Recent Publications

Legal Theory in the Colonies: Hindu and Jewish Scholars under British Rule

Assaf Likhovski

Assaf Likhovski, Cambridge University Press (Forthcoming August 2026) In colonial India and Mandatory Palestine, early-twentieth-century legal scholars made important contributions to the study of the nature of law, particularly by analyzing Hindu and Jewish law – their ancient religious systems. This book reconstructs the lives and ideas of these scholars, revealing a forgotten global wave of jurisprudential innovation that appeared across many territories in the non-Western world. Read More

The Judgment of the Provinces: The Roman Empire and the Origins of Law and Society

Ari Z. Bryen

Ari Z. Bryen, Cambridge University Press (March 2026) Roman law is justly famous, but what was its relationship to governing an empire? In this book, Ari Z. Bryen argues that law, as the learned practice that we know today, emerged from the challenge of governing a diverse and fractious set of imperial subjects. Read More