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Introduction / Peter Coss
The language of law in Classical Athens / S.C. Todd
The autonomy of Roman Law / Andrew D.E. Lewis
Local participation and legal ritual in early medieval law courts / Wendy Davies
Due process versus the maintenance of order in European law: the contribution of the ius commune / Paul Hyams
Inside the courtroom: lawyers, litigants and justices in England in the later middle ages / Paul Brand
'Nemo mortalis cognitus vivit in evo': moral and legal conflicts in a Florentine inheritance case of 1442 / Thomas Kuehn
Law, litigants and the construction of 'honour': slander suits in early modern England / Martin Ingram
Story-telling and the social imagery of religious conflict in nineteenth-century French law courts / Caroline Ford
'Their idea of justice is so peculiar': Southern Rhodesia 1890-1910 / Diana Jeater
Kenyatta's trials: breaking and making an African nationalist / John Lonsdale
Conclusion / Chris Wickham.
The language of law in Classical Athens / S.C. Todd
The autonomy of Roman Law / Andrew D.E. Lewis
Local participation and legal ritual in early medieval law courts / Wendy Davies
Due process versus the maintenance of order in European law: the contribution of the ius commune / Paul Hyams
Inside the courtroom: lawyers, litigants and justices in England in the later middle ages / Paul Brand
'Nemo mortalis cognitus vivit in evo': moral and legal conflicts in a Florentine inheritance case of 1442 / Thomas Kuehn
Law, litigants and the construction of 'honour': slander suits in early modern England / Martin Ingram
Story-telling and the social imagery of religious conflict in nineteenth-century French law courts / Caroline Ford
'Their idea of justice is so peculiar': Southern Rhodesia 1890-1910 / Diana Jeater
Kenyatta's trials: breaking and making an African nationalist / John Lonsdale
Conclusion / Chris Wickham.