Hart Publishing - Legal History 2019

ORDER ONLINE www.hartpublishing.co.uk Law and Society in England 1750-1950 William Cornish, Steve Banks, Charles Mitchell, Paul Mitchell and Rebecca Probert Law and Society in England 1750-1950 has become an indispensible text for those wishing to study English legal history and to understand the foundations of the modern British state. In this new updated edition the authors explore the complex relationship between legal and social change. They consider the ways in which those in power themselves imagined and initiated reform and the ways in which they were obliged to respond to demands for change from outside the legal and political classes. What emerges is a lively and critical account of the evolution of modern rights and expectations and an engaging study of the formation of contemporary institutions and the road that was travelled to create them. The book is divided into eight chapters: Institutions and Ideas; Land; Commerce and Industry; Labour Relations; The Family; Poverty and Education; Accidents and Crime. This extensively referenced analysis of modern legal history will be invaluable to students and teachers of the law alike, as well as political scientists and historians. William Cornish was Professor of English Law at the London School of Economics and Political science, then Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge. Steve Banks is a Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Forum for Legal and Historical Research at the University of Reading. Charles Mitchell is a Professor of Law and Paul Mitchell is a Professor of Law, both at University College London. Rebecca Probert is Professor of Law at the University of Warwick. Oct 2019 | 720pp | Pbk | 9781849462730 | RSP: £39.99 New Edition Women’s Legal Landmarks Celebrating the history of women and law in the UK and Ireland Edited by Erika Rackley and Rosemary Auchmuty Women’s Legal Landmarks commemorates the centenary of women’s admission in 1919 to the legal profession in the UK and Ireland by identifying key legal landmarks in women’s legal history. Over 80 authors write about landmarks that represent a significant achievement or turning point in women’s engagement with law and law reform. The landmarks cover a wide range of topics, including matrimonial property, the right to vote, prostitution, surrogacy and assisted reproduction, rape, domestic violence, FGM, equal pay, abortion, image-based sexual abuse, and the ordination of women bishops, as well as the life stories of women who were the first to undertake key legal roles and positions. Together the landmarks offer a scholarly intervention in the recovery of women’s lost history and in the development of methodology of feminist legal history as well as a demonstration of women’s agency and activism in the achievement of law reform and justice. Erika Rackley is a Professor of Law at the University of Kent. Rosemary Auchmuty is a Professor of Law at the University of Reading. Dec 2018 | 704pp | Hbk | 9781782259770 | RSP: £95

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