The Oxford Handbook of Legal History

• Introduction


• Part I Contexts: Locating Legal History


• 1: Maks Del Mar: Philosophical Analysis and Historical Inquiry: Theorising Normativity, Law and Legal Thought


• 2: Ron Harris: The History and Historical Stance of Law and Economics


• 3: Günter Frankenberg: Critical Histories of Comparative Law


• 4: Simon Stern: Literary Analysis of Law


• 5: Marianne Constable and Samera Esmeir: Rhetoric and the Possibilities of Legal History


• Part II Approaches: Conceptualizing Legal History


• 6: Markus Dubber: Legal History as Legal Scholarship: Doctrinalism, Interdisciplinarity, and Critical Analysis of Law


• 7: Laura F. Edwards: Law as Social History


• 8: Roy Kreitner: Legal History as Political History


• 9: Assaf Likhovski: The Intellectual History of Law


• 10: Joshua Getzler: Legal History as Doctrinal History


• 11: Bryan Wagner: Historical Method in the Study of Law and Culture


• 12: Anne Fleming: Legal History as Economic History


• 13: Carolyn Strange: Femininities and Masculinities: Looking Backward and Moving Forward in Criminal Legal Historical Gender Research


• 14: Angela Fernandez: Legal history as the History of Legal Texts


• 15: Katharina Isabel Schmidt: From Evolutionary Functionalism to Critical Transnationalism: Comparative Legal History, Aristotle to Present


• 16: Renisa Mawani: Archival Legal History: Toward the Ocean as Archive


• 17: Elizabeth Dale: Spelunking, or, Some Meditations on the New Presentism


• 18: Paul D. Halliday: Legal History: Taking the Long View


• 19: Daniel Klerman: Quantitative Legal History


• PART III Perspectives: Legal History in Modern Legal Thought


• 20: John V. Orth: Blackstone


• 21: Philip Schofield: Jeremy Bentham

Markus D. Dubber is Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto. Much of Markus's scholarship has focused on theoretical, comparative, and historical aspects of criminal law. He has published, as author or editor, eighteen books as well as over seventy papers; his work has appeared in English and German, and has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Italian, Korean, Persian, and Spanish. His publications include Criminal Law: A Comparative Approach (with Tatjana Hörnle) (2014); The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law (with Tatjana Hörnle) (2014); Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law (2014); The New Police Science: The Police Power in Domestic and International Governance (with Mariana Valverde) (2006); The Police Power: Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government (2005); and Victims in the War on Crime (2002).

Christopher Tomlins is the Elizabeth J. Boalt Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the Berkeley Law faculty in 2014. Trained as a historian at The Johns Hopkins University, his teaching career began in 1980 at La Trobe University, Melbourne, where he was successively Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and University Reader in Legal Studies. In 1992 Tomlins joined the research faculty of the American Bar Foundation, Chicago, where he remained until 2009, when he became Chancellor's Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine. Tomlins' primary affiliation at Berkeley Law is to the Jurisprudence and Social Policy (Ph.D.) program, in which he teaches courses on the history and law of slavery, and on legal history. He also teaches in the undergraduate Legal Studies Program.

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