LAW / Legal History

Who Am I to Judge?

Judicial Craft versus Constitutional Theory

by Mark Tushnet

Against Constitutional Originalism

A Historical Critique

Series: Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference

by Jonathan Gienapp

Roe

The History of a National Obsession

by Mary Ziegler

The Interbellum Constitution

Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms

Series: Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference

by Alison L. LaCroix

Memory and Authority

The Uses of History in Constitutional Interpretation

Series: Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference

by Jack M. Balkin

An Empire of Laws

Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy

Series: Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference

by Christian R Burset

Oscar Wilde on Trial

The Criminal Proceedings, from Arrest to Imprisonment

Series: Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference

by Joseph Bristow

A Question of Freedom

The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War

by William G. Thomas

Unsound Empire

Civilization and Madness in Late-Victorian Law

by Catherine L. Evans

Origins of Order

Project and System in the American Legal Imagination

Series: Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference

by Paul W. Kahn

Vagrant Figures

Law, Literature, and the Origins of the Police

Series: The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History

by Sal Nicolazzo

What Obergefell v. Hodges Should Have Said

The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Same-Sex Marriage Decision

Edited by Jack M. Balkin

Marriage Equality

From Outlaws to In-Laws

Series: Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference

by William N. Eskridge and Christopher R. Riano

Software Rights

How Patent Law Transformed Software Development in America

by Gerardo Con Diaz

To Save the Country

A Lost Treatise on Martial Law

Series: Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference

by Francis Lieber and G. Norman Lieber

Edited by Will Smiley and John Fabian Witt

The Yale Law School Guide to Research in American Legal History

Series: Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference

by John B. Nann and Morris L. Cohen