Cambridge University Press has just published Anthony Musson and Chantal Stebblings (eds), Making legal history: approaches and methodologies (2012).
The book is largely drawn from the British Legal History Conference held in Exeter in 2009. It also includes, however, David Ibbetson's 'Comparative legal history: a methodology', originally delivered at the European Society of Comparative Legal History (ESCLH)'s inaugural conference held in Valencia in 2010. It also includes several other ESCLH members.
The volume is described as:
Drawing together leading legal historians from a range of jurisdictions and cultures, this collection of essays addresses the fundamental methodological underpinning of legal history research. Via a broad chronological span and a wide range of topics, the contributors explore the approaches, methods and sources that together form the basis of their research and shed light on the complexities of researching into the history of the law. By exploring the challenges posed by visual, unwritten and quasi-legal sources, the difficulties posed by traditional archival material and the novelty of exploring the development of legal culture and comparative perspectives, the book reveals the richness and dynamism of legal history research.
The book is largely drawn from the British Legal History Conference held in Exeter in 2009. It also includes, however, David Ibbetson's 'Comparative legal history: a methodology', originally delivered at the European Society of Comparative Legal History (ESCLH)'s inaugural conference held in Valencia in 2010. It also includes several other ESCLH members.
The volume is described as:
Drawing together leading legal historians from a range of jurisdictions and cultures, this collection of essays addresses the fundamental methodological underpinning of legal history research. Via a broad chronological span and a wide range of topics, the contributors explore the approaches, methods and sources that together form the basis of their research and shed light on the complexities of researching into the history of the law. By exploring the challenges posed by visual, unwritten and quasi-legal sources, the difficulties posed by traditional archival material and the novelty of exploring the development of legal culture and comparative perspectives, the book reveals the richness and dynamism of legal history research.
Contents
- Introduction Anthony Musson and Chantal Stebbings
- Reflections on 'doing' legal history - Sir John Baker
- Editing law reports and doing legal history: compatible or incompatible projects - Paul Brand
- The indispensability of manuscript case notes to eighteenth-century barristers and judges - James Oldham
- Judging the judges: the reputations of nineteenth century judges and their sources - Patrick Polden
- Benefits and barriers: the making of Victorian legal history - Chantal Stebbings
- The historical turn in late nineteenth-century American legal thought - David M. Rabban
- The methodological debates in German speaking Europe (1960–1990) - Marcel Senn
- Exploring the minds of lawyers: the duty of the legal historian to write the books of non-written law - Dirk Heirbaut
- Comparative legal history: a methodology - David Ibbetson
- 'They put to the torture all the ancient monuments': reflections on making eighteenth-century Irish legal history - Sean Donlan
- The politics of historiography and the taxonomies of the colonial past: law, history and the tribes - Paul McHugh
- Lay legal history - Wilf Prest
- Antiquarianism and legal history - Michael Stuckey
- Re-examining King John and Magna Carta: reflections on reasons, methodology and methods - Jane Frecknall-Hughes
- Visual sources: mirror of justice or 'through a glass darkly'? - Anthony Musson
- Sanctity, superstition and the death of Sarah Jacob - Richard Ireland.
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