Publication details
Lobban, Michael and Williams, Ian (2020) (eds.) Network and Connections in Legal History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Publication summary
Network and Connections in Legal History examines networks of lawyers, legislators and litigators, and how they shaped legal development in Britain and the world. It explores how particular networks of lawyers shaped the culture of the forums in which they operated, and how personal connections could be crucial in pressuring the legislature to institute reform - as with twentieth century feminist campaigns. It explores the transmission of legal ideas; what happened to those ideas was not predetermined, but when new connections were made, they could assume a new life.
The volume is a collection of papers from the British Legal History Conference 2017, which was hosted by UCL Laws.
Find out more on the Cambridge University Press website.