A combination of media, personal experience, and education have introduced the average American to their right to a fair trial by jury, a protection set out in the Bill of Rights of the American Constitution.
Das Buch untersucht das Verhältnis von Staatensouveränität und ius cogens aus ideen- und rechtsgeschichtlicher Perspektive und ist bestrebt, den rechtshistorischen Befund für die aktuelle völkerrechtliche Konstitutionalisierungsdebatte fruchtbar zu machen.
Arbitrating Empire offers a new history of the emergence of the United States as a global power-one shaped as much by attempts to insulate the US government from international legal scrutiny as it was by efforts to project influence across the globe.
Arbitrating Empire offers a new history of the emergence of the United States as a global power-one shaped as much by attempts to insulate the US government from international legal scrutiny as it was by efforts to project influence across the globe.
This book details both the intellectual and social history of American legal rules, institutions, ideology, and culture that had a foreign component, either by import or after 1900 also by export from the United States to other legal systems.
Through close examination of legal and literary texts, The Corporate Forms of Antebellum US Literature tells the story of the corporation in antebellum US law, literature, and culture.
Current histories seem to suggest that men alone have been capable of the development of ideas, analysis, and practice of international law until the 1990s.
Current histories seem to suggest that men alone have been capable of the development of ideas, analysis, and practice of international law until the 1990s.
Das Buch untersucht das Verhältnis von Staatensouveränität und ius cogens aus ideen- und rechtsgeschichtlicher Perspektive und ist bestrebt, den rechtshistorischen Befund für die aktuelle völkerrechtliche Konstitutionalisierungsdebatte fruchtbar zu machen.
This volume tells the story of the interaction between Christianity and law-historically and today, in the traditional heartlands of Christianity and around the globe.
This book examines piracy not just as a historical and contemporary criminal activity but as a complex phenomenon deeply interwoven with legal constructs and cultural perceptions.
Money in Imperial Rome offers an in-depth examination of the institutional framework within which money operated as an economic agent in the Roman empire, emphasising its systemic complexity.
Since the mid-20th century, many postcolonial states have engaged in multiple constitution-making exercises, with the turnover in written constitutions often due to coups or internal conflict.
This twelfth volume of Correspondence contains authoritative and fully annotated texts of all known letters sent both to and from Bentham between July 1824 and June 1828.
This volume tells the story of the interaction between Christianity and law-historically and today, in the traditional heartlands of Christianity and around the globe.
Tirades against legal theatrics are nearly as old as law itself, and yet so is the age-old claim that law must not merely be done: it must be "e;seen to be done.
Tirades against legal theatrics are nearly as old as law itself, and yet so is the age-old claim that law must not merely be done: it must be "e;seen to be done.
This volume presents the first full English translation of four key texts from the dispute between Juan Gines de Sepulveda and Bartolome de las Casas regarding the justice of Spain's invasion of the Americas, culminating in their famous debate in Valladolid in 1550-51.
This volume presents the first full English translation of four key texts from the dispute between Juan Gines de Sepulveda and Bartolome de las Casas regarding the justice of Spain's invasion of the Americas, culminating in their famous debate in Valladolid in 1550-51.
The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature explores the literary inheritance of criminal procedure in thirteenth to fifteenth century English law, focusing on felony, the gravest common law offense.
Money in Imperial Rome offers an in-depth examination of the institutional framework within which money operated as an economic agent in the Roman empire, emphasising its systemic complexity.
As pauperism and begging dramatically increased throughout Europe in the sixteenth century, poverty began to be treated as the object of governmental regulation rather than of individual benevolence.
For most of its existence, the US Supreme Court has sustained slavery, racial discrimination, segregation, racial inequality, and white preference through constitutional interpretation and legal doctrine.
As pauperism and begging dramatically increased throughout Europe in the sixteenth century, poverty began to be treated as the object of governmental regulation rather than of individual benevolence.
No American religion has had a more contentious and complex relationship with the law than Mormonism (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).
No American religion has had a more contentious and complex relationship with the law than Mormonism (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).
An authoritative, even-handed, and accessible history of the Supreme Court of the United States, the most powerful court in the world and the final arbiter of the world's oldest constitution.
For most of its existence, the US Supreme Court has sustained slavery, racial discrimination, segregation, racial inequality, and white preference through constitutional interpretation and legal doctrine.
A master storyteller presents a riveting drama of America's first "e;crime of the century"e;--from murder investigation to a church sex scandal to celebrity trial--and its aftermath.
A master storyteller presents a riveting drama of America's first "e;crime of the century"e;--from murder investigation to a church sex scandal to celebrity trial--and its aftermath.
