Law & Criminology

Poine: a study in ancient Greek blood-vengeance

Hubert Joseph Treston

Hubert J. Treston’s Poine is a scholarly study that treats ancient Greek blood‑vengeance as a window onto the…

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921

Various

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6 (1921) is a scholarly periodical devoted to the study of…

The Life of John Marshall, Volume 4: The building of the nation, 1815-1835

Albert J. Beveridge

Albert J. Beveridge’s fourth volume on John Marshall is a scholarly biography that situates the chief justice…

By Advice of Counsel

Arthur Cheney Train

By Advice of Counsel is a legal‑themed adventure that follows the bustling cases of the fictional firm Tutt &…

The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814

The work is a verbatim record of the 1814 trial held in the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, concerning a…

A Selection of Cases on the Law of Torts

This work is a scholarly compilation of tort cases assembled for law students in the early twentieth‑century…

Criminality and economic conditions

Willem Adriaan Bonger

The work is a scholarly survey that sets out to link crime with its economic environment.

Soldan's Geschichte der Hexenprozesse. Zweiter Band

Wilhelm Gottlieb Soldan

Der zweite Band von Wilhelm Gottlieb Soldans „Geschichte der Hexenprozesse“ ist ein historisch‑juristisches…

Powers of the President during crises

Smith, J. Malcolm (John Malcolm); Cotter, Cornelius P.

The work is a scholarly study of the United States president’s emergency authority, tracing statutory…

Ancient law: Its Connection to the History of Early Society

Sir Henry Sumner Maine

Sir Henry Sumner Maine’s Ancient Law is a scholarly treatise that sets out to rewrite the history of early…

State Trials, Political and Social. Volume 1 (of 2)

The work is a curated anthology of historic British state trials, assembled by H. L.

A Book About Lawyers

John Cordy Jeaffreson

John Cordy Jeaffreson’s A Book About Lawyers is a social‑historical sketch that treats the Inns of Court as…

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" Volume 12, Slice 5

Various

Encyclopaedia Britannica’s 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5, is a scholarly reference work that gathers a…

Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 1 (of 3)

Paris, John Ayrton; Fonblanque, J. S. M.

Six Years in the Prisons of England

Six Years in the Prisons of England is an autobiographical account that traces the author’s rapid ascent from…

A Treatise Upon the Law of Copyright in the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the Crown, and in the United States of America Containing a Full Appendix of All Acts of Parliament International Conventions, Orders in Council, Treasury Minute and Acts of Congress Now in Force.

Evan James MacGillivray

Evan James MacGillivray’s treatise is a painstakingly organized reference work that sets out, in exhaustive…

The Common Law

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The work is a scholarly treatise on the development of the common law, opening with a methodical preface that…

Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book the First

Sir William Blackstone

The work is a systematic exposition of English law, originally delivered as a series of lectures at Oxford…

Trials of war criminals before the Nuernberg military tribunals under control council law no. 10, volume III

Various

The volume is a scholarly compilation of the “Justice Case,” the third of the twelve Nuremberg Military…

An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition

George Sharswood

George Sharswood’s An Essay on Professional Ethics (Second Edition, 1860) is a scholarly treatise that grew…

Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 2 (of 3)

Paris, John Ayrton; Fonblanque, J. S. M.

Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 2 of 3 is a systematic treatise on the legal implications of death and injury,…

Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students

Hans Gross

Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students is a scholarly translation of Hans…

The Institutes of Justinian

The work before you is a legal textbook commissioned by Emperor Justinian himself, intended as a concise…

Psychopathia sexualis: With especial reference to contrary sexual instinct A medico-legal study

R. von Krafft-Ebing

The work is a scholarly medico‑legal treatise that sets out to catalogue and explain the “pathological…