Oxford University Press, 2019. — 828 p. Renowned legal historian Lawrence Friedman presents an accessible and authoritative history of American law from the colonial era to the present day. This fully revised fourth edition incorporates the latest research to bring this classic work into the twenty-first century. In addition to looking closely at timely issues like race...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 820 p. With its roots in ancient Greece, Roman law and Christianity, European legal history is the history of a common civilisation. The exchange of legislative models, doctrines and customs within Europe included English common law and has been extensive from the early middle ages to the present time. In this seminal work which spans from...
Учебно-методическое пособие. — Тула: Изд-во ТулГУ, 2021. — 257 с. Весь курс истории государства и права зарубежных стран делится на четыре периода: история государства и права Древнего Рима, история государства и права в Средние века, история государства и права Нового времени, история государства и права Новейшего времени. Учебно-методическое пособие представляет собой...
Ростов-на-Дону: ДГТУ, 2021. — 97 с. Содержит комплекс разноуровневых заданий по всем изучаемым в рамках данного учебного курса государственно-правовым укладам. Практикум предназначен для студентов всех форм обучения с целью оказания им помощи в освоении основных положений истории государства и права зарубежных стран.
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 725 p. "The Oxford History of the Laws of England" provides a detailed survey of the historical development of English law and its institutions from the earliest times until the twentieth century, drawing heavily upon recent research using unpublished original documents and materials.
Third Edition. — Oxford University Press, 2009. — 486 p. This text contains the latest edition of this book. It covers the basis of the Japanese legal system, the civil code, business related laws, and other laws including criminal law and procedure, and foreign relations law. Since the last edition, Japanese law has undergone major reform all of which is reflected in the new...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. — 270 p. Following the collapse of the western Roman Empire, the Franks established in northern Gaul one of the most enduring of the Germanic barbarian kingdoms. They produced a legal code (which they called the Salic law) at approximately the same time that the Visigoths and Burgundians produced theirs, but the Frankish code is the least...
University of Washington Press, 2008. — 710 p. This volume explores major developments in Japanese law over the latter half of the twentieth century and looks ahead to the future. Modelled on the classic work "Law in Japan: The Legal Order in a Changing Society" (1963), edited by Arthur Taylor von Mehren, it features the work of thirty-five leading legal experts on most of the...
University of Chicago Press, 1971. — 210 p. Concerning the distribution of the laws of England into common law and statute law. And first, concerning the statute law, or acts of Parliament. Concerning the lex non scripta, i.e. the common or municipal laws of this kingdom. Concerning the common law of England, its use and excellence, and the reason of its denomination. Touching...
Oxford University Press, 1992. — 374 p. When the first volume of Morton Horwitz's monumental history of American law appeared in 1977, it was universally acclaimed as one of the most significant works ever published in American legal history. The New Republic called it an "extremely valuable book." Library Journal praised it as "brilliant" and "convincing." And Eric Foner, in...
Hart Publishing, 2021. — 304 p. This book explains various areas of private, public and criminal practice in the United States, as well as US legal research, to the audience of practising civil lawyers who may interact with US lawyers. Each chapter is written by a recognised specialist in his or her respective field who has practiced and taught in that field. Further, the first...
MIT Press, 2021. — 475 p. Why, when we have been largely socialized into good behavior, are there more laws that govern our behavior than ever before? Levels of violent crime have been in a steady decline for centuries—for millennia, even. Over the past five hundred years, homicide rates have decreased a hundred-fold. We live in a time that is more orderly and peaceful than...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 362 p. In this collection of essays, leading legal historians address significant topics in the history of judges and judging, with comparisons not only between British, American and Commonwealth experience, but also with the judiciary in civil law countries. It is not the law itself, but the process of law-making in courts, that is the focus...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 640 p. The Cambridge Companion to Grotius offers a comprehensive overview of Hugo Grotius (1583–1645) for students, teachers, and general readers, while its chapters also draw upon and contribute to recent specialised discussions of Grotius' oeuvre and its later reception. Contributors to this volume cover the width and breadth of Grotius'...
Second Edition. — Stanford Law Books, 2015. — 288 p. For fifty years, the first edition of The Italian Legal System has been the gold standard among English-language works on the Italian legal system. The book's original authors, Mauro Cappelletti, John Henry Merryman, and Joseph M. Perillo, provided not only an overview of Italian law, but a definition of the field, together...
Clarendon Press, 1997. — 152 p. Richard Posner is famous throughout the legal world for his pioneering and controversial espousal of the belief that the study of law cannot be divorced from the study of economics. Here, in this volume of essays based upon his Clarendon Lectures, he explores the relationship between the legal systems of the UK and USA. The essays range widely...
Central Law Publications, 2011. — 484 p. A scholarly work on Hindu Law by our learned author, Dr. B.K. Sharma, providing a comprehensive coverage and in-depth analysis of the major acts pertaining to Hindu Law, such as Hindu Marriage Act, 1955; Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956; Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956 and Hindu Succession Act, 1956. This revised...
