Public law.

Brill Academic Publishers (Boston, MA) has published "Introduction to Public Law," a new volume that offers a historical and comparative introduction to public law. The book examines the origins of the res publica to Roman law and analyzes the course of its development in monarchial continental Europe and England, as well as during the republican age that began with the American and French revolutions. For each period and state, the volume analyzes the major concepts of public law and their transformations, including sovereignty, the state, the statute, the separation of powers, the public interest and administrative justice. The book costs $114.