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    Title
    Law and History 2003: v. 6
    Subtitle
    Current Legal Issues
    Authors and contributors
    Edited by Andrew Lewis, Edited by Michael Lobban
    Physical properties
    Format: Hardback
    Number of pages: 500
    Width: 156 mm
    Height: 234 mm
    Thickness: 27 mm
    Weight: 798 g
    Audience
    College/higher education
    General/trade
    Professional and scholarly
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9780199264148
    ISBN 10: 0199264147
    Classifications
    BISAC category code: LAW060000
    BICMainSubject: LAS
    BICMainSubject: LAF
    BIC time period qualifier: 3H
    BIC time period qualifier: 3J
    Dewey: 340.09
    LC classification: I50 \.L39
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: S5.0
    BICMainSubject: LAB
    Dewey: 340
    Edition statement
    Volume 6 ed.
    Illustrations note
    2 tables
    Publisher
    Oxford University Press
    Imprint name
    Oxford University Press
    Publication date
    08 April 2004
    Publication City/Country
    Oxford/GB
    Main description
    Law and History contains a collection of essays by prominent legal historians, which explore the ways in which history has been used by lawyers past and present to answer legal questions. In common with earlier volumes in the Current Legal Issues series, it seeks both a theoretical and methodological focus. This volume covers a broad range of topics, from a discussion of the nature of norms in the middle ages to the role of war crimes trials in the twentieth century. It includes wide-ranging historiographical discussions, which examine the nature and aims of the legal historian, as well as contributions which explore the methodology and aims of writers such as Coke, Maine, Weber, Montesquieu, and Kames, who sought to use historical models to explain law. A number of contributions examine developments in legal doctrine, particularly in the nineteenth century, including developments in the law of contract, administrative law, and perjury. These raise important questions about the nature of the legal categorizations which developed in that era. Law and History also includes a collection of contributons on the use of history in twentieth century trials, including the Nuremberg trials, the trial of the Gang of Four, and trials arising from the events in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
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