Oxford handbook of legal history

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The History of Law and Economics / Ron Harris -- Legal History as Doctrinal History / Joshua Getzler -- Historical Method in the Study of Law and Culture / Bryan Wagner -- Legal History as Economic History / Anne Fleming -- Legal History as the History of Legal Texts / Angela Fernandez -- From Evolutionary Functionalism to Critical Transnationalism: Comparative Legal History, Aristotle to Present / Katharina Isabel Schmidt -- Archival Legal History: Toward the Ocean as Archive / Renisa Mawani -- Spelunking, or, Some Meditations on the New Presentism / Elizabeth Dale -- Legal History and Longue Dur�ee: Taking the Long View / Paul D. Halliday -- Quantitative Legal History / Daniel Klerman -- Philosophical Analysis and Historical Inquiry: Theorising Normativity, Law, and Legal Thought / Maks Del Mar -- Blackstone / John V. Orth -- Jeremy Bentham / Philip Schofield -- Historical Jurisprudence / Mathias Reimann -- Legal Formalism / Michael Lobban -- Sociological Jurisprudence and the Spirit of the Common Law / Noga Morag-Levine -- The Return of Legal Realism / Dan Priel -- Law & Society in Historical Legal Research / Catherine L. Fisk -- Legal History and the Material Turn / Tom Johnson -- Marxist Legal History / Christopher Tomlins -- Structuralist and Poststructuralist Legal History / Justin Desautels-Stein -- Sez Who? Critical Legal History without a Privileged Position / John Henry Schlegel -- Critical Legal Studies: Europe / Emilios Christodoulidis, Johan van der Walt -- Feminist Legal History / Maria Drakopoulou -- Critical Race Theory and the Political Uses of Legal History / H. Timothy Lovelace Jr. -- Queering Law's Empire: Domination and Domain in the Sexing Up of Legal History / David Minto -- Roman Law / Clifford Ando -- Medieval Canon law / Karl Shoemaker -- Civil Law / Heikki Pihlajam�aki -- Jewish Law / Steven Wilf -- Historical Research on Islamic Law / Lena Salaymeh -- Critical Histories of Comparative Law / G�unter Frankenberg -- "By the Light of the Moon": Looking for China's Rich Legal Tradition / Tahirih V. Lee -- Traditions: Tracing Legal History, Aboriginal/Indigenous Law (Australia/New Zealand) / Shaunnagh Dorsett -- Indigenous Rights: Latin America / Thomas Duve -- Indian Law / Mitra Sharafi -- Governance Histories of International Law / Doreen Lustig -- Imperial Law: The Legal Historian and the Trials and Tribulations of an Imperial Past / Paul G. Mchugh -- A History of Violence: American Constitutional History and the Criminal System / Gerald Leonard -- Literary Analysis of Law / Simon Stern -- Doing Things with Legal History: Historical Analysis in Property Law / Alfred L. Brophy -- The Transformation of the Common Law: Modernism, History, and the Turn to Process / Kunal Parker -- What Do Contracts Histories Tell Us About Capitalism?: From Origins and Distribution, to the Body and the Nation / Anat Rosenberg -- Historical Analysis in Criminal Law: A Counter-History of Criminal Trial Verdicts / Arlie Loughnan -- The Historical Method in Public Law / Martin Loughlin -- Redeeming the American Founding? / Norm Spaulding -- Foundings: Europe / Peter Lindseth -- Adjudication of Settler-Indigenous Relations / Richard P. Boast -- Cultural Genocide: Between Law and History / Leora Bilsky, Rachel Klagsbrun -- Rhetoric and the Possibilities of Legal History / Marianne Constable, Samera Esmeir -- Historians' Amicus Briefs: Practice and Prospect / Sam Erman, Nathan Perl-Rosenthal -- Femininities and Masculinities: Looking Backward and Moving Forward in Criminal Legal Historical Gender Research / Carolyn Strange -- Historical Analysis in Environmental Law / David B. Schorr -- Legal History as Legal Scholarship: Doctrinalism, Interdisciplinarity, and Critical Analysis of Law / Markus D. Dubber -- Law as Social History / Laura F. Edwards -- Legal History as Political History / Roy Kreitner -- The Intellectual History of Law / Assaf Likhovski.

Some of the most exciting and innovative legal scholarship has been driven by historical curiosity. Legal history today comes in a fascinating array of shapes and sizes, from microhistory to global intellectual history. Legal history has expanded beyond traditional parochial boundaries to become increasingly international and comparative in scope and orientation. Drawing on scholarship from around the world, and representing a variety of methodological approaches, areas of expertise, and research agendas, this timely compendium takes stock of legal history and methodology and reflects on the various modes of the historical analysis of law, past, present, and future.

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