Margaret McGlynn examines legal education at the Inns of Court in the late fifteenth/early sixteenth century.

Examines how medieval people at all social levels thought about law, justice and politics, as well as their role in society. Provides a clear, structured view of judicial developments and experience of litigation in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Offers a new perspective on both law and politics by focusing on the medium of legal consciousness and legal culture.. Makes the specialised area of law accessible for the general reader interested in the medieval period.

Comprehensive study of the early modern inns of court, based on original sources, now revised and updated with recent scholarship.

New Medieval Literatures is an annual containing the best new interdisciplinary work in medieval textual cultures.

Natural-law theory grounds human laws in universal truths of God’s creation. The task of the judicial system was to build an edifice of positive law on natural law’s foundations. R. H. Helmholz shows how lawyers and judges made and interpreted natural law arguments in the West, and concludes that historically it has advanced the cause of justice.