The historical study of law is among the most important domains of global legal scholarship. Indeed, many of the most distinguished academic works on law are historical. And while much scholarly output has focused on textual legal history exploring how legal doctrines, ideas, concepts, principles, and institutions have developed over time in recent years there has also been a sharpened focus on contextual legal history, exploring the interaction and interplay between legal and socio-political change.

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