The Oxford Handbook of Legal History

Markus D. Dubber, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law and Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto,Christopher Tomlins, James W. and Isabel Coffroth Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence, University of California, Berkeley

Christopher Tomlins is James W. and Isabel Coffroth Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of California, Berkeley



Markus D. Dubber is Professor, Faculty of Law and Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto.

IntroductionPart I Contexts: Locating Legal History1. Philosophical Analysis and Historical Inquiry: Theorising Normativity, Law and Legal Thought, Maks Del Mar2. The History and Historical Stance of Law and Economics, Ron Harris3. Critical Histories of Comparative Law, Günter Frankenberg4. Literary Analysis of Law, Simon Stern5. Rhetoric and the Possibilities of Legal History, Marianne Constable and Samera EsmeirPart II Approaches: Conceptualizing Legal History6. Legal History as Legal Scholarship: Doctrinalism, Interdisciplinarity, and Critical Analysis of Law, Markus Dubber7. Law as Social History, Laura F. Edwards8. Legal History as Political History, Roy Kreitner9. The Intellectual History of Law, Assaf Likhovski10. Legal History as Doctrinal History, Joshua Getzler11. Historical Method in the Study of Law and Culture, Bryan Wagner12. Legal History as Economic History, Anne Fleming13. Femininities and Masculinities: Looking Backward and Moving Forward in Criminal Legal Historical Gender Research, Carolyn Strange14. Legal history as the History of Legal Texts, Angela Fernandez15. From Evolutionary Functionalism to Critical Transnationalism: Comparative Legal History, Aristotle to Present, Katharina Isabel Schmidt16. Archival Legal History: Toward the Ocean as Archive, Renisa Mawani17. Spelunking, or, Some Meditations on the New Presentism, Elizabeth Dale18. Legal History: Taking the Long View, Paul D. Halliday19. Quantitative Legal History, Daniel KlermanPART III Perspectives: Legal History in Modern Legal Thought20. Blackstone, John V. Orth21. Jeremy Bentham, Philip Schofield22. Historical Jurisprudence, Mathias Reimann23. Legal Formalism, Michael Lobban24. Sociological Jurisprudence and the Spirit of the Common Law, Noga Morag-Levine25. The Return of Legal Realism, Dan Priel26. &: Law _ Society in Historical Legal Research, Catherine L. Fisk27. Legal History and the Material Turn, Tom Johnson28. Marxist Legal History, Christopher Tomlins29. Structuralist and Poststructuralist Legal History, Justin Desautels-Stein30. Sez Who? Critical Legal History without a Privileged Position, John Henry Schlegel31. Critical Legal Studies: Europe, Emilios Christodoulidis and Johan van der Walt32. Feminist Historiography of Law: An Exposition and Proposition, Maria Drakopoulou33 Critical Race Theory and the Political Uses of Legal History, H. Timothy Lovelace, Jr.34. Queering Law's Empire: Domination and Domain in the Sexing Up of Legal History, David MintoPART IV Traditions: Tracing Legal History35. Roman Law, Clifford Ando36. Medieval Canon Law, Karl Shoemaker37. The Transformation of the Common Law: Modernism, History, and the Turn to Process, Kunal M. Parker38. Tracing Legal History in Continental Civil Law, Heikki Pihlajamäki39. Jewish Law, Steven Wilf40. Historical Research on Islamic Law, Lena Salaymeh41. 'By the Light of the Moon': Looking for China's Rich Legal Tradition, Tahirih V. Lee42. Aboriginal and Indigenous Law in Australia and New Zealand), Shaunnagh Dorsett43. Indigenous Rights in Latin America, Thomas Duve44. Indian Law, Mitra Sharafi45. Governance Histories of International Law, Doreen Lustig46. Imperial law: the Legal Historian and the Trials and Tribulations of an Imperial Past, Paul McHughPART V Illustrations: Doing Things with Legal History47. A History of Violence: American Constitutional History and the Criminal System, Gerry Leonard48. Historical Analysis in Property Law, Alfred L. Brophy49. What Do Contracts Histories Tell Us About Capitalism: From Origins and Distribution, to the Body and the Nation, Anat Rosenberg50. Historical Analysis in Criminal Law: a Counter-History of Criminal Trial Verdicts, Arlie Loughnan51. The Historical Method in Public Law, Martin Loughlin52. Historical Analysis in Environmental Law, David Schorr53. Redeeming the American Founding?, Norman W. Spaulding54. Foundings: Europe, Peter Lindseth55. Adjudication of Indigenous-Settler Relations, R.P. Boast56. Cultural Genocide: between Law and History, Leora Bilsky and Rachel Klagsbrun57. Historians' Amicus Briefs: Practice and Prospect, Sam Erman and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal