Quote: "Legal history or the history of law is the study of how law has evolved and why it has changed. Legal history is closely connected to the development of civilization."
This subfield focuses on the evolution of law and legal systems throughout history.
Ancient Legal Systems: Study of the legal systems in ancient societies such as the Roman Empire, Ancient Greece, and Babylonian civilization.
Common Law: Development of legal principles and practices in England and their spread to other countries, including the United States and Canada.
Civil Law Systems: Origin and development of legal systems based on Roman law, which are in use in continental Europe, Latin America, and other parts of the world.
Constitutional Law: Study of the principles and practices of government as established in a country's constitution and the interpretation and application of those principles by courts.
International Law: Study of the principles and customs that regulate the relationships between states and international organizations, including the United Nations and the World Trade Organization.
Legal Institutions: Study of the organizations and actors involved in the administration of justice, including courts, law enforcement, and legal professions.
Legal Philosophy: Study of the underlying values and principles of law and the ways in which those values and principles are reflected in legal systems and practices.
Legal Theory: Study of the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of legal systems and practices, including the role of law in society and the relationship between law and other social phenomena.
Religious Law: Study of the legal principles and practices of religions such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and their impact on legal systems and practices around the world.
Quote: "Certain jurists and historians of legal process have seen legal history as the recording of the evolution of laws and the technical explanation of how these laws have evolved with the view of better understanding the origins of various legal concepts."
Quote: "Some consider legal history a branch of intellectual history."
Quote: "Twentieth-century historians viewed legal history in a more contextualized manner – more in line with the thinking of social historians."
Quote: "They have looked at legal institutions as complex systems of rules, players and symbols and have seen these elements interact with society to change, adapt, resist or promote certain aspects of civil society."
Quote: "Such legal historians have tended to analyze case histories from the parameters of social-science inquiry, using statistical methods, analyzing class distinctions among litigants, petitioners and other players in various legal processes."
Quote: "By analyzing case outcomes, transaction costs, and numbers of settled cases, they have begun an analysis of legal institutions, practices, procedures, and briefs that gives a more complex picture of law and society."
Quote: "Legal history operates in the wider context of social history."
Quote: "Legal history is the recording of the evolution of laws and the technical explanation of how these laws have evolved with the view of better understanding the origins of various legal concepts."
Quote: "They have looked at legal institutions as complex systems of rules, players, and symbols."
Quote: "Such legal historians have tended to analyze case histories from the parameters of social-science inquiry."
Quote: "They have seen these elements [legal institutions] interact with society to change, adapt, resist or promote certain aspects of civil society."
Quote: "Analyzing class distinctions among litigants, petitioners and other players in various legal processes."
Quote: "Analyzing case outcomes, transaction costs, and numbers of settled cases... gives a more complex picture of law and society."
Quote: "More complex picture of law and society than the study of jurisprudence, case law, and civil codes can achieve."
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Quote: "The study of how law has evolved and why it has changed."
Quote: "Closely connected to the development of civilizations."
Quote: "Legal institutions as complex systems of rules, players, and symbols."
Quote: "Change, adapt, resist or promote certain aspects of civil society."