Money in the Western Legal Tradition

Oxford University Press has published the Money in the Western Legal Tradition: Middle Ages to Bretton Woods edited by Dr David Fox and Wolfgang Ernst.

The book tells a connected history of the monetary laws of the European civil law and Anglo-American common law systems from the late medieval period through to the middle of the twentieth century. The book draws together the work of 28 numismatists, and legal and economic historians from Europe, Great Britain and North America. It develops the first distinctively legal history of money across Western legal systems and its role in secondary market transactions.

Money in the Western Legal Tradition grew out of a research project funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung in 2011, and is the result of seven years of planning, research and writing.

For more information about this book, please refer to the OUP website. For information about other publications by Dr Fox, see his Faculty Profile.