Product Description: A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence is the first ever multivolume treatment of the issues in legal philosophy and general jurisprudence, from both a theoretical and a historical perspective. The work is aimed at jurists as well as legal and practical philosophers...read more

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Product Description: The essays in Communities and Courts in Britain, 1150-1900 all reflect the wider concept of legal history - how legal processes fitted into the social and political life of the community and how courts and other legal processes were used by contemporaries...read more

Product Description: Legal history has usually been written in terms of writs and legislation, and the development of legal doctrine. Christopher Brooks, in this series of essays roughly half of which are previously unpublished, approaches the law from two different angles: the uses made of courts and the fluctuations in the fortunes of the legal profession...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This study of the famous political trials of the 1970s in South Africa traces the extraordinary steps by which the now dismantled system of apartheid sought to employ the legal sanctions to prosecute its campaign against its opponents, the ANC, the National Union of South African Students, the Black People's Convention and the South African Students Organizations. This text should be of interest to political scientists, legal and political theorists, historians, lawyers concerned with human rights, freedom of speech and the history of organized opposition to Apartheid.