Part I: Introducing the Dialogue Between Legal Theory and Legal History
1. Legal Theory and Legal History: Prospects for Dialogue
Michael Lobban
2. Beyond Universality and Particularity, Necessity and Contingency: On Collaboration Between Legal Theory and Legal History
Maks Del Mar
3. Legal Theory and Legal History: A View from Anthropology
Fernanda Pirie
4. Legal Theory and Legal History: Which Legal Theory?
Sionaidh Douglas-ScottPart II: Methodology and Historiography
5. Historicism and Materiality in Legal Theory
Christopher Tomlins
6. Legal Consciousness: A Metahistory
Jonathan Gorman
7. Modelling Law Diachronically: Temporal Variability in Legal Theory
Maks Del Mar
8. Is Comparative Law Necessary for Legal Theory?
John BellPart III: The History of Theory
9. Reading Juristic Theories In and Beyond Historical Context: The Case of Lundstedt’s Swedish Legal Realism
Roger Cotterrell
10. Legal Realism and Natural Law
Dan Priel and Charles Barzun
11. The Role of Rules: Legal Maxims in Early-modern Common Law Principle and Practice
Ian Williams
12. Theory in History: Positivism, Natural Law and Conjectural History in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century English Legal Thought
Michael LobbanPart IV: Uses and Limits of Theory in History
13. Legal History and Legal Theory Shaking Hands: Towards a Gentleman’s Agreement About a Definition of the State
Jean-Louis Halpérin and Pierre Brunet
14. Law, Self-interest, and the Smithian Conscience
Joshua Getzler
15. The Practical Dimension of Legal Reasoning
Stephen Waddams
16. Corrective Justice—An Idea Whose Time Has Gone?
Steve HedleyAfterword
17. How History Bears on Jurisprudence
Brian Z Tamanaha