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OK Computer? The digital turn in legal history: a methodological retrospective

Tijdschrift Voor Rechtsgeschiedenis-revue D Histoire Du Droit-the Legal History Review, 2021
This article reviews some of the main debates on methodology in legal history since the Second World War, engages in a dialogue with the social sciences and finally discusses the digital turn in law and legal history, focusing on network analysis.
Florenz Volkaert
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Introduction to English Legal History

, 2019
This book provides a concise introduction to the history of the main institutions and doctrines of English law, from the earliest times to the present. It retains the structure of the fourth edition (2003) but has been heavily revised to take account of ...
J. Baker
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Review of Legal History

Social and Legal Studies, 2019
It seems almost customary for state of the fields to reference, if not start with, a claimed sense of malaise in the field (Leckey, 2017: 6; Valverde, 2017: 325). For legal history, however, the neuroses are different.
Sarah E. Hamill
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The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History

Oxford Handbooks Online, 2018
The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History charts the landscape of contemporary research and the shift from national legal histories to comparative methods, which have profoundly affected the way we understand legal transformation at the local ...
Heikki Pihlajamäki, M. Dubber, M. Godfrey   +2 more
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Merging Comparative Law and Legal History: Towards an Integrated Discipline

The American journal of comparative law, 2018
This Article argues that legal history and comparative law ought to merge into one discipline. The two disciplines are both products of the same period, the late nineteenth century, when they were formed as the fruit of the rising positivist legal ...
Heikki Pihlajamäki
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The Oxford Handbook of Legal History

, 2018
Drawing on scholarship from around the world, and representing a variety of methodological approaches, areas of expertise, and research agendas, this compendium takes stock of legal history and methodology and reflects on the various modes of historical ...

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Legal History and The Material Turn

Oxford Handbooks Online, 2018
This chapter considers the implications of the ‘material turn’ in the humanities and social sciences for the study and writing of legal history. It suggests three paths forward for how legal historians might incorporate these insights into their research.
T. Johnson
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Legal History

2023
Abstract Chapter 6 discusses the nature of Drako’s laws, including in particular the law on justifiable homicide, the range and nature of the laws of Solon, and subsequent legal changes.
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Legal History as Doctrinal History

2018
Abstract This chapter investigates the idea of doctrine as a focus of historical scholarship, asking how the doctrinal mentality arose, and how historical approaches to doctrine emerged strongly in both common-law and civilian or Romanistic legal cultures. It first defines the meaning of ‘doctrine’, and sets out a guiding thesis.
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Legal history

This chapter examines how legal history researchers apply a range of methods to provide insights into the mechanisms and dynamics of legal change. A distinction is commonly drawn between internal and external legal history, but it is not always easy to categorise research neatly into either category.
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