Essays on CRIMINAL LAW: An Enlightened Shadow? Elements of the Intellectual Climate at the Time of the Codification of the Criminal Law of Malta. Common Law Contributions to the Maltese Rendition of the French Penal Code: Preliminary Observations Essays on COSTITUTIONAL HISTORY: Amabile Bonello's Essay on the Public Law of Malta J.J. Dillon's 1807 Memoir on Malta Constitutional Law as History REVIEWS: Understanding Giovanni Bonello: The Most Important Book of the Decade 'Intriguing aspects of Maltese legal history', Review of Essays in Maltese Legal History and Comparative Law Volume 1 by Giuseppe Mifsud Bonnici

This is a book about intriguing aspects of Maltese legal history. Malta is a hybrid Common Law-Civil Law system. The book carries the following essays: 1. Judicial Importation into Maltese Law of Italian Private Law Solutions and Its Implications 2. Historical Facts and Myths surrounding the Criminal Code of Malta 3. Medieval (Legal) Beasts in our Midst? A Terminological Ad Fontes Look at the Dissolution of Contracts under Maltese Law 4. Latin Wine Decanted into a Semitic Carafe: The Obscure Term "Midheb" in Vassalli's Lexicon and its Possible Usefulness for the Legal Historian

This book provides a detailed constitutional history of Malta during the first part of British rule, from initial occupation in 1800 to 1914, with an Epilogue bringing the story to Independence in 1964.