Legal History
Brill’s list in Legal History includes a number of highly regarded book series, journals and online resources. A broad range of topics are covered: from the Legal History of Asia to Islamic Law, and from the classical period to the more recent history.
Take a look at our publication overview below for further reading, and feel free to get in touch with the journal or series editors, or the editors at Brill if you would like to know more about publishing with Brill.
Legal History Library
Series Editors: C.H. (Remco) van Rhee, Dirk Heirbaut, and Matthew C. Mirow
This is a peer-reviewed book series on the history of law in the broadest sense. The aim is to study the historical development of particular areas of law and to explain existing differences and similarities arising in other systems where such comparison is possible.
Grotius Collection Online: Printed Works
This collection consists of 267 printed works by and on the great Dutch humanist and jurist Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), published between 1609-1941, that are kept at the Peace Palace Library in The Hague.
Basilica Online
Justinian's Corpus iuris in the Byzantine world
A fully-searchable online edition of the 17 volumes of the Basilica text and its scholia, as edited between 1945 and 1988 by H.J. Scheltema, D. Holwerda, and N. van der Wal. The Basilica is the single-most important source for Byzantine law throughout the period of the Byzantine empire.
Recent Titles:
Studies in the History of International Law
Series Editor: Randall C.H. Lesaffer
This series publishes books on the history of international law in the broadest possible sense, without any restrictions in terms of geography or chronology. The series includes studies on the law governing relations between independent body politics, from whatever denomination or civilization.
Max Planck Studies in Global Legal History of the Iberian Worlds
Series Editor: Thomas Duve
This Open Access book series is published in conjunction with the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History and deals with legal-historical research on areas that interacted with the Iberian empires during the early modern and modern periods in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa.
RecentTitles:
Editors: Thomas Duve, José Luis Egío, and Christiane Birr
Medieval Law and Its Practice
Series Editor: John Hudson
This series looks at law and its literature, as well as legal practice and its context from the 6th to the 16th centuries. It accepts studies on Roman and canon law, common law, customary law, and Jewish and Islamic law.
Early Modern Natural Law: Studies & Sources
Series Editors: Frank Grunert, Knud Haakonssen, and Diethelm Klippel
Natural law changed its character in the post-Reformation period, mainly because it became an academic discipline. This institutionalisation happened first in Protestant countries but increasingly also in Catholic areas. In the hands of philosophers and jurists rather than theologians the subject served a wide variety of purposes in domestic, colonial, imperial and international politics, in judicial administration, legislation and reform, in social analysis and in the inculcation of social ethics.
Studies in Islamic Law and Society
Series Editors: Ruud Peters, A. Kevin Reinhart, and Nadjma Yassari
This series accommodates monographs, collections of essays, critical editions of texts with annotated translation, and reference works whose subject-matter lies within the field of classical and modern Islamic law.
Mediterranean Reconfigurations
Intercultural Trade, Commercial Litigation, and Legal Pluralism
Series Editors: Wolfgang Kaiser and Guillaume Calafat
Encounters of Muslim, Jewish, Armenian and Protestant merchants and sailors with legal customs and judicial practices different from their own gave rise to legal and cultural creativity throughout the Mediterranean over a long period (15th - 19th centuries). Through the prism of commercial litigation, the series offers an understanding of the practices of intercultural trade, in a context shaped by legal pluralism and multiple and overlapping spaces of jurisdiction.
Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Görres-Gesellschaft
Neue Folge
Series Editors: Alexander Hollerbach, Hans Maier, and Paul Mikat
Grotiana
A Journal published under the auspices of the Grotiana Foundation
Editors-in-Chief: Hans Blom and Mark Somos
Grotiana provides a forum for exchanges concerning the philosophical, ethical and legal fundamentals of the search for an international order.
Brill has more titles available on the great Dutch humanist and jurist Hugo Grotius (1583-1645)
An interdisciplinary journal on the history of international law with a broad outreach. It is placed among the top international law journals which are regularly consulted by all international lawyers with a general interest in the history of their field. It provides a forum for the emerging and expanding scholarship that takes a historical approach to exploring a wide range of issues in international law.
Recent Titles:
