LAW / Legal History

An Empire of Laws

Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy

Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference

by Christian R Burset

Roe

The History of a National Obsession

by Mary Ziegler

Oscar Wilde on Trial

The Criminal Proceedings, from Arrest to Imprisonment

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

Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference

by Paul W. Kahn

Vagrant Figures

Law, Literature, and the Origins of the Police

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

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

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

Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference

by John B. Nann and Morris L. Cohen

Against Dharma

Dissent in the Ancient Indian Sciences of Sex and Politics

The Terry Lectures Series

by Wendy Doniger

The Conquest of Death

Violence and the Birth of the Modern English State

by Matthew Lockwood

The Criterion for Distinguishing Legal Opinions from Judicial Rulings and the Administrative Acts of Judges and Rulers

World Thought in Translation

by Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Idris al-Qarafi al-Maliki

Translated by Mohammad H. Fadel

Inventing American Exceptionalism

The Origins of American Adversarial Legal Culture, 1800-1877

Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference

by Amalia D. Kessler