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Hostettler has written twenty five books on legal history; current issues such as breaches of the rule of law and trial by jury; and biographies. His literary career began in 1992 when he transformed his first PhD thesis into the book, "The
Politics of Criminal Law Reform in the Nineteenth Century."
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September 1947 and remained a lawyer for thirty-five years. He established his own practice in West London in 1958 and had offices in Ealing, Southall and Covent Garden during his career. He also undertook political and civil liberties cases in
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His legal history books include histories of criminal justice and the abolition of capital punishment. He has also written about voting in
Britain (with Brian Block.) and he was nominated for the Orwell Prize in 2013 for “Dissenters, Radicals, Heretics and Blasphemers.”
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Holborn, London. During the Second World War, he volunteered, in 1943, as a Bevin Boy and remained in the South Wales Coalfield for three years.
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