Griet Vermeesch is a fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, in Belgium. Her research relates to urban history and to access to justice in the Low Countries during the early modern period.Manon van der Heijden is Professor of Urban History at Leiden University and a member of the Academia Europaea. She is author of Women and Crime in Early Modern Holland (2016).Jaco Zuijderduijn is Associate Professor at the Department of Economic History at Lund University, Sweden. His main research interest is the development of economic exchange and conflict resolution. He previously published Medieval Capital Markets: Markets for Renten, State Formation and Private Investment in Holland (1300–1550).

• 1 The uses of justice in global perspective, 1600–1900 2 The Sinitic justice system, past and present – in a global perspective; 3 Threads of the legal web: Dutch law and everyday colonialism in eighteenth-century Asia; 4 Facing the law in eighteenth-century Galle; 5 Legal pluralism in the cities of the early modern Kingdom of Poland: the jurisdictional conflicts and uses of justice by Armenian merchants; 6 The use and abuse of legal services in nineteenth-century Russia; 7 Skipping court: civil disputes in sixteenth-century Rouen; 8 In hope of agreement: norm and practice in the use of institutes for dispute settlement in late-seventeenth-century Leiden; 9 Justice and the confines of the law in early modern Spain; 10 Lo extrajudicial: between court and community in the Spanish empire; 11 Legal pluralism, hybridization and the uses of everyday criminal law in Quebec, 1760–1867

Griet Vermeesch is a fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, in Belgium. Her research relates to urban history and to access to justice in the Low Countries during the early modern period.Manon van der Heijden is Professor of Urban History at Leiden University and a member of the Academia Europaea. She is author of Women and Crime in Early Modern Holland (2016).Jaco Zuijderduijn is Associate Professor at the Department of Economic History at Lund University, Sweden. His main research interest is the development of economic exchange and conflict resolution. He previously published Medieval Capital Markets: Markets for Renten, State Formation and Private Investment in Holland (1300–1550).

• 1 The uses of justice in global perspective, 1600–1900 2 The Sinitic justice system, past and present – in a global perspective; 3 Threads of the legal web: Dutch law and everyday colonialism in eighteenth-century Asia; 4 Facing the law in eighteenth-century Galle; 5 Legal pluralism in the cities of the early modern Kingdom of Poland: the jurisdictional conflicts and uses of justice by Armenian merchants; 6 The use and abuse of legal services in nineteenth-century Russia; 7 Skipping court: civil disputes in sixteenth-century Rouen; 8 In hope of agreement: norm and practice in the use of institutes for dispute settlement in late-seventeenth-century Leiden; 9 Justice and the confines of the law in early modern Spain; 10 Lo extrajudicial: between court and community in the Spanish empire; 11 Legal pluralism, hybridization and the uses of everyday criminal law in Quebec, 1760–1867