Upcoming Publications

This series aims to publish the highest quality work in legal history by both junior and senior scholars. Our goal is to produce monographs that take a variety of methodological and theoretical approaches, but always with respect for historical and legal change. The series is dedicated to the understanding of law as both a product of and contributor to history.

The Nation at Sea: The Federal Courts and American Sovereignty, 1789–1825

Kevin Arlyck

Kevin Arlyck, Cambridge University Press (August 2025) The Nation at Sea tells a new story about the federal judiciary, and about the early United States itself. Most accounts of the nation’s transformation from infant republic to world power ignore the courts. Read More

Court, Credit, and Capital: Amsterdam’s Insolvency Legislation in the Dutch Golden Age

Maurits den Hollander

Maurits den Hollander, Cambridge University Press (August 2025) Seventeenth-century Amsterdam was a city of innovations. Explosive economic growth, the expansion of overseas trade, and a high level of religious tolerance sparked great institutional, socioeconomic and legal changes, a period generally known as ‘the Dutch Golden Age.’ Read More