Global Legal History

Joshua C. Tate is Professor of Law at Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law (Dallas, Texas, USA). He has been a visiting faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania Law School (Spring 2008), a Lloyd M. Robbins Senior Research Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley (Fall 2012), and a visiting scholar at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (Summer 2018). His research and teaching focus on legal history, property, and trusts and estates. From 2013 to 2015, he gave a series of more than sixty lectures in North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe in commemoration of the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta. He is currently engaged in a study of the development of property rights and remedies in medieval England, focusing on the issues of jurisdictional conflict with regard to rights of presentation to churches.

This collection brings together a group of international legal historians to further scholarship in different areas of comparative and regional legal history. Authors are drawn from Europe, Asia, and the Americas to produce new insights into the relationship between law and society across time and space.

1: List of figures; 2: List of tables; 3: List of contributors; 4: Global comparative legal history: an introduction; 5: Part I: Legal history and legal culture across borders; 6: Sincerity Based Proper Relationship: Socrates and Confucius; 7: Legal Development from a Comparative Perspective: English contract law in the nineteenth century; 8: Legal history and comparative perspective: a study of the Cuban experience; 9: Bar associations and the circulation of legal knowledge: Argentina and Brazil, 1917-1943; 10: Part II: Constitutional experiences in global perspective; 11: Lessons from the History of Courts on the Review of Constitutional Amendments in Colombia; 12: The Revolutionary Constitution of 1917 in Mexico: From Individual Guarantees to Social Rights, 1917-1928; 13: Presidential Impeachments in Brazil: Lessons from the Past and Challenges for the Future; 14: Part III: History of judicial experiences; 15: Exclusion and Inclusion of the French Law on Neighboring Plots of Land in the Civil Codes of Francophone Switzerland, Louisiana, and Quebec: Reflections on the Relation between Law and Society; 16: A Legal-Historical Chronicle of Rule-of-Law Narratives in Hong Kong; 17: Justice in the Ibero-American World in the Enlightenment Era; 18: Family Courts and Violence against Women in Guatemala, 1964-1996; 19: Index