Norma Landau is Professor of History at the University of California at Davis and the author of The Justices of the Peace, 1679-1760, published by the University of California Press in 1984.
1. Introduction Norma Landau; Part I. Law: 2. Dread of the Crown Office:
the magistracy and King's Bench 1740-1800 Douglas Hay; 3. The trading
justice's trade Norma Landau; 4. Impressment and the law in
eighteenth-century Britain Nicholas Rogers; Part II. Crime: 5. 'Press gangs
are better magistrates than the Middlesex justices.' Young offenders, press
gangs and prosecution strategies in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century
England Peter King; 6. Making the 'bloody code'? Forgery legislation in
eighteenth-century England Randall McGowen; 7. Mapping the criminal law:
Blackstone and the categories of English jurisprudence David Lieberman;
Part III. Society: 8. After Somerset: Mansfield, slavery and the law in
England, 1772-1830 Ruth Paley; 9. Religion and the law: evidence, proof and
'matter of fact' 1660-1700 Barbara Shapiro; 10. The press and public
apologies in eighteenth-century London Donna Andrew; 11. Origins of the
factory acts: the Health and Morals of Apprentices Act 1802 Joanna Innes.
