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Paperback. Some of the most exciting and innovative legal scholarship has been driven by historical curiosity. Legal history today comes in a fascinating array of shapes and sizes, from microhistory to global intellectual history. Legal history has expanded beyond traditional parochial boundaries to become increasingly international and comparative in scope and orientation. Drawing on scholarship from around the world, and representing a variety ofmethodological approaches, areas of expertise, and research agendas, this timely compendium takes stock of legal history and methodology and reflects on the various modes of the historical analysis of law,past, present, and future. Part I explores the relationship between legal history and other disciplinary perspectives including economic, philosophical, comparative, literary, and rhetorical analysis of law. Part II considers various approaches to legal history, including legal history as doctrinal, intellectual, and social history. Part III focuses on the interrelation between legal history and jurisprudence by investigating the role and conception of historical inquiry in various models,schools, and movements of legal thought. Part IV traces the place and pursuit of historical analysis in various legal systems and traditions across time, cultures, and space. Finally, Part V narrows theHandbook's focus to explore several examples of legal history in action, including its use in various legal doctrinal contexts. Some of the most exciting, and innovative, legal scholarship over the past few decades has been driven by historical curiosity. This Handbook offers a fascinating compendium of methodological studies from the field of legal history. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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1056 pages. 6.69x2.05x9.65 inches. In Stock.

Octavo, xviii, 1182 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is black with white and tan print, illustration. Dust jacket has slight edge wear. Boards in blue cloth. Slight wear to spine caps and corners. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, ND-HV Section. 1396887. FP New Rockville Stock.