The future of Aztec law / Jerome A. Offner -- Land and tenure in early colonial Peru : individualizing the Sapci, "that which is common to all" / Susan Elizabeth Ramirez -- The edict of King Galawdewos against the illegal slave trade in Christians : Ethiopia, 1548 / Habtamu Mengistie Tegegne -- Mutilation and the law in early medieval Europe and India : a comparative study / Patricia Skinner -- Common threads : a reappraisal of medieval European sumptuary law / Laurel Ann Wilson -- Toward a history of documents in medieval India : the encounter of scholasticism and regional law in the Smrticandrika / Donald R. Davis Jr. -- Chinese porcelain and the material taxonomies of medieval rabbinic law : encounters with disruptive substances in twelfth-century Yemen / Elizabeth Lambourn and Philip Ackerman Lieberman.