Legal history

This volume takes stock of contemporary perspectives on gender and crime.

This book offers new international perspectives on captivity in wartime during the twentieth century.

Exploring what globalisation can teach us about Western legal tradition through seminal events.

An historical analysis of how ethnicity shaped international law and why it is relevant to minorities and ethnic conflicts today.

Explores how contemporary context and Anglican liturgical tradition can be fused together to create engaging and transformative worship.

There are many histories of the police as a law-enforcement institution, but no genealogy of the police as a form of power.

This book explores all aspects of medieval canon law.

Good Judgment, based upon the author's experience as a lawyer, law professor, and judge, explores the role of the judge and the art of judging.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

This Handbook brings together 40 of the world's leading scholars and rising stars who study international law from disciplines in the humanities - from history to literature, philosophy to the visual arts - to showcase the distinctive contributions that this field has made to the study of international law over the past two decades.

This book offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the criminal justice system of England and Wales.

Lawyer, judge, politician, poet, teacher, and architect, William Blackstone was a major figure in eighteenth century public life.

Tracing the use of legal themes in the gothic novel, Bridget M.

This book provides a lively and accessible account of Australia's most prominent crimes and criminals of the nineteenth and twentieth century and offers an informative background for those seeking to understand crimes committed today.

Examining the historical and political conditions that shaped death penalty practice from the end of World War II to today.

The United States Circuit Courts of Appeals are among the most important governmental institutions in our society.

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The rural county of Poyang, lying in northern Jiangxi Province, goes largely unmentioned in the annals of modern Chinese history.

The decisive victories in the fight for racial equality in America were not easily won, much less inevitable; they were achieved through carefully conceived strategy and the work of tireless individuals dedicated to this most urgent struggle.

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.

The history of international criminal justice told through the revealing stories of some of its primary intellectual figures.

Now the subject of the Netflix documentary The Devil Next DoorThe incredible story of the most convoluted legal odyssey involving Nazi war crimesIn 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk.

Why do we punish?

Americas founders extolled a nation of laws, for they knew that only a fairly enforced legal system could protect liberty and property against corruption and tyranny.

An in-depth look at the reversal of a wrongful conviction in a noteworthy example of the justice system seeking to correct mistakes of the past In 2019, Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams were released after almost 43 years in prison when murder charges against them were dismissed in the first exoneration brought about through a Conviction Integrity Review unit in Florida.

With the passage into law of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, rights took on new legal, political, and social significance in Canada.

Between Systems and Violence offers a compilation and analysis of state-level statutes targeting intimate partner violence (IPV) in immigrant and/or refugee (IMR) lives.

Invisible Voices explores the intersection of criminology and history as a way of contextualizing the historical black presence in crime and punishment in the UK.

First published in 1997, this volume provides the reader from a common law background with an introduction to the Legal System and basic private law institutions of contemporary Italy.

Disputes, discord and reconciliation were fundamental parts of the fabric of communal living in early modern Europe.

This book argues that sovereignty is the first-order question of political order, and that seventeenth-century England provides an important case study in the roots of its modern iterations.

A century after the publication of Evgeny Pashukanis' pivotal book General Theory of Law and Marxism, this collection presents a comprehensive account and analysis of his key concept of legal form.

Through much of the 1990s, a newly hatched snake wreaked political havoc in the South.

First published in 1976, this book examines the practical workings of the English criminal court system, focusing on the defendant's experiences of the system and the decisions he takes as he passes through it.

Provides theoretical and practical insights into how the new phenomenon of human rights cities contributes to global urban justice.

For over a century, many have struggled to turn the Constitution's prime goal "e;to establish Justice"e; into reality for Americans who cannot afford lawyers through civil legal aid.

The Dual State, first published in 1941, remains one of the most erudite books on the logic of dictatorship.

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This book explores the concept of deference as used by historians and political scientists.

This book examines one of the most fundamental issues in twelfth-century English politics: justice.