Epidemics and the Law from Plague to the Present

Emily Gordon is Lecturer in Law at University College London, UK.Charles Mitchell is Professor of Law at University College London, UK.Ian Williams is Associate Professor of Law at University College London, UK.

• Part I. Introduction1. Socio-Legal Histories of Infectious Disease, Emily Gordon (University of Cambridge, UK), Charles Mitchell (University College London, UK) and Ian Williams (University of Oxford, UK)Part II. Direct Regulatory Responses to Infectious Disease2. Central and Local Legal Responses to the Plague of 1603, Joe Sampson (University of Cambridge, UK)3. Epidemic Extraterritoriality and Border Prophylaxis in Western Europe, 1780–1850, Alex Chase-Levenson (Binghamton University, State University of New York, USA)4. Frontline Powers and the Uses of the Law: Official Authority, Public Trust, and Public Health in England, c 1850–1910, Tom Crook (Oxford Brookes University, UK)5. Revisiting Disease in Immigration Law: Colonial and Commonwealth Histories, Alison Bashford (University of New South Wales, Australia)6. Old Laws, New Logics: Medical Management at Britain’s Borders 1962-1988, Roberta Bivins (Warwick University, UK)7. Values and Infectious Disease Regulation in 20th Century England and Wales: The Cases of Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, Janet Weston (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK)Part III. Longer-term Legal and Social Consequences of Infectious Disease8. Centralisation of Labour Regulation in Response to the Black Death: The Statute of Labourers and Contract Law, Lorren Eldridge (University of Cambridge, UK)9. Property Disputes about Leper Houses, Pest Houses and Fever Hospitals, Jonathan Garton (Warwick University, UK) and Charles Mitchell (University College London, UK)10. The Taxation of Proprietary Medicines and the Regulation of Poisons in Nineteenth-century Britain, Chantal Stebbings (University of Exeter, UK)11. Private Offence, Public Wrong: Prosecuting Disease Transmission by Medical Professionals in Nineteenth-century England, Katherine D Watson (Oxford Brookes University, UK)