Studies
in Legal History is published by the University of North Carolina Press in association with the American Society for Legal History. The series consists of books that grapple with key questions in legal history. The series welcomes works of unusual distinction by both senior and junior scholars. Most of the published volumes in the series deal with American legal history, though a significant number are on European topics. There are no chronological, cultural, or geographical limits on volumes in the series.
Series editors are Daniel R. Ernst, Georgetown University Law Center, and Thomas A. Green, University of Michigan . They welcome the submission of manuscripts on legal history to be considered for inclusion in the series.One to two new titles appear in the series each year.
Society members enjoy a 30% discount on the regular price of books in the series. To view a list of all titles currently in print and purchase them from UNC Press, please click here. At the time of ordering, please note "ASLH member, 30% discount" in the comments field to receive the discounted price; your total will be corrected at the time your shipment is processed.
Below is a list of some of the titles that have appeared in the series, both in print and out of print. They are arranged alphabetically by authors' last names:
On the Laws and Customs of England : Essays in Honor of Samuel E. Thorne
By Morris S. Arnold, Thomas A. Green, Sallay A. Sully and Stephen D. White
cloth $25.00 ISBN 0-8078-1434-2 (Out of print)
Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South
by Peter W. Bardaglio
paper $24.50 ISBN 0-8078-4712-7
The Great Catastrophe of My Life: Divorce in the Old Dominion
by Thomas E. Buckley, S.J.
cloth $65.00 ISBN 0-8078-2712-6
paper $21.95 ISBN 0-8078-5380-1
The Rule of Law: Albert Venn Dicey, Victorian Jurist
by Richard A. Cosgrove
cloth $19.50 ISBN 0-8078-1410-5 (Out of print)
An Imperfect Union : Slavery, Federalism, and Comity
by Paul Finkelman
cloth $30.00 ISBN 0807814385 (Out of print)
paper ISBN 0807840661 (Out of print)
The Roots of Justice: Crime and Punishment in Alameda County , California , 1870-1910
by Lawrence M. Friedman and Robert V. Percival
cloth $39.95 ISBN 0807814768 (Out of print)
The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
by Sarah Barringer Gordon
cloth $55.00 ISBN 0-8078-2661-8
paper $21.95 ISBN 0-8078-4987-1
Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America
by Michael Grossberg
paper $35.00 ISBN 0-8078-4225-7
Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920
by Richard F. Hamm
cloth $65.00 ISBN 0807821810 (Out of print)
paper $24.95 ISBN 0807844934 (Out of print)
electronic $65.00
Public Property and Private Power: The Corporation of the City of New York in American Law, 1730-1870
by Hendrik Hartog
cloth $55.00 ISBN 0807815624 (Out of print)
Prison and Plantation : Crime, Justice, and Authority in Massachusetts
and South Carolina
by Michael Stephen Hindus
cloth $34.95 ISBN 0807814172 (Out of print)
Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955
Edited by Douglas Hay and Paul Craven
cloth $69.95 ISBN 0-8078-2877-7
Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664-1830
by Daniel J. Hulsebosch
cloth $45.00 ISBN 0-8078-2955-2
Legal Realism at Yale, 1927-1960
by Laura Kalman
cloth ISBN 0-8078-1677-9 (Out of print)
Yale Law School and the Sixties: Revolt and Reverberations
by Laura Kalman
cloth $49.95 ISBN 0-8078-2966-8
Heart versus Head: Judge-Made Law in Nineteenth-Century America
by Peter Karsten
cloth $75.00 ISBN 0-8078-2340-6
Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts : Essex County , 1629-1692
by David Thomas Konig
cloth $25.00 ISBN 0-8078-1336-2 (Out of print)
paper ISBN 0-8078-4081-5 (Out of print)
electronic $39.95
The Invention of Party Politics: Federalism, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Development in Jacksonian Illinois
by Gerald Leonard
cloth $49.95 ISBN 0-8078-2744-4
Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine
by Assaf Likhovski
cloth $49.95 ISBN 0-8078-3017
Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut
by Bruce H. Mann
paper $25.00 ISBN 0-8078-5365-8
The Bar and the Old Bailey, 1750-1850
by Allyson N. May
cloth $55.00 ISBN 0-8078-2806-8
The Anti-Rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839-1865
by Charles W. McCurdy
cloth $55.00 ISBN 0-8078-2590-5
paper $ ISBN 0-8078-5765-3
Underdevelopment and the Development of Law: Corporations and Corporation Law in Nineteenth-Century Colombia
by Robert Charles Means
cloth $32.50 ISBN 0807814237 (Out of print)
Laboratories of Virtue: Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia , 1760-1835
by Michael Meranze
paper $27.50 ISBN 0-8078-5631-2
Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860
by Thomas D. Morris
paper $27.50 ISBN 0-8078-4817-4
Dispute and Conflict Resolution in Plymouth County , Massachusetts , 1725-1825
by William E. Nelson
cloth $22.00 ISBN 0807814547 (Out of print)
The Legalist Reformation: Law, Politics, and Ideology in New York, 1920-1980
by William E. Nelson
cloth $55.00 ISBN 0-8078-2591-3
paper $21.95 ISBN 0-8078-5504-9
The Right to Be King: The Succession to the Crown of England , 1603-1714
by Howard Nenner
cloth $49.95 ISBN 0807822477 (Out of print)
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic
by R. Kent Newmyer
paper $35.00 ISBN 0-8078-4164-1
The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America
by William J. Novak
paper $24.95 ISBN 0-8078-4611-2
English Common Law in the Age of Mansfield
by James Oldham
cloth $69.95 ISBN 0-8078-2869-6
paper $29.95 ISBN 0-8078-5532-4
The Mansfield Manuscripts and the Growth of English law in the Eighteenth Century
by James Oldham
cloth $250.00 0807820520, 0807843830 (Out of print)
English Law in the Age of the Black Death, 1348-1381: A Transformation of Governance and Law
by Robert C. Palmer
paper $45.00 ISBN 0-8078-4954-5
Selling the Church: The English Parish in Law, Commerce, and Religion, 1350-1550
by Robert C. Palmer
cloth $55.00 ISBN 0-8078-2743-6
The Republic according to John Marshall Harlan
by Linda Przybyszewski
cloth $65.00 ISBN 0-8078-2493-3
paper $21.95 ISBN 0-8078-4789-5
In Defiance of the Law: The Standing-Army Controversy, the Two Constitutions, and the Coming of the American Revolution
by John Phillip Reid
cloth ISBN 0807814490 (Out of print)
Crimes against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York
City, 1880-1960
by Stephen Robertson
cloth $59.95 ISBN 0-8078-2932-3
paper $22.50 ISBN 0-8078-5596-0
Faithful Magistrates and Republican Lawyers: Creators of Virginia Legal Culture, 1680-1810
by A.G. Roeber
cloth $37.50 ISBN 080781461X (Out of print)
Protecting the Best Men: An Interpretive History of the Law of Libel
by Norman L. Rosenberg
cloth $49.95 0807816655 (Out of print)
paper $24.95 (Out of print)
Women and the Law of Property in Early America
by Marylynn Salmon
cloth $32.50 ISBN 0-8078-1687-6 OP
paper $21.95 ISBN 0-8078-4244-
Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law
by Lucy E. Salyer
cloth ISBN 0807822183 (Out of print)
paper $21.95 ISBN 0-8078-4530-2
American Legal Realism and Empirical Social Science
by John Henry Schlegel
paper $59.95 ISBN 0-8078-5753-X (Out of print)
electronic $59.95
Law, Land, and Family: Aristocratic Inheritance in England , 1300 to 1800
by Eileen Spring
paper $21.95 ISBN 0-8078-4642-2
The Transformation of Criminal Justice: Philadelphia , 1800-1880
by Allen Steinberg
cloth $27.50 ISBN 0-8078-1844-5
The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and
American Law and Culture, 1350-1870
by Robert J. Steinfeld
paper $25.00 ISBN 0-8078-5452-2
Law and Politics: The House of Lords as a Judicial Body, 1800-1976
by Robert Stevens
cloth $42.50 ISBN 0807813214 (Out of print)
Law School : Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s
by Robert Stevens
paper $27.50 ISBN 0-8078-4175-7
Transfers of Property in Eleventh-Century Norman law
by Emily Zack Tabuteau
cloth $75.00 ISBN 0807817740 (Out of print)
Inventing the Criminal: A History of German Criminology, 1880-1945
by Richard F. Wetzell
cloth $49.95 ISBN 0-8078-2535-2
Custom, Kinship, and Gifts to Saints: The Laudatio Parentum in Western France , 1050-1150
by Stephen D. White
cloth $39.95 (Out of print)
Sir Edward Coke and “The Grievances of the Commonwealth,” 1621-1628
by Stephen D. White
cloth $45.00 ISBN 0807813354 (Out of print)
The Farmer's Benevolent Trust: Law and Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865-1945
by Victoria Saker Woeste
paper $21.95 ISBN 0-8078-4731-3
Harvard University Press
Executive Privilege: A Constitutional Myth
by Raoul Berger
cloth ISBN 0674274253
Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems
by Raoul Berger
cloth ISBN 0674444752
American Lawyers in a Changing Society, 1776-1876
by Maxwell Bloomfield
The Autobiographical Notes of Charles Evans Hughes
by David J. Danelski and Joseph S. Tulchin
cloth ISBN 0674053257
Jefferson's Louisiana : Politics and the Clash of Legal Traditions
by George Dargo
cloth ISBN 0674473701
Frederick William Maitland: A Life
by C.H.S. Fifoot
cloth ISBN 0674318250
The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860
by Morton J. Horwitz
cloth ISBN 0-674-90370-6
paper ISBN 0-674-90371-4
Prosecuting Crime in the Renaissance: England , Germany , France
by John H. Langbein
cloth ISBN 0674716752
Americanization of the Common Law: The Impact of Legal Change in Massachusetts Society, 1760-1830
by William E. Nelson