Brill, 2023. — 205 p. — (Ancient Iran Series 15). Studies of Bactrian Legal Documents deals with legal texts written in Bactrian, an eastern Middle Iranian language, between the 4th and 8th centuries CE. The work aims to give insight in the Bactrian legal formulary as well as its historical context. In order to achieve that, the author carefully examines the terms and phrases...
University of Georgia Press, 1993. — 135 p. In Legal Transplants, one of the world's foremost authorities on legal history and comparative law puts forth a clear and concise statement of his controversial thesis on the way that law has developed throughout history. When it was first published in 1974, Legal Transplants sparked both praise and outrage. Alan Watson's argument...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. — 192 p. In the first part of the 20th century, a group of law scholars offered engaging, and occasionally disconcerting, views on the role of judges and the relationship between law and politics in the United States. These legal realists borrowed methods from the social sciences to carefully study the law as experienced by lawyers, judges, and...
Учебное пособие. — Чита: ЗабГУ, 2021. — 144 с. Учебное пособие составлено в соответствии с Федеральным государственным образовательным стандартом и включает тематический план курса, планы семинарских занятий, задания для самоконтроля, примерные вопросы к экзамену по курсу «История государства и права зарубежных стран». Издание и предназначено для студентов юридического...
Казань: Познание, 2013. — 300 с. Настоящая хрестоматия по курсу «История государства и права зарубежных стран» составлена в соответствии с Федеральным государственным образовательным стандартом по направлению 030900.62 «Юриспруденция». Хрестоматия преследует цель содействовать приобретению систематизированных знаний в области истории государства и права зарубежных стран как...
Stanford University Press, 1999. — 356 p. This pioneering volume shows that contrary to previous scholarly understanding, the courts in Qing (1644-1911) and Republican (1911-1949) China dealt extensively with civil matters such as land rights, debt, marriage, and inheritance; and, moreover, did so in a consistent and predictable way. Drawing on records of hundreds of cases from...
University of Toronto Press, 2020. — 896 p. Jurists and Jurisprudence in Medieval Italy is an original collection of texts exemplifying medieval Italian jurisprudence, known as the ius commune. Translated for the first time into English, many of the texts exist only in early printed editions and manuscripts. Featuring commentaries by leading medieval civil law jurists, notably...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 1084 p. The Indian Constitution is one of the world's longest and most important political texts. Its birth, over six decades ago, signalled the arrival of the first major post-colonial constitution and the world's largest and arguably most daring democratic experiment. Apart from greater domestic focus on the Constitution and the institutional...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 238 p. In this important study, Trevor Dean examines the history of crime and criminal justice in Italy from the mid-thirteenth to the end of the fifteenth century. The book contains studies of the most frequent types of prosecuted crime such as violence, theft and insult, along with the rarely prosecuted sorcery and sex crimes. Drawing on a...
Yale University Press, 2002. — 735 p. A history of American law in the 20th century. It describes the explosion of law over the past century into almost every aspect of American life. Since 1900 the centre of legal gravity in the United States has shifted from the state to the federal government, with the creation of agencies and programmes ranging from Social Security to the...
Catholic University of America Press, 2012. — 375 p. — (History of Medieval Canon Law 4). This newest volume in the History of Medieval Canon Law series surveys the history of Byzantine and Eastern canon law. Beginning in the Patristic Age, Susan Wessel outlines the evolution of ecclesiastical law before the Council of Nicaea (325 CE). She covers the earliest documents and...
Harvard University Press, 2019. — 192 p. Tamar Herzog offers a road map to European law across 2,500 years that reveals underlying patterns and unexpected connections. By showing what European law was, where its iterations were found, who made and implemented it, and what the results were, she ties legal norms to their historical circumstances and reveals the law’s fragile...
Walter de Gruyter, 2018. — 214 p. The relationship between politics and law in the early People's Republic of China was highly contentious. Periods of intentionally excessive campaign justice intersected with attempts to carve out professional standards of adjudication and to offer retroactive justice for those deemed to have been unjustly persecuted. How were victims and...
Routledge, 2016. — 324 p. This book provides a comprehensive and in depth guide to the regulatory framework in Singapore, the first of its kind for the foremost jurisdiction for international arbitration in the Asia-Pacific geographic zone. It is designed with practitioners in mind and provides terse and specific but detailed and well-informed commentary to each of the sections...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 1168 p. The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution provides an ideal first stop for Canadians and non-Canadians seeking a clear, concise, and authoritative account of Canadian constitutional law. The Handbook is divided into six parts: Constitutional History, Institutions and Constitutional Change, Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 365 p. The majority of European early modern empires – the Castilian, French, Dutch, and English/British – developed practices of jurisdictional accumulation, distinguished by the three categories of extensions, transports, and transplants of authority. This book is concerned with various diplomatic and colonial agents which enabled the...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 225 p. Post-war legal scholars commonly consider the Third Reich's judicial system to be the paradigm of 'evil law'. By examining how crucial parts of this distorted normative order evolved and were justified by regime-loyal legal theorists, we can appreciate how law can bend to a political ideology and fail to keep state power from...
