Networks and Connections in Legal History

Co-edited by Dr Ian Williams (Associate Professor at UCL Laws) and Professor Michael Lobban (Professor of Legal History at LSE).

Book cover of Networks and Connection in Legal History

25 August 2020

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.