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Some of the most exciting, and innovative, legal scholarship over the past few decades has been driven by historical curiosity. This
Handbook offers a fascinating compendium of methodological studies from the field of legal history.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part I Contexts: Locating Legal History
- 1: Maks Del Mar: Philosophical Analysis and Historical Inquiry: Theorising Normativity, Law and Legal Thought
- 2: Ron Harris: The History and Historical Stance of Law and Economics
- 3: Günter Frankenberg: Critical Histories of Comparative Law
- 4: Simon Stern: Literary Analysis of Law
- 5: Marianne Constable and Samera Esmeir: Rhetoric and the Possibilities of Legal History
- Part II Approaches: Conceptualizing Legal History
- 6: Markus Dubber: Legal History as Legal Scholarship: Doctrinalism, Interdisciplinarity, and Critical Analysis of Law
- 7: Laura F. Edwards: Law as Social History
- 8: Roy Kreitner: Legal History as Political History
- 9: Assaf Likhovski: The Intellectual History of Law
- 10: Joshua Getzler: Legal History as Doctrinal History
- 11: Bryan Wagner: Historical Method in the Study of Law and Culture
- 12: Anne Fleming: Legal History as Economic History
- 13: Carolyn Strange: Femininities and Masculinities: Looking Backward and Moving Forward in Criminal Legal Historical Gender Research
- 14: Angela Fernandez: Legal history as the History of Legal Texts
- 15: Katharina Isabel Schmidt: From Evolutionary Functionalism to Critical Transnationalism: Comparative Legal History, Aristotle to Present
- 16: Renisa Mawani: Archival Legal History: Toward the Ocean as Archive
- 17: Elizabeth Dale: Spelunking, or, Some Meditations on the New Presentism
- 18: Paul D. Halliday: Legal History: Taking the Long View
- 19: Daniel Klerman: Quantitative Legal History
- PART III Perspectives: Legal History in Modern Legal Thought
- 20: John V. Orth: Blackstone
- 21: Philip Schofield: Jeremy Bentham
- 22: Mathias Reimann: Historical Jurisprudence
- 23: Michael Lobban: Legal Formalism
- 24: Noga Morag-Levine: Sociological Jurisprudence and the Spirit of the Common Law
- 25: Dan Priel: The Return of Legal Realism
- 26: Catherine L. Fisk: and: Law _ Society in Historical Legal Research
- 27: Tom Johnson: Legal History and the Material Turn
- 28: Christopher Tomlins: Marxist Legal History
- 29: Justin Desautels-Stein: Structuralist and Poststructuralist Legal History
- 30: John Henry Schlegel: Sez Who? Critical Legal History without a Privileged Position
- 31: Emilios Christodoulidis and Johan van der Walt: Critical Legal Studies: Europe
- 32: Maria Drakopoulou: Feminist Historiography of Law: An Exposition and Proposition
- 33: H. Timothy Lovelace, Jr.: Critical Race Theory and the Political Uses of Legal History
- 34: David Minto: Queering Law's Empire: Domination and Domain in the Sexing Up of Legal History
- PART IV Traditions: Tracing Legal History
- 35: Clifford Ando: Roman Law
- 36: Karl Shoemaker: Medieval Canon Law
- 37: Kunal M. Parker: The Transformation of the Common Law: Modernism, History, and the Turn to Process
- 38: Heikki Pihlajamäki: Tracing Legal History in Continental Civil Law
- 39: Steven Wilf: Jewish Law
- 40: Lena Salaymeh: Historical Research on Islamic Law
- 41: Tahirih V. Lee: 'By the Light of the Moon': Looking for China's Rich Legal Tradition
- 42: Shaunnagh Dorsett: Aboriginal and Indigenous Law in Australia and New Zealand)
- 43: Thomas Duve: Indigenous Rights in Latin America
- 44: Mitra Sharafi: Indian Law
- 45: Doreen Lustig: Governance Histories of International Law
- 46: Paul McHugh: Imperial law: the Legal Historian and the Trials and Tribulations of an Imperial Past
- PART V Illustrations: Doing Things with Legal History
- 47: Gerry Leonard: A History of Violence: American Constitutional History and the Criminal System
- 48: Alfred L. Brophy: Historical Analysis in Property Law
- 49: Anat Rosenberg: What Do Contracts Histories Tell Us About Capitalism: From Origins and Distribution, to the Body and the Nation
- 50: Arlie Loughnan: Historical Analysis in Criminal Law: a Counter-History of Criminal Trial Verdicts
- 51: Martin Loughlin: The Historical Method in Public Law
- 52: David Schorr: Historical Analysis in Environmental Law
- 53: Norman W. Spaulding: Redeeming the American Founding?
- 54: Peter Lindseth: Foundings: Europe
- 55: R.P. Boast: Adjudication of Indigenous-Settler Relations
- 56: Leora Bilsky and Rachel Klagsbrun: Cultural Genocide: between Law and History
- 57: Sam Erman and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal: Historians' Amicus Briefs: Practice and Prospect
About the author
Christopher Tomlins is James W. and Isabel Coffroth Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of California, Berkeley
Markus D. Dubber is Professor, Faculty of Law and Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto.
Summary
Some of the most exciting, and innovative, legal scholarship over the past few decades has been driven by historical curiosity. This Handbook offers a fascinating compendium of methodological studies from the field of legal history.
