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.
Forgotten Hills: Law, Environment, and Social Transformations on the Frontiers of Tibet and China
Wesley B. Chaney
Wesley B. Chaney, Cambridge University Press (Forthcoming September 2026) Forgotten Hills is a book about lost geographies. It is about how the subordination of mountainous Tibet to lowland China meant the erasure of the hills between, and how the legal, environmental, and social transformations of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries hardened boundaries between Tibetan, Chinese, and Muslim peoples, obscuring the histories and practices that had bound hill folk together for generations. Read MoreLegal 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
