Legal history

Legal history or the history of law is the study of how law has evolved and why it has changed. Legal history is closely connected to the development...

The legal profession has its origins in ancient Greece and Rome. Although in Greece it was forbidden to take payment for pleading the cause of another...

published orally in open court. The witnesses must be idonei, or free from legal disability. For instance, women and slaves were not good witnesses. The...

The history of the American legal profession covers the work, training, and professional activities of lawyers from the colonial era to the present. Lawyers...

The legal history of France is commonly divided into three periods: that of the old French law (Ancien Droit), that of the Revolutionary or intermediary...

Western law comprises the legal traditions of Western culture, with roots in Roman law and canon law. As Western culture shares a Graeco-Roman Classical...

In 1931 the first supreme court was established. Though the contemporary legal system and laws have no direct links to traditional Chinese law, their impact...

Malaysian legal history has been determined by events spanning a period of some six hundred years. Of these, three major periods were largely responsible...

In the United States, increased restrictions and labeling of cannabis (legal term marijuana or marihuana) as a poison began in many states from 1906 onward...

Gruyter. pp. 497–. ISBN 978-3-11-081206-0. Hathaway, Andrew (2009). "The Legal History and Cultural Experience of Cannabis". Here to Help. Here to Help. Retrieved...

American Society for Legal History is a learned society dedicated to promoting scholarship and teaching in the field of legal history. It was founded in...

International legal theory Judicial activism Justice Law and economics Law and literature Legal formalism Legal history Legalism Legal pluralism Legal positivism...

Wolfe, ed. Readings in American Legal History (2001) 540pp Johnson, Herbert A. American legal and constitutional history: cases and materials (2001) 733...

In law, a legal person is any person or 'thing' (less ambiguously, any legal entity) that can do the things a human person is usually able to do in law...

response to legal formalism, and builds on scattered uses of legal-historical comparison since antiquity. It uses the techniques of legal history and comparative...

shapes politics, economics, history and society in various ways and also serves as a mediator of relations between people. Legal systems vary between jurisdictions...

were successful in having abortion bans repealed. While abortion remains legal in most of the West, this legality is regularly challenged by anti-abortion...

The legal rights of women refers to the social and human rights of women. One of the first women's rights declarations was the Declaration of Sentiments...

area of specialism. Bullying in the legal profession History of the legal profession History of the American legal profession Jurist Civil law notary Notary...

erstwhile British Raj remained in force. At no point in Pakistan's legal history was there an intention to begin the statute book afresh. The founder...