Legal history

This book investigates the origins, impact, and outcome of the Elizabethan obsession with fraudulent conveyancing, the part of debtor-creditor law that determines when a court can void a transfer of assets.

This book provides an overview of recent government initiatives in the field of crime and punishment, reviewing both the policies themselves, the perceived problems and issues they seek to address, and the broader social and political context in which this is taking place.

Great Christian Jurists in English History comprises biographical portraits of leading jurists and judges assessing the influence of their Christianity.

Is justice possible for a woman raped in contemporary patriarchal culture?

Today we hold the Constitution in such high regard that we can hardly imagine how hotly contested was its adoption.

This four volume collection looks at the essential issues concerning crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century.

Black thinkers in the antebellum United States grappled with what it meant to inhabit a place, a history, and a violent legal regime.

This book explores the processes by which Virginia was transformed from a British colony into a Southern slave state.

In the last half-century, the Supreme Court of Canada has undergone major upheaval.

Explores the role that mass migration played in shaping modern international law and politics.

This book offers a new perspective on the death penalty in the US, examining capital punishment as state crime or state-produced harm.

In its broadest sense, this book is concerned with the attempt by workers in Britain during the period 1760-1871 to engage in collective action in circumstances of conflict with their employers during a time when the nation and many of its traditional economic structures and customary modes of working were undergoing rapid and unsettling change.

Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, FinalistWhile car-crash victim Sharon Kowalski lay comatose in the hospital, battle lines were drawn between her parents and her lesbian companion Karen Thompson, initiating a nearly decade-long struggle over the guardianship of Kowalski.

In the years between 1750 and 1868, English criminal justice underwent significant changes.

The relationship between Islamic law and society is an important issue in Iran under the Islamic Republic.

During the Civil War, 410,000 people were held as prisoners of war on both sides.

This third selection of articles by Robert Feenstra complements the two previously published, continuing his studies of doctrines of private law and of texts related to university teaching from the 13th century into the early modern period.

Two men were shot and killed in the office of the Montreal Cotton Company in Valleyfield, Quebec, on a night in 1895.

Based on an interdisciplinary conference held at the University of Cambridge in May 2012, Legitimacy and Criminal Justice: An International Exploration brings together internationally renowned scholars from a range of disciplines including criminology, international relations, sociology and political science to examine the meaning of legitimacy and advance its theoretical understanding within the context of criminal justice.

Men on trial explores how the Irish perform 'the self' within the early nineteenth-century courtroom and its implications for law, society and nation.

The Literary and Legal Genealogy of Native American Dispossession offers a unique interpretation of how literary and public discourses influenced three U.

Policing the Global South provides scholarship which further transnationalises and democratises ideas about policing practices and philosophies, highlighting renovations in approaches to policing studies, and injecting innovative perspectives into the study of policing from scholars positioned on the 'periphery'.

La capacidad de adaptación del ser humano a las adversidades, es una de las características importantes que posee, esto es imprescindible para que quien comete delito, pueda sobreponerse mediante la readaptación y reinserción social.

Supreme Court justices have long relied on law clerks to help process the work of the Court.

The Routledge Handbook of Homicide Studies comprehensively examines the topic of homicide from a diverse collection of perspectives and backgrounds.

What role did the courts play in the demise of Germany's first democracy and Hitler's rise to power?

This volume in the Osgoode Society's distinguished series on the history of Canadian law is a tribute to Professor R.

In Constitutional Orphan, Professor Paula Monopoli explores the significant role of former suffragists in the constitutional development of the Nineteenth Amendment -- the woman suffrage amendment ratified in 1920.

John Lilburne (1615-1657), or 'Freeborn John' as he was called by the London crowd, was an important political agitator during the English Revolution.

As planet Earth continues to absorb unprecedented levels of anthropogenically induced environmental and climatic change, two similar academic schools of thought have emerged in recent years, both making sustained efforts to explain how and why this state of affairs has evolved.

The Canons of the Church of England are an essential reference for anyone responsible for the legal aspects of running a church

There is a growing acknowledgment amongst professionals and academics that we need to develop new responses to crime.

Develops a new account of historical injustice and redress, demonstrating why a consideration of history is crucial for gender equality.

Questioning a literary history that, since Ian Watt's Rise of the Novel, has privileged the courtship plot, Kelly Hager proposes an equally powerful but overlooked narrative focusing on the failed marriage.

In this lively social history, first published in 1988, Lionel Rose explores in detail the plight of the street poor between 1815 and 1985.

This book explores the theoretical contribution of Michel Foucault to the fields of criminology, law, justice and penology.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

The concept of kinship is at the heart of understanding not only the structure and development of a society, but also the day-to-day interactions of its citizens.

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"e;Slavery is the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised.

Until the nineteenth century, the Russian legal system was subject to an administrative hierarchy headed by the tsar, and the courts were expected to enforce, not interpret the law.

This book reflects on the institutionalisation of restorative justice over the last 20 years and offers a critical analysis of the qualitative consequences generated by such a process on the normative structure of restorative justice, and on its understanding and uses in practice.

Through a wide range of international and interdisciplinary case studies, this book develops the notion of legacy, and in particular, 'living legacy'- that is, it explores power relations in the context of time as a means to considering and challenging social injustice.