Legal history

John Milton is widely known as the poet of liberty and freedom.

Few episodes in the modern civil rights movement were more galvanizing or more memorialized than the brutal murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaneyidealists eager to protect and promote the rights of black Americans, even in the deep and very dangerous South.

A selection of outstanding papers from the 24th British Legal History Conference, celebrating scholarship in comparative legal history.

The Evolving Protection of Prisoners' Rights in Europe explores the development of the framing of penal and prison policies by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), clarifying the European expectations of national authorities, and describing the various models existing in Europe, with a view to analysing their mechanisms and highlighting those that seem the most suitable.

Disease and crime are increasingly conflated in the contemporary world.

Shows that the law of freedom, not slavery, determined the way that race developed over time in three slave societies.

Outlining an original analysis of the political dimension of restorative justice, this book seeks both to enhance the critical comprehension of this phenomenon and to forge new tools for acting politically through restorative justice, inviting restorative justice scholars, practitioners and advocates to become a radical political movement.

What the presence of law tells us about our beliefs, our language, and the world around usIn a strikingly original work intended not only for practicing lawyers but for anyone interested in the modern dilemma of the loss of meaning, Joseph Vining invites us to reconsider law as a unique form of thought, inseparably connected to everything in the world that makes up human identity.

Understanding and Reducing Prison Violence considers both the individual and prison characteristics associated with violence perpetration and violent victimization among both prison inmates and staff.

Young offenders given custodial sentences in youth institutions constitute an important group in the context of crime prevention research, given that offenders within this group are at high risk of reoffending or continuing with a criminal career into adulthood.

This collection of essays honours Rosemary Auchmuty, Professor of Law at the University of Reading, UK.

Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London explores a largely obscured marketplace of motherhood that provided ways for women to manage the stigma of illegitimacy and their respectable identities within Victorian and Edwardian society.

No other nation's creation, both politically and socially, owes such a debt to lawyers as the United States of America.

Researching Prisons provides an overview of the processes, practices, and challenges involved in undertaking prison research.

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The new global cancer data suggests that the global burden has risen to 18.

State Violence, Torture, and Political Prisoners discusses the activities of Amnesty International during the period of Brazil's dictatorship (1964-1985).

This book details how capital punishment violates universal human rights and traces the evolution of the world''s understanding of torture.

Adversarial Justice and Victims' Rights explores the extent to which reforms that offer victims enhanced rights to information and participation across England and Wales, Ireland and South Australia can address sexual assault victims' procedural and substantive justice concerns.

The Handbook of Constitutional Law in Greater China surveys important issues of constitutional law in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Allen Steinberg brings to life the court-centered criminal justice system of nineteenth-century Philadelphia, chronicles its eclipse, and contrasts it to the system - dominated by the police and public prosecutor - that replaced it.

This book argues for a change in our understanding of how nineteenth-century Americans conceived the relationships among law, politics and history.

This book explores the legal and social consequences of growing up illegitimate in England and Wales.

The development of the modern Yale Law School is deeply intertwined with the story of a group of students in the 1960s who worked to unlock democratic visions of law and social change that they associated with Yale's past and with the social climate in which they lived.

Little of what we know about prison comes from the mouths of prisoners, and very few academic accounts of prison life manage to convey some of its most profound and important features: its daily pressures and frustrations, the culture of the wings and landings, and the relationships which shape the everyday experience of being imprisoned.

Augustus sprach den als Soldaten dienenden Haussöhnen ein Testierrecht über jene Vermögenswerte zu, welche sie im Militär erworben haben (militärisches Sondergut – peculium castrense).

Prison Recipes and Prison Cookbooks provides an innovative exploration of U.

First published in 1975, this collection of essays expands upon the themes and ideas developed in the editors' previous work, the visionary and groundbreaking text: The New Criminology.

This work is a translation of de Raynevals 1803 classic The Institutions of Natural Law and the Law of Nations.

This book focuses on Anglo-American disputes arising out of the civil war in the United States and British interests in the American continent: the Geneva Arbitration, the Venezuela-Guiana Arbitration and the Bhering Sea Arbitration.

As the number of prisoners in the UK, USA and elsewhere continues to rise, so have concerns risen about the damaging short term and long term effects this has on prisoners.

It has become somewhat axiomatic to refer to the police as the 'gatekeepers' of the criminal justice system and thus as a mechanism for the provision of justice.

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

This book explores the subjects of child sex abuse, flaws in the justice system, cultural support for vigilantism, prison violence, and the socio-legal philosophy of punishment.

The first collective work devoted exclusively to the ethical and penal theoretical considerations of the use of artificial intelligence at sentencing Is it morally acceptable to use artificial intelligence (AI) in the determination of sentences on those who have broken the law?

This volume examines the contributions to International Law of individual members of the Advisory Committee of Jurists in the League of Nations, and the broader national and discursive legal traditions of which they were representative.

Drawing on the latest contemporary research from an internationally acclaimed group of scholars, Law, history, colonialism brings together the disciplines of law, history and post-colonial studies in a singular exploration of imperialism.

This book analyses the states of emergency exposing the intersections between colonial law, international law, imperialism and racial discrimination.

The trial of former SS lieutenant and Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie was France's first trial for crimes against humanity.

This book places the intimate experience of fertility control at the heart of political and social approaches toward women's bodies.

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Marxist Ideology and Soviet Criminal Law (1980) is about differences between theory and practice in the Soviet Union.

An accessible, comprehensive, and high quality companion to legal philosophy written by a stellar cast of international contributors.

This innovative book blends constitutional theory with real-life political practice to explore the impact of codifying constitutional amendments on the operation of the constitution in relation to democracy, the rule of law, and the separation of powers.