Legal history

German constitutionalism has gained a central place in the global comparative debate, but what underpins it remains imperfectly understood.

This book provides the first comprehensive and detailed analysis of the Infanticide Act and its impact in England and Wales and around the world.

In Contract and Consent, the renowned legal historian J.

Argues that workers'' compensation laws created new employment discrimination against disabled people and a new injury culture that treated employees and their injuries instrumentally.

It is impossible to understand how the medieval church functioned and, in turn, influenced the lay world within its care without understanding "e;canon law"e;.

Copyright law is commonly described as carrying out a balancing act between the interests of authors or owners and those of the public.

As a punishment for our most serious crimethe intentional killing of a victim in an egregious waythe death penalty naturally attracts opposing moral views.

The stereotype of the "e;gold digger"e; has had a fascinating trajectory in twentieth-century America, from tales of greedy flapper-era chorus girls to tabloid coverage of Anna Nicole Smith and her octogenarian tycoon husband.

This book surveys the Jewish Law of testimony as presented in the Talmud and its boundaries on loyalty in non-Jewish courts.

Ein Streifzug durch die Geschichte des Rechts und seine Wissensordnungen von »Anbruch« bis »Zeitnot«.

This book provides an account of the distinctive way in which penal power developed outside the metropolitan centre.

Russia is often portrayed as a regressive, even lawless country, and yet the Russian state has played a major role in shaping and experimenting with law as an instrument of power.

This first study of the legal history of sex offences in Mandate Palestine pioneers a new socio-cultural perspective on evidence.

Cesare Beccaria's slim 1764 volume On Crimes and Punishments influenced policy developments worldwide and over decades, if not centuries, after its publication.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of several national case studies on family violence between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, using court records as their main source.

A compelling reexamination of how Britain used law to shape its empire For many years, Britain tried to impose its own laws on the peoples it conquered, and English common law usually followed the Union Jack.

The Routledge Handbook on American Prisons is an authoritative volume that provides an overview of the state of U.

This collective book offers a panorama of the history of tax evasion, tax avoidance and tax havens from the nineteenth century to the present day, based on the latest research in contemporary history.

The revised tenth edition of this core textbook provides an understanding of major world criminal justice systems by discussing and comparing the systems of six of the world's countries - each representative of a different type of legal system.

Who Killed Panayot?

Progressives who opposed the Trump administration's policies found themselves repeatedly relying on constitutional principles grounded in federalism, separation of powers, and free speech to resist the federal government.

Richter entscheiden Rechtsstreitigkeiten.

This volume in the Osgoode Society's distinguished series on the history of Canadian law is a collection of the principal essays of Professor Emeritus R.

This book is a research guide and bibliography of Parliamentary material, including the Old Scottish Parliament and the Old Irish Parliament, relating to patents and inventions from the early seventeenth century to 1976.

Desde el siglo XVI, momento en que dieron comienzo los viajes pesquero- comerciales de guipuzcoanos y vizcainos a las costas de Terranova para ocuparse en la pesca del bacalao y en la caza de la ballena, naturalistas, historiadores, economistas, linguistas y arqueologos, entre otros colectivos, se han ocupado de las navegaciones vascas al litoral atlantico canadiense.

In Coercion and Responsibility in Islam, Mairaj Syed explores how classical Muslim theologians and jurists from four intellectual traditions argue about the thorny issues that coercion raises about responsibility for one's action.

Over the past few years, opposition to the privatisation in public services in the United Kingdom and elsewhere has grown, especially in areas related to criminal justice.

Codes of Jewish law may look similar, but they represent very different ways of thinking about the law.

This, the first of two volumes of Liberty and Union, is a comprehensive constitutional history of the United States from the Anglo-American origins of the Constitution through the colonial and antebellum periods, to the Civil War and the consequent restructuring of the nation.

In the 1870s Millicent Garrett Fawcett had her purse snatched by a young thief in London.

Das Buch untersucht die völkerrechtshistorische, -theoretische und -praktische Debatte um die Bindung der Dritten Welt an die etablierte Völkerrechtsordung nach der Dekolonialisierung unter besonderer Beachtung herausragender Völkerrechtler in den neuen Staaten wie Ram Prakash Anand, Taslim Olawale Elias, Mohammed Bedjaoui, Abdul Hakim Tabibi und Mustafa Kamil Yasseen.

Oxford's variorum edition of William Blackstone's seminal treatise on the common law of England and Wales offers the definitive account of the Commentaries' development in a modern format.

Spanning almost a century of penal policy and practice in England and Wales, this book is a study of the long arc of the rehabilitative ideal, beginning in 1895, the year of the Gladstone Committee on Prisons, and ending in 1970, when the policy of treating and training criminals was very much on the defensive.

Revitalizing Victimization Theory: Revisions, Applications, and New Directions revises some of the major perspectives in victimization theory, applies theoretical perspectives to the victimization of vulnerable populations, and carves out new theoretical territory that is clearly needed but has yet to be developed.

Every day, in courtrooms around the United States, thousands of criminal defendants are represented by public defenders - lawyers provided by the government for those who cannot afford private counsel.

This book critically examines the colonial dimensions of restorative justice through the lens of justice policy reform in Jamaica.

First published in 1934, International Narcotics Control is concerned with dangerous drugs solely as a subject of international administration.

In 1980, Terrence Hake was a young assistant prosecutor in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office in Chicago, Illinois.

The book explores the rise of civil divorce in Victorian England, the subsequent operation of a fault system of divorce based solely on the ground of adultery, and the eventual piecemeal repeal of the Victorian-era divorce law during the Interwar years.

The toll of America's gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lost-more than 35,000 each year.

Over the last two decades, empirical evidence has increasingly supported the view that it is possible to reduce re-offending rates by rehabilitating offenders rather than simply punishing them.

Capital punishment is one of the more controversial subjects in the social sciences, especially in criminal justice and criminology.

This book draws on interviews and primary sources to argue that the protection of judicial independence is a political achievement.

In a contemporary setting of increasing social division and marginalisation, Policing Hate Crime interrogates the complexities of prejudice motivated crime and effective policing practices.