Legal history

First published in 1981.

The history of war is also a history of its justification.

In the new afterword Ralph Rossum covers Antonin Scalias entire career and discusses the thirty-eight major opinions since the original 2006 publication, including District of Columbia v.

This book explores the complex issue of building a common European identity and the factors that contribute to it, with special regard to the role played by the interaction between national Constitutional Courts and European Courts.

Andrew Ashworth expertly examines the key issues in English sentencing policy and practice including the mechanisms for producing sentencing guidelines.

Langum Prize, Honorable MentionWhen Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark resigned his seat on the bench at the youthful age of 67 after 18 years, his decision was unique in the annals of Court history: he was leaving so that his son Ramsey, just nominated as Attorney General, could assume the job Clark himself had once held without conflict of interest.

It is a medieval truism that the poet meddles with words, the lawyer with the world.

In Contract and Consent, the renowned legal historian J.

In 2007, for the first time in nearly seventy years, the Supreme Court decided to hear a case involving the Second Amendment.

Codes of Jewish law may look similar, but they represent very different ways of thinking about the law.

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This book is a critical summary and exegesis of the work of Nicole Rafter, who was a leading scholar of the history of biological theories of crime causation as well as a profound theorist of the role of history within criminology.

In 1824 and 1830, over one hundred thousand acres across Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska were set aside as a home for descendants of Native American women and white traders and trappers.

The intercultural contexts and new configurations in Europe offer fertile ground for social conflict, tensions and threat.

Conversations about rehabilitation and how to address the drugs-crime nexus have been dominated by academics and policymakers, without due recognition of the experience and knowledge of practitioners.

Originally published in 1997.

Die vorliegende Auswahl von Aufsätzen zur römischen Verfassung spannen den Bogen von der archaischen Zeit mit ihrer Prägung durch die augurale Religion und den Dualismus von König und Volksversammlung, über die republikanische Zeit und die in ihr entwickelten Lehren zur Interpretation politischer Wirklichkeit und zur Konzeption rechtlicher Vorgaben, über den Prinzipat des Augustus und seine konzeptionelle Verankerung in einer Neuinterpretation der spezifisch römischen Traditionen bis hin zu Justinian und seinem christlich überformten Traditionalismus.

The inscribed text referred to as the sacred law of Andania contains almost 200 lines of regulations about a mystery festival and the sanctuary in which it took place.

At the end of the eighteenth century, when ten lawyers gathered in what is now Niagara-on-the-Lake to form the Law Society of Upper Canada, they were creating something new in the world: a professional organization with statutory authority to control its membership and govern its own affairs.

Juries have been at the center of some of the most emotionally charged moments of political life.

Violence in the home, particularly assault by a man on his wife or girlfriend, is an everyday phenomenon.

Lawless Youth (1947) is a book prepared under the auspices of the International Committee of the Howard League for Penal Reform during the Second World War, aiming for the day when peace could offer the opportunity for advance on the lines of justice and humanity.

This book is a major contribution to the comparative histories of crime and criminal justice, focusing on the legal regimes of the British empire during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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On 18 October 1929, John Sankey, England's reform-minded Lord Chancellor, ruled in the Persons case that women were eligible for appointment to Canada's Senate.

Corruption undermines nearly all key legal and developmental priorities today, including the effective functioning of democratic institutions and honest elections; environmental protection; human rights and human security; international development programs; and fair competition for global trade and investment.

Drawing on engaging case studies, Essays in the History of Canadian Law brings the law to life.

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

This is a book of courtroom war stories, drawn from my forty years of experience as an obscure lawyer for the underdog and the downtrodden.

The history of ideas on rule of law for world order is a fascinating one, as revealed in this comparative study of both Eastern and Western traditions.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book examines how voluntary sustainability standards can be used to both regulate and coordinate producers in industries.

It is 1942, and World War II is raging.

Corrections officials faced with rising populations and shrinking budgets have increasingly welcomed "e;faith-based"e; providers offering services at no cost to help meet the needs of inmates.

This book examines the difficult relationship between individual intellectual freedom and the legal structures which govern human societies in William Blake's works, showing that this tension carries a political urgency that has not yet been recognised by scholars in the field.

More than thirty years ago, section 35 of the Constitution Act recognized and affirmed “the existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada.

Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations, Eleventh Edition, meets the needs of students and instructors for engaging, evidence-based, impartial coverage of interventions that can reduce or prevent deviance.

During the 20th Century, Sunday school attendance fell from 55% to only 4% of children.

["The Sanctioning of Insubordinate Patient Behaviour.

This book provides an introduction to human rights controversies in twentieth-century France, from the Dreyfus Affair at the beginning of the century, to the arguments over women and immigrants' rights at its end.

American legal scholars have debated for some time the need for a cultural defense in criminal proceedings where minority cultural information seems perti nent to a finding of criminal responsibility in situations where a minority cultural defendant has violated a valid criminal statute.

This interdisciplinary volume presents a nuanced critique of the prison experience in diverse detention facilities across Africa.

The Impact of COVID-19 on Prison Conditions and Penal Policy presents the results of a worldwide exchange of information on the impact of COVID-19 in prisons.

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.

This revised, expanded edition of the Common Worship President's Edition contains everything to celebrate Holy Communion Order One throughout the church year.