Transforming Legal Histories
About the Book Series
This book series showcases work which takes a historical approach to question understandings about law. This approach places today’s substantive law in its context, enabling an understanding of social and legal change and the complex relationship between change and continuity. It is designed to place the historical study of law at the heart of the law curriculum. The reach of the series is not limited in time or space, producing books that cover a wide range of jurisdictions and periods. The editorial board welcome proposals which engage with a general audience in relevant legal and non-legal fields including where appropriate, a student readership.
Legal History in the Curriculum: Comparative Perspectives, Critical Approaches and Future Directions
1st Edition
Edited
By Caroline Derry, Carol Howells
June 30, 2025
As legal education faces fresh challenges and opportunities, and a growing literature calls for subversive new approaches, this book engages with vital questions about the place of history in the law school. How and why should we teach legal history? What is its place in the curriculum? What can ...
Uncertainty in Comparative Law and Legal History: Known Unknowns
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew J. Bell, Joanna McCunn
December 13, 2024
Laws are imposed on facts. But what is the law to do when its rules for establishing facts do not—because they cannot—produce a satisfactory answer? Scenarios that raise this intractable uncertainty problem have been treated as isolated concerns, but are in fact endemic across legal systems. They ...
Law and the Medieval Village Community: Reinvigorating Historical Jurisprudence
1st Edition
By Lorren Eldridge
November 29, 2024
This book expands on established doctrine in legal history and sets out a challenge for legal philosophers. The English medieval village community offers a historical and philosophical lens on the concept of custom which challenges accepted notions of what law is. The book traces the study of the ...
Subversive Legal History: A Manifesto for the Future of Legal Education
1st Edition
By Russell Sandberg
January 09, 2023
Provocative, audacious and challenging, this book rejuvenates not only the historical study of law but also the role of Law Schools by asking which stories we tell and which stories we forget. It argues that a historical approach to law should be at the beating heart of the Law School curriculum. ...