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The book discusses the 'state trial' as a legal process, a public spectacle, and a point of political conflict - a key part of how constitutional monarchy becam

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER In the past few decades, legislatures throughout the world have suffered from gridlock. In democracies, laws and policies are just as

This book explores the development and application of the law of treason in England across more than a thousand years, placing this legal history within a broad

This collection brings together historians, political scientists and legal scholars to explore the Anglo-American origins of impeachment and its use in the USA.

On a cold October afternoon in 1678, the Westminster justice of the peace Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey left his home in Charing Cross and never returned. Within hou