The Saint Louis University Center for Religious and Legal History is a research center devoted to advancing the study of the historical relationships between religion and law. Regardless of confession ...

Bowie knives are back in constitutional law news these days, after a very long absence. The U.S. Supreme Court's Bruen decision instructs lower courts to look to U.S. legal history to see what sorts ...

Before 1900, was there a legal history in America of prohibiting particular types of arms? Yes, but it is very short. The far more common policy for controversial arms, such as Bowie knives or ...

Bruce H. Mann is the Carl F. Schipper, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He studies legal history, with a focus on the intersections among legal, economic, and social change in the 17th and ...

Our interests cover several different jurisdictions, from Scotland to Australia, but we are also very conscious of our location in a city with its own important place in the history of law. While ...

You’ll start your first semester in the School of Law, where you'll gain hands-on, professional experience while taking courses such as Criminal Law; Civil Procedure and Law; and Legislation and ...

The Law of the Twelve Tables found in the Collection of Bibliothèque Nationale de France.Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images The rule of law, democracy and human rights: these are the ...

Legal and constitutional history is studied by historians and by lawyers, but students often consider it a difficult, “dry” branch of the discipline. Yet it is always important to understand the ...

A three-volume book on the history of Chinese jurisprudence was recently released, highlighting the country's focus and efforts in strengthening the basic subject of law, legal experts said. While ...