Machine generated contents note: 1. 'The hypostasis of prophecy': legal realism and legal history Charles Donahue, Jr; 2. Chancery, the Justices and the making of new writs in thirteenth-century England Paul Brand; 3. Copulative complexities: the exception of adultery in medieval dower actions Gwen Seabourne; 4. Arbitration and the legal profession in late medieval England Anthony Musson; 5. Privileges and their application in the main English central courts in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries Susanne Jenks; 6. Trusts litigation in chancery after the Statute of Uses: the first fifty years Neil Jones; 7. The assessment of contractual damages at common law in the late sixteenth century David Ibbetson; 8. The case of Joan Peterson: witchcraft, family conflict, legal invention, and constitutional theory Clive Holmes; 9. Criminal informations of the Attorneys-General in the King's Bench from Egerton to North Henry Mares; 10. Lawyers, merchants, and the law of contract in the long eighteenth century Warren Swain; 11. Creditors and the Feme Covert James Oldham; 12. Legal process as reported in correspondence John Baker; 13. Legal development in Victorian felony trials Phil Handler; 14. Cutting the Gordian Knot? Arbitration and company insolvency in the 1870s Michael Lobban; 15. 'Forty years on': the British Legal History Conference, 1972-2011 Patrick Polden.