Foreword – Legal History Turns

Foreword: Socio-legal studies and the humanities

This paper introduces a symposium on socio-legal studies and the humanities, justifying the originality of a dedicated special issue on this topic. The paper identifies and critically examines themes and problems in the literature before introducing the articles in the symposium and, finally, discussing areas for future research. Oneof the defining characteristics of socio-legal studies is to l...

Foreword: Wireless Communication—History and Visions

How did we arrive at our current state of tHe art? Pre-Cellular Mobile Telephony In order to understand where we're going, we need to understand how we arrived at today's state of the art. The notion of reliable mobile telephone service was first introduced in the 1950's. The first widely deployed system was developed by AT&T Bell Laboratories in the United States and referred to as Mobile Tele...

Legal medicine in history

enthusiast's reading of the literature. It might be more accurate to suggest that Wellcome had an inordinate respect for scholarship (which for him always meant "scientific" study) rather than thwarted talents in this regard. Interestingly he appears to have been less directive of the scientific work closer to his own field which was carried out for the business or at the innovative research in...

Foreword: Diversity in the Legal Profession: A Comparative Perspective

Foreword, Symposium, The Legal Profession: The Impact of law and Legal Theory