Legal history

It is essential for those employed within the justice system to be able to competently and confidently work at the borders between ethics and the law.

Als fundamentaler Leitwert strukturierte Eigentum den Zugang sowie die Qualität von Rechten im Alten Reich.

The Danish medieval laws: the laws of Scania, Zealand and Jutland contains translations of the four most important medieval Danish laws written in the vernacular.

This book aims to make the case for and provide some of the resources necessary to reimagine rehabilitation for twenty-first-century criminal justice.

Several different approaches to medieval legal history are evident in these articles.

Twice denied admission to a California medical school despite better grades and test scores than successful minority applicants, Allan Bakke took his grievance to court and set off a major controversy over affirmative action.

This book examines the legal principle of judicial independence in comparative perspective with the goal of advancing a better understanding of the idea of an independent judiciary more generally.

This book studies the evolution of the war prerogative in England from 1600-2012.

While the history of the uniformed police has prompted considerable research, the historical study of police detectives has been largely neglected; confined for the most part to a chapter or a brief mention in books dealing with the development of the police in general.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the imprisonment of women for politically motivated offences in Northern Ireland between 1972 and 1999.

A Restorative Approach to Family Violence looks back at an early and successful demonstration of a family and culturally based model to stop severe family violence.

The duel, and the codes of honour that governed duelling, functioned for decades in many European and Latin American countries as a shadow legal system, regulating in practice what legislators felt free to say and what journalists felt free to write.

The Collected Documents of The Group of 77 provides a chronological record of events and documents of the Group of 77 since its creation in 1963.

From the fearless defense attorney and civil rights lawyer who rose to fame with NetflixsThe Staircasecomes a bracing account of abuses of power and corruption in the criminal justice system.

This book provides histories of company law, uniting a variety of approaches from law, business and management, economics, and history.

The first comprehensive study of Chilean constitutional history in the English language.

This book focuses on a key case study in the history of American territories, public works, transportation and the constitutional system of checks and balances.

A judge-made revolution?

In 500, the legal order in Europe was structured around ancient customs, social practices and feudal values.

The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered brings together leading authorities in a transnational, international, and supranational study of Adolf Eichmann, who was captured by the Israelis in Argentina and tried in Jerusalem in 1961.

This collection focuses on how troubled times impact upon the law, the body politic, and the complex interrelationship among them.

This work explores the social foundation of evidence law in a specific historical social and cultural context - the debate concerning the proof of the crime of witchcraft in early modern England.

This book discusses the designs and applications of the social systems theory (built by Niklas Luhmann, 1927-1998) in relation to empirical socio-legal studies.

The Law of the Whale Hunt examines how property law was created in the absence of legal institutions regulating whaling in early America.

Justice, Indigenous Peoples, and Canada: A History of Courage and Resilience brings together the work of a number of leading researchers to provide a broad overview of criminal justice issues that Indigenous people in Canada have faced historically and continue to face today.

In a bravura performance that ranges from Aaron Burr to O.

Who are the perpetrators of modern slavery?

Explores the impact of legal ideas and legal consciousness on early modern English society and culture.

Das Werk bildet eine rechtswissenschaftliche Analyse der wesentlichen Bestimmungen desbayerischen Staatskirchenrechts von 1818.

A critical history of European sovereignty and property rights as the foundation of the international order in 1300–1870.

This monograph makes a seminal contribution to existing literature on the importance of Roman law in the development of political thought in Europe.

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

Over the past few decades, there has been a sharp increase in the number of elderly prisoners, and hence a rise in the number of prisoners dying in custody.

What impact did the printing press a new means of communicating the written word have on early modern English lawyers?

This book seeks to trace the notarial history of China from 1902 to 1979.

This new edition of the Guidelines for the Professional Conduct of the Clergy is a revised and extended version of the first edition, which was published in 2003.

Why have many victim-centred policy initiatives met with so little success?

This book presents the origins, doctrine, institutions, and challenges confronting modern administrative law in Central and Eastern European countries.

A critical history of European sovereignty and property rights as the foundation of the international order in 1300–1870.

This book gives voice to justice-involved Canadian youth and young adults by sharing their views on their journey towards desistance from crime and social and community (re)integration.

Exploring the reform and regulation of juvenile females in the Victorian and early Edwardian era, this book presents the first-hand experiences of incarcerated girls to shed new light on youth criminalisation in the past and the present.

Women, Trauma, and Journeys towards Desistance: Navigating the Labyrinth provides an examination of women's desistance from crime from a gender-responsive, trauma-informed perspective.

This book goes beyond other police leadership books to teach practitioners how to think about policing in a structured way that synthesizes criminological theory, statistics, research design, applied research, and what works and what doesn't in policing into Mental Models.