Well after the process of codification had begun elsewhere in nineteenth-century Europe, ancient Roman law remained in use in Germany, expounded by brilliant scholars and applied in both urban and rural courts.
How to regulate the transfer of wealth from one generation to the next has been hotly debated among politicians, legal scholars, sociologists, economists, and philosophers for centuries.
For half a century before 1937, populists, progressives, and labor leaders complained bitterly that a "e;judicial oligarchy"e; impeded social and economic reform by imposing crippling restraints on trade unions and nullifying legislation that regulated business corporations.
In this volume of essays a group of scholars from Europe, Japan, the Republic of China, and the United States examines China's legal tradition to determine its importance for the study of both pre-modern China and of contemporary affairs.
By comparing the constitutional systems of Israel and the United States, Gary Jacobsohn provides a new view of the essentials of constitutionalism itself--a balanced picture that would have been impossible to achieve by focusing on any one polity.
The evolution of China's legal tradition was one of the most striking aspects of the transformation of Chinese civilization under Mongolian domination.
This book studies major works of literature from classical antiquity to the present that reflect crises in the evolution of Western law: the move from a prelegal to a legal society in The Eumenides, the Christianization of Germanic law in Njal's Saga, the disenchantment with medieval customary law in Reynard the Fox, the reception of Roman law in a variety of Renaissance texts, the conflict between law and equity in Antigone and The Merchant of Venice, the eighteenth-century codification controversy in the works of Kleist, the modern debate between "e;pure"e; and "e;free"e; law in Kafka's The Trial and other fin-de-siecle works, and the effects of totalitarianism, the theory of universal guilt, and anarchism in the twentieth century.
WINNER of 75th Nation al Jew ish Book Award: BiographyFinalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize 2026 FIVE STARS Magnificent Telegraph Compulsively readable Financial Times Gripping and timely The Times'Crackingly told' Philippe Sands'A kind of masterclass' Sebastian JungerTHE NEW BOOK FROM THE BESTSELLING, COSTA PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE VOLUNTEERThe true story of a Jewish lawyer who returned to Germany after WWII to prosecute war crimes, only to find himself pitted against a nation determined to bury the past.
JAVA, JUSTICE, AND THE SOUL OF INDONESIAA Lawyer's Guide to Culture, Law, and the Hopes of His Nation"e;When the law doesn't speak enough, culture will answer.
Introduction to Indonesian Law: Foundations and Transformation in the Digital and Globalization Era provides a comprehensive overview of Indonesia's legal system, tracing its historical roots, foundational principles, and dynamic transformations in the face of rapid technological change and global interconnectedness.
A Waterstones Best History Book 2024'Compulsively readable' - Times Literary Supplement'An outstanding work' - Philippa Gregory'A powerful narrative told with frankness and sensitivity' - Helen Fry, historian and author of Women In Intelligence'A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more they are beaten, the better they'll be.
Die Kolner Synodalstatuten des Spatmittelalters (1261-1513) sind eine wertvolle Quelle fur die Rechts- und Frommigkeitsgeschichte einer der bedeutendsten Diozesen Europas.
Using contemporary documents, police files, Home Office papers and newspaper reports, 'Jack the Ripper: The Facts' recreates the notorious crimes and police investigation of 1888 to provide the best available overview of the 'Great Victorian Mystery', the greatest unsolved, true crime story of all time.
Don Eugenio Montero Ríos (1832-1914) es una de las figuras más destacadas, que, haciendo su pública aparición política en la Constituyente de 1869, nacida de la Revolución "gloriosa" del año anterior, que destronó a Isabel II, transitaría por el período de la Restauración canovista posterior al sexenio democrático.
Variadas incursiones en los campos humanisticos del Derecho politico y constitucional, del Derecho romano e Historia del Derecho, de la Filosofia juridica, de la Antropologia y del Pensamiento politico son el objeto de los diez opusculos que se incluyen en este libro; ejercicios de diferente extension y enjundia producidos a lo largo de un dilatado lapso temporal.
Carlo Schmid esta en la historia por haber sido un cualificado padre de la Ley Fundamental de Bonn, en cuyos debates intervino como catedratico y como dirigente del Partido Socialdemocrata de Alemania.
Hace casi un siglo comenzo a aparecer una idea en manuales y estudios monograficos dedicados a la teoria de la intervencion delictiva: autor seria el que domina un hecho (propio) y participe quien interviene en un hecho (ajeno).
Thema des Buches ist die Verfassungsgeschichte zweier Staaten, die beide die Bezeichnung "e;Osterreich"e; in ihrem Namen fuhren: Die osterreichisch-ungarische Monarchie und nach deren Zerfall 1918 die Republik Osterreich.
El presente libro es un homenaje al profesor Inaki Rivera Beiras con motivo de haber obtenido en febrero de 2025 la catedra que hace tanto tiempo merecia.
Die Schuldfrage steht im Zentrum jeder strafrechtlichen Auseinandersetzung - sie ist zugleich juristischer Prufstein und Spiegel gesellschaftlicher Werte.
El presente libro es un homenaje al profesor Inaki Rivera Beiras con motivo de haber obtenido en febrero de 2025 la catedra que hace tanto tiempo merecia.
El horreo es un elemento inseparablemente ligado a la economia agricola, que entronca y nos enlaza con las raices historicas y culturales de nuestra civilizacion occidental actual, sobre todo a partir de la presencia romana en la Peninsula Iberica.
La presente obra aborda la formacion de la nocion juridica de servicio publico en el Derecho administrativo de Chile, Espana y Francia, en una perspectiva historica y comparada.
Este segundo tomo de Clasicos del Derecho publico aborda la vida y la obra de los autores espanoles e hispanoamericanos que escriben en el espacio temporal que va desde comienzos del siglo XIX hasta los dos primeros decenios del siglo XX.
"e;Amul Thapar sets the record straight with this can't-put-down series of stories that reveal the courage, decency, and humanity of the man behind what many are calling the Thomas Court.
El XV Congreso Internacional de la Asociacion Colombiana de Juristas Catolicos se celebro en la Universidad Sergio Arboleda, de Santafe de Bogota, los pasados dias 17 y 18 de abril de 2024.
The courtroom drama that denied the legitimacy of slavery in late medieval EuropeIn 1387, a young Muslim woman from North Africa was captured on a galley in the Bay of Naples and brought to Marseille as a slave.
Mit Blick auf die laufenden Umstrukturierungen in vielen deutschen Diözesen und den sich daraus ergebenden Anforderungen stellt sich die Frage nach der theologischen Positionierung und rechtlichen Normierung der Kleriker in der katholischen Kirche.
