Edited by Stanley N. Katz
The
Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History, edited by Stanley N. Katz, is the first encyclopedia of law to provide both historical and contemporary comparisons of the world legal systems. A truly international and interdisciplinary reference work, the
Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History covers legal history from ancient to modern times. Approximately 1,000 articles explore the traditions of Ancient Greek Law, Ancient Roman Law, Medieval Roman Law, Chinese Law, English Common Law, Islamic Law, United States Law, and the laws of such other regions as Africa, Latin America, and South Asia. Major categories of law explained in detail include private law (contract, tort, civil procedure), public law (statutory, criminal, etc.), and higher or constitutional law.
Using statutes and administrative rulings, judicial decisions, and descriptions of legislatures, agencies, and courts, the
Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History offers a clear background on geographically distinctive laws, their origins, and their consequences throughout world history.
Stanley N. Katz is a Professor of Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, the author of
Colonial America, Essays in Politics and Social Development and Constitutionalism and Democracy: Transitions in the Contemporary World, and editor of
The History of the Supreme Court of the United States: The Birth of the Modern Constitution, 1941-1953.
e-reference edition ISBN: 9780195336511
Print edition ISBN: 9780195134056
Print edition publication date: 2009
Publishing history: First published 2009
Copyright: © Oxford University Press 2009
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