This collection of essays provides benefits to legal theorists and legal historians, and choristers and non-choristers, alike. The collection achieves the editors’ aim of extolling the virtues of considering the lessons that can be shared between legal theory and legal history.

- Paul Burgess Doctoral candidate, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Law Review

... an excellent and thought-provoking book ... a range of considerations and practical difficulties bringing theory and history together are well problematized and explored in a number of chapters. The reader finishes this book with a sense of the potential for interdisciplinary research both between theory and history, and with wider disciplines. One is left with the feeling that interdisciplinary researchers now have some additional material to add to their arsenal, and should feel bolstered in their belief that legal theory and history are excellent bedfellows.

- Cerian Charlotte Griffiths, Lancaster University, The Journal of Legal History

It is a complex volume and encompasses a number of different understandings of what a renewed rapport between legal theory and history might entail, but its most compelling claim is that there were not two schools of jurisprudence or legal theory in the twentieth-century, but three: as well as positivism and natural law, there was the “historical” school.

- Tim Rogan, The Cambridge Law Journal