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Legal history or the history of law is the study of how law has evolved and why it has changed. Legal history is closely connected to the development of civilisations[1] and operates in the wider context of social history. Certain jurists and historians of legal process have seen legal history as the recording of the evolution of laws and the technical explanation of how these laws have evolved with the view of better understanding the origins of various legal concepts; some consider legal history a branch of intellectual history. Twentieth-century historians viewed legal history in a more contextualised manner – more in line with the thinking of social historians.[2] They have looked at legal institutions as complex systems of rules, players and symbols and have seen these elements interact with society to change, adapt, resist or promote certain aspects of civil society. Such legal historians have tended to analyse case histories from the parameters of social-science inquiry, using statistical methods, analysing class distinctions among litigants, petitioners and other players in various legal processes. By analyzing case outcomes, transaction costs, and numbers of settled cases, they have begun an analysis of legal institutions, practices, procedures and briefs that gives a more complex picture of law and society than the study of jurisprudence, case law and civil codes can achieve.[3]
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^"International law – Historical development". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-03-16.
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(1976). Justice, Legal Systems, and Social Structure. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press. Kempin, Jr., Frederick G. (1963). LegalHistory: Law and Social...
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LegalHistory and Legal Theory (German: Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie; formerly Max Planck Institute for European Legal History)...
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