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Juries and the Transformati...

Juries and the Transformation of Criminal Justice in France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries [Author] James M. Donovan [Published] 2010, The University of North Carolina Press [ISBN] 978-0-8078-3363-6 [Description] James Donovan takes a comprehensive approach to the history of the jury in modern France by investigating the legal, political, sociocultural, and...

Before Eminent Domain: Towa...

Before Eminent Domain: Toward a History of Expropriation of Land for the Common Good [Author] Susan Reynolds [Published] 2010, The University of North Carolina Press [ISBN] 978-0-8078-3353-7 [Description] In this concise history of expropriation of land for the common good in Europe and North America from medieval times to 1800, Susan Reynolds contextualizes the history...

Beyond the Prison Gates: Pu...

Beyond the Prison Gates: Punishment and Welfare in Germany, 1850-1933 [Author] Warren Rosenblum [Published] 2009, The University of North Carolina Press [ISBN] 978-0-8078-3204-2 [Awards] 2009 Baker-Burton Award, Southern Historical Association European History Section [Description] Germany today has one of the lowest incarceration rates in the industrialized world, and...

The Inception of Modern Pro...

The Inception of Modern Professional Education: C. C. Langdell, 1826-1906 [Author] Bruce A. Kimball [Published] 2009, The University of North Carolina Press [ISBN] 978-0-8078-3257-8 [Awards] 2009 Outstanding Publication of the Year, American Educational Research Association, Postsecondary Education Division [Description] Christopher C. Langdell (1826-1906) is one of the...

Catalonia’s Advocates...

Catalonia’s Advocates: Lawyers, Society, and Politics in Barcelona, 1759-1900 [Author] Stephen Jacobson [Published] 2009, The University of North Carolina Press [ISBN] 978-0-8078-3297-4 [Description] Offering a window into the history of the modern legal profession in Western Europe, Stephen Jacobson presents a history of lawyers in the most industrialized city on...

About the Book Series

This series aims to publish the highest quality work in legal history by both junior and senior scholars. Our goal is to produce monographs that take a variety of methodological and theoretical approaches, but always with respect for historical and legal change. The series is dedicated to the understanding of law as both a product of and contributor to history.

ASLH Membership Information

The American Society for Legal History offers numerous benefits for scholars of legal history. The society holds annual conferences to foster intellectual development in legal history worldwide. While the organization is primarily based within the United States, its membership and its scope are international.

About Our Editors

Get to know the ASLH Book Series Editors: Holly Brewer, Sarah (Sally) Barringer Gordon, and Michael Lobban.

About ASLH

The American Society for Legal History is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to fostering scholarship, teaching, and dissemination of historical information about the law and institutions of all legal systems. The organization was founded in 1956. The American Society for Legal History offers numerous membership benefits for scholars of legal history. The society holds annual conferences to foster intellectual development in legal history worldwide. While the organization is primarily based within the United States, its membership and its scope are international.

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