Legal history

This collection marks the 150th anniversary of the Technology and Construction Court by presenting insights into its history and impact.

Introduction to Criminal Justice, Tenth Edition, offers a student-friendly description of the criminal justice process-outlining the decisions, practices, people, and issues involved.

Crime control has risen rapidly up the social and political agendas to become a central feature of western societies.

This book is an ambitious attempt to map the main changes in the criminal justice system in the Victorian period through to the twentieth century.

For most of the twentieth century, the American founding has been presented as a struggle between social classes over issues arising primarily within, rather than outside, the United States.

While Irish historical writing has long been in thrall to the perceived sectarian character of the legal system, this collection is the first to concentrate attention on the actual relationship that existed between the Irish population and the state under which they lived from the War of the Two Kings (1689-1691) to the Great Famine (1845-1849).

This book considers the rarely studied but pervasive concepts of doubt that medieval Muslim jurists used to resolve problematic criminal cases.

This book systematically investigates the capital punishment of girls and women in one jurisdiction in the United States over nearly four centuries.

This book argues that the expressivist justice model provides a meaningful foundation for the participation of victims in international criminal proceedings.

Winner of the Ramnath Goenka Award 2020On 26th January 1950 India became a republic, shedding its last links with its colonial past and inaugurating a new era of liberty and freedom.

Means provides the first major study of both the historical development of private law in a Latin American country and the shifting role of business corporations or share companies in Latin American development.

Reinventing Bankruptcy Law explodes conventional wisdom about the history of the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act and in its place offers the first historical account of Canada's premier corporate restructuring statute.

Few issues attract greater concern and censure than those that surround youth 'gangs'.

The later twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a pivotal period for the development of European government and governance.

A study of how the development of representative politics in late-colonial India transformed notions of family, gender and religious community.

Policing youth probes beneath the media sensationalism surrounding youth crime in order to evaluate the workings of juvenile justice and the relationship between young people and practitioners in a key era of social change.

Explores a Washington, DC slave trader''s legal misadventures associated with transporting convict slaves through New Orleans.

Explores how local courtrooms have been a common feature of everyday life and culture since the eighteenth century.

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The Police Misconduct Complaint Investigations Manual provides a timely and unique, step-by-step approach to conducting or reviewing police misconduct investigations, whether a complaint involves a lower-level allegation of discourtesy or more serious concerns such as excessive force or criminal behavior.

As the UK and many other western societies face up to the consequences of a rapidly increasing prison population, so the search for alternative approaches to punishment and dealing with offenders has become an increasingly urgent priority for government policy and society as a whole.

'A fascinating, comprehensive study that forces us to think again about what law is, and why it matters .

This book provides a succinct and accessible account of the critical role of legal and constitutional issues of the American Civil War.

This book explores the development and application of the law of treason in England across more than a thousand years, placing this legal history within a broader historical context.

This fully revised and updated second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law provides a wide-ranging and diverse critical survey of comparative law at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

The working of the 1969 Children and Young Persons Act was the subject of much debate in the 1970s.

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

This book explores the consequences of eight exemplary cases around which the common law developed to reveal the diverse and uncoordinated attempts by the courts to adapt the law to changing conditions.

This book explores diplomacy and ritual practice at a moment of new departures and change in both early modern Europe and Russia.

Provides students with an introduction to legal philosophy, using the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to reflect on human rights.

This book provides a comparative analysis of the process of breach across ten different European jurisdictions by identifying and elaborating a number of key analytical themes through which the different systems can be compared and evaluated.

This book critically evaluates the rise of the far-right in Greece, detailing the legal context in which to understand both the emergence of Golden Dawn, the far-right's largest grouping, and the 2020 court decision, in which it was deemed to be a criminal organisation.

This book brings together Foucault's writings on crime and delinquency, on the one hand, and sexuality, on the other, to argue for an anti-carceral feminist Foucauldian approach to sex crimes.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Rechtsgeschichte und das Problem der historischen Kontinuität" verfügbar.

Anger was the engine of justice in the ancient Greek world.

On March 11, 1854, the people of Wisconsin prevented agents of the federal government from carrying away the fugitive slave, Joshua Glover.

Etwa 100 Jahre nach der Entstehung des Sachsenspiegels versieht der universitär ausgebildete Jurist Johann von Buch, dem Vorbild der Glossae Ordinariae des römisch-kanonischen Rechts folgend, das Rechtsbuch mit einer Glossierung.

The Fragility of Law examines the ways in which, during the Second World War, the Belgian government and judicial structure became implicated in the identification, exclusion and killing of its Jewish residents, and in the theft - through Aryanization - of Jewish property.

This book traces the development of criminal law in America, from the start of the constitutional era to the rise of the New Deal order.

Exploring why prison officers leave His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) and the processes and trajectories involved in returning to 'civilian life', this book examines the reasons that prison officers want to leave HMPPS and how they transition back to 'civvy street'.

Few issues attract greater concern and censure than those that surround youth 'gangs