University of California Press, 1993. — 348 p. The power of the prince versus the rights of his subjects is one of the basic struggles in the history of law and government. In this masterful history of monarchy, conceptions of law, and due process, Kenneth Pennington addresses that struggle and opens an entirely new vista in the study of Western legal tradition. Pennington...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 372 p. This book maps the changes in court advocacy in England and Wales over the last three centuries. Advocacy, the means by which a barrister puts their client’s case to the court and jury, has grown piecemeal and at an uneven pace; the result of a complex interplay of many influences. Andrew Watson examines the numerous principal factors, from...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 241 p. The bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gordon S. Wood elucidates the debates over the founding documents of the United States. The half century extending from the imperial crisis between Britain and its colonies in the 1760s to the early decades of the new republic of the United States was the greatest and most creative era of...
Учебное пособие. — Ульяновск: УлГПУ им. И.Н. Ульянова, 2021. — 68 с. Предлагаемое учебное пособие предназначено для первичного этапа изучения Истории государства и права зарубежных стран в рамках бакалавриата и охватывает только часть государств эпохи древности и средневековья, которые оказали наиболее сильное влияние на развитие государственно-правовых институтов всеобщей истории.
Routledge, 2018. — 200 p. This interdisciplinary collection presents a scholarly treatment of how the constitutional politics of federalism affect governments and citizens, offering an accessible yet comprehensive analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court’s federalism jurisprudence and its effect on the development of national and state policies in key areas of constitutional...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 612 p. Major innovations have occurred in the study of biblical law in recent decades. The legal material of the Pentateuch has received new interest with detailed studies of specific biblical passages. The comparison of biblical practice to ancient Near Eastern customs has received a new impetus with the concentration on texts from actual...
Brill, 2009. — 322 p. — (International and Comparative Criminal Law). A Guide to Documents on the Arab-Palestinian/Israeli Conflicts: 1897-2008, is a comprehensive non-partisan compilation designed to provide relevant legal and historical source material pertaining to this conflict. Each document is summarized for the reader's benefit. The compilation contains all United...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 428 p. The study of Asia and its plural legal systems is of increasing significance, both within and outside Asia. Lawyers, whether in Australia, America or Europe, or working within an Asian jurisdiction, require a sound knowledge of how the law operates across this fast-growing and diverse region. Law and Legal Institutions of Asia is the...
Hart Publishing, 2004. — 424 p. This important collection of essays is at the cutting edge of contemporary research on Roman law, comparative law, and legal history. The international and distinguished group of authors address some of the most lively contemporary problems in their respective fields, and provide new perspectives and insights in a wide range of areas. With a firm...
Fifth Edition. — Edinburgh University Press, 2021. — 159 p. Your guide to the Scots Law of Evidence, fully updated with the latest statues and case law. A handy overview of everything you need to know for your Scots law evidence course. Includes helpful student features like Essential Facts and Essential Cases for each chapter. New for this edition: Updated to take account of...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. — 336 p. The democratic revolution that swept Classical Athens transformed the role of law in Athenian society. The legal process and the popular courts took on new and expanded roles in civic life. Although these changes occurred with the consent of the "people" (demos), Athenians were ambivalent about the spread of legal culture. In...
Routledge, 2023. — 135 p. This book carries out a comprehensive analysis of the María Luz incident, a truly significant episode in Japanese and world history, from a legal perspective. In July 1872, the María Luz, a barque flying the Peruvian flag, carried Chinese indentured servants from Macau to Peru. After the ship stopped for repairs in Kanagawa Bay, a number of legal...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. — 130 p. The great frontier which divided the inhabitants of the Roman Empire from the Celtic and Germanic peoples who lived to the north was one of culture and institutions as well as forts and defense works. Yet from the bloody clashes of the third and fourth centuries there emerged a society that was neither Germanic nor Roman, but a...
Brill, 2010. — 400 p. — (Medieval Law and Its Practice 5). 'Cáin Lánamna', "The Law of Couples", an Old Irish text dated to c. 700, is arguably the most important source of information concerning women and the household economy in early Ireland. The text describes all the recognized marriages and unions, both legal and illegal, and provides information regarding the allocation...
Giuffrè, 2008. — 289 p. From a constitutional standpoint, a lot of water has passed under the bridge since the first edition of this textbook was published a decade ago. After the fall of the fourth Berlusconi Government in November 2011 Italy has had five prime ministers. The fifth, the incumbent Prof. Giuseppe Conte, presides over a "Yellow-Green" coalition composed of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 172 p. Speaking to today's flourishing conversations on both law, morality, and religion, and the religious foundations of law, politics, and society, Common Law and Natural Law in America is an ambitious four-hundred-year narrative and fresh re-assessment of the varied American interactions of 'common law', the stuff of courtrooms, and...