The Evolution of Law and the State in Europe: Seven Lessons

Now available in paperback! Most books about public power and the state deal with their subject from the point of view of legal theory, sociology, or political science. This book, without claiming to deliver a comprehensive theory of law and state, aims to inform by offering a fresh reading of history and institutions, particularly as they have developed in continental Europe and European political and legal science. Drawing on a remarkably wide range of sources from both Western and Eastern Eur…