The City and the common law : the contribution of London to modern English law / Penny Tucker -- Glanvill continued: a reassessment / Sarah Tullis -- Consanguinity and the common law : "idle ingenuities" in Bracton / Samantha Worby -- The making of English thirteenth-century legislation : some new evidence / Paul Brand -- Thirteenth-century legislation on mortmain alienations in Flanders and its influence upon France and England / Dirk Heirbaut -- Feodo de compedibus vocato le sewet : the medieval prison "oeconomy" / Jonathan Rose -- The trust beneficiary's interest before R. v. Holland / N.G. Jones -- Localism v. centralism : tensions in the administration of tax in nineteenth-century England and America / Chantal Stebbings -- The will theory of contract in the nineteenth century : its influence and its limitations / Warren Swain -- The "creation" of the default judgment in nineteenth-century English procedural reforms / Carla Crifò -- Poor law in the city : a comparative analysis of the successful legal resistance to the implementation of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 in the cities of Chester and Liverpool / Lorie Charlesworth -- The lord chancellor, the poets and the courtesan : public morality and copyright law in the early nineteenth century / Isabella Alexander -- Legal education in England and the German historical school of law in the nineteenth century / Marcel Senn -- Law and India at Kings College London / Paul Mitchell -- Dragging the law into disrepute / Ruth Paley -- What were the principles of nineteenth-century contract law? / Stephen Waddams -- Urban commons : from customary use to community right on Scotlands bleaching greens / Andrea Loux Jarman