Oxford Legal History – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien Oxford Legal History. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
10 produkter
Arbitrating Empire
United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law
Inbunden, 2025
1270 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Arbitrating Empire offers a new history of the emergence of the United States as a global power-one shaped as much by attempts to insulate the US government from international legal scrutiny as it was by efforts to project influence across the globe. Drawing on extensive archival research in the …
Federal Ground
Governing Property and Violence in the First U.S. Territories
Inbunden, 2021
531 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Federal Ground depicts the haphazard and unplanned growth of federal authority in the Northwest and Southwest Territories, the first U.S. territories established under the new territorial system. The nation's foundational documents, particularly the Constitution and the Northwest Ordinance, placed …
Contract Before the Enlightenment
The Ideas of James Dalrymple, Viscount Stair, 1619-1695
Inbunden, 2023
1586 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Contract Before the Enlightenment represents a fresh investigation of what was then a ground-breaking approach to the law of contract written by James Dalrymple, Viscount Stair (1619-1695), lauded by some as the founding father of Scots law.As a judge and public figure, Stair was at the forefront …
The King's Felons
Church, State and Criminal Confinement in Early Tudor England
Inbunden, 2023
2708 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The King's Felons examines the subtle but intentional development of criminal confinement as an alternative to capital punishment in early Tudor England. As the judicial establishment looked for ways to enhance law and order without provoking political opposition, they increasingly turned to two …
Law's Machinery
Reforming the Craft of Lawyering in America's Industrial Age
Inbunden, 2025
1270 kr
Lägg i varukorg
It was perhaps fitting that in an age of industrialization, Americans began to think of the law as a tool, one that could be forged to fit their needs, without regard to the traditional ways of litigating cases in court. Law's Machinery explores how innovators like New York attorney David Dudley …
Arbitrating Empire
United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law
Häftad, 2026
389 kr
Kommande
Arbitrating Empire offers a new history of the emergence of the United States as a global power-one shaped as much by attempts to insulate the US government from international legal scrutiny as it was by efforts to project influence across the globe. Drawing on extensive archival research in the …
Priests of the Law
Roman Law and the Making of the Common Law's First Professionals
Inbunden, 2019
1955 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Priests of the Law tells the story of the first people in the history of the common law to think of themselves as legal professionals. In the middle decades of the thirteenth century, a group of justices working in the English royal courts spent a great deal of time thinking and writing about what …
Capitalism Before Corporations
Inbunden, 2020
1875 kr
Lägg i varukorg
To what extent did English law facilitate trade before the advent of general incorporation and modern securities law? This is the question at the heart of Capitalism before Corporations. It examines the extent to which legal institutions of the Regency period, especially Lord Eldon's …
English Administrative Law from 1550
Continuity and Change
Av Paul Craig
Inbunden, 2024
2301 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The commonly held view about English administrative law is that it is of recent origin, with some dating it from the mid-20th century and some venturing back to the late 19th century. English Administrative Law from 1550: Continuity and Change upends this conventional thinking, charting its …
Capitalism Before Corporations
Häftad, 2024
400 kr
Lägg i varukorg
To what extent did English law facilitate trade before the advent of general incorporation and modern securities law? This is the question at the heart of Capitalism before Corporations. It examines the extent to which legal institutions of the Regency period, especially Lord Eldon's …
