Insiders and Outsiders in the History of Law

Writing the history of law involves choices: whose stories are to be told, and how?

While earlier scholarship centered on judges, lawyers, and legislators, recent work increasingly examines the experiences of women, colonial subjects, and gender-nonconforming people, using new sources and methods. Insiders and Outsiders in the History of Lawpresents research on the boundaries between legal insiders and outsiders across seven centuries of British legal history.

Drawing on underused records from contexts ranging from medieval Wales to twentieth-century British India, the chapters explore how individuals became insiders or outsiders, how the law treated them, and how they used legal processes. This book highlights the fluidity of this divide and calls for a more representative legal history.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1911507834
• ISBN13: 9781911507833
• Release Date: December 2026
• Publisher: University of London Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.