"Legal history is the study of how law has evolved and why it has changed. Legal history is closely connected to the development of civilizations and operates in the wider context of social history."
This Political History studies the evolution and impact of laws, legal systems, and judicial decisions on politics and governance.
"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."
"Some consider legal history a branch of intellectual history."
"Twentieth-century historians viewed legal history in a more contextualized manner – more in line with the thinking of social historians."
"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."
"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."
"They have begun an analysis of legal institutions, practices, procedures, and briefs that gives a more complex picture of law and society than the study of jurisprudence, case law, and civil codes can achieve."
"The technical explanation of how these laws have evolved with the view of better understanding the origins of various legal concepts."
"Legal history is closely connected to the development of civilizations and operates in the wider context of social history."
"They have seen these elements interact with society to change, adapt, resist, or promote certain aspects of civil society."
"Using statistical methods, analyzing class distinctions among litigants, petitioners, and other players in various legal processes."
"Analyzing case outcomes, transaction costs, and numbers of settled cases."
"Legal history gives a more complex picture of law and society than the study of jurisprudence, case law, and civil codes can achieve."
"They have begun an analysis of legal institutions, practices, procedures, and briefs."
"Legal institutions are seen as complex systems of rules, players, and symbols."
"The purpose is to better understand the origins of various legal concepts."
"Legal history is the recording of the evolution of laws."
"Legal historians view legal processes as complex systems of rules, players, and symbols."
"Legal history operates in the wider context of social history."
"They have looked at legal institutions as complex systems of rules, players, and symbols and have seen these elements interact with society."