crafting the New Japanese State under MacArthur Best Price: $60.84 In 1945, Japan surrendered unconditionally to the United States and its allies, thereby planting...	Trial and Error: The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution Best Price: $106.00 Trial and Error traces the coverage or lack thereof, of evolution in textbooks used in American...	Maconochie's Gentlemen: The Story of Norfolk Island and the Roots of Modern Prison Reform (Studies in Crime and Public Policy) Best Price: $18.98 I bought this book for my Corrections class. It's not really the most exicting class in the...	A Guide to Oral History and the Law (Oxford Oral History) Best Price: $74.00 A Guide to Oral History and the Law is the definitive resource for all practitioners of oral...	The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law Best Price: $16.04 There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the...

Chief Justice Cornelius of Pakistan: An Analysis with Letters and Speeches This study draws on hitherto private correspondence to chart the legal career of the former...	Crime, Justice and Discretion in England 1740-1820 Best Price: $93.70 The criminal law has often been seen as central to the rule of the 18th century landed elite. ...	Common Law in the Sudan: An Account of the "Justice, Equity and Good Conscience" Provision	A Jurisprudence of Power: Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law (Oxford Studies in Modern Legal History) Best Price: $94.30 A Jurisprudence of Power reconstructs the martial law suppression of the Jamaica uprising of...	In the Highest Degree Odious: Detention without Trial in Wartime Britain Best Price: $62.57 footnote 45 on pp. 392-3 should read; "The Times, 9 August 1943. By 1945 Gordon-Canning...

Francis Bacon (Jurists : Profiles in Legal Theory) Simply a wonderful read. If ever you have encountered Bacon, Prof. Coquillette of Boston...	Trial of Modernity: Judicial Reform in Early Twentieth-Century China, 1901-1937 Best Price: $58.18 This is the first book in English on the Chinese judicial system and its operations in the...	Shaping the Common Law: From Glanvill to Hale, 1188-1688 (Jurists: Profiles in Legal Theory) Best Price: $40.50 In a series of fifteen vivid essays, this book discusses the contributions of great common-law...	Cash, Color, and Colonialism: The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgment Best Price: $24.95 Within the context of U.S.-Indian law, federal acknowledgment establishes a trust relationship...	The Legal 100: A Ranking of the Individuals Who Have Most Influenced the Law Best Price: $2.45 The author is a law professor, attorney, and social scientist (Ph.D. in political science). The...

Notorious Woman: The Celebrated Case of Myra Clark Gaines (Southern Biography) Best Price: $14.65 Elizabeth Urban Alexander offers a brilliantly crafted historiography. The research involved...	Lincoln and Citizens Rights in Civil War Missouri: Balancing Freedom and Security (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War) Best Price: $36.52 During the Civil War, the state of Missouri presented President Abraham Lincoln, United States...	Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 Best Price: $116.02 Women before the Bar is the first study to investigate changing patterns of women's...	The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America Best Price: $65.41 From the Mormon Church's public announcement of its sanction of polygamy in 1852 until its...	Domestic Secrets: Women and Property in Sweden, 1600-1857 (Studies in Legal History) Best Price: $65.33 Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, women's role in the Swedish economy was...

Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts: Essex County, 1629-1692 (Studies in Legal History) Best Price: $39.99 Distinguished by the critical value it assigns to law in Puritan society, this study describes...	Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic (Studies in Legal History) Best Price: $29.95 The primary founder and guiding spirit of the Harvard Law School and the most prolific publicist...	Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist) Best Price: $24.99 Dayton's book argues that, in terms of courtroom cases, women in colonial Connecticut fared...	Civic Myths: A Law-and-Literature Approach to Citizenship (Cultural Studies of the United States) Best Price: $2.00 As questions of citizenship generate new debates for this generation of Americans, Thomas argues...	American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II When the U.S. government forced 70,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment...

The Supreme Court Bar: Legal Elites in the Washington Community (Constitutionalism and Democracy) Best Price: $21.80 Who represents litigants in the Supreme Court of the United States? Kevin T. McGuire shows that...	The Warren Court in Historical and Political Perspective (Constitutionalism and Democracy) Best Price: $55.00	Greasers and Gringos: Latinos, Law, and the American Imagination (Critical America Series) Best Price: $24.99 I have already read this book and I highly recommend it. This is an incredibly important book in...	The William Freeman Murder Trial: Insanity, Politics, and Race Best Price: $14.99 The William Freeman Murder Trial: Insanity, Politics, and Race by Andrew W. Arpey (Syracuse...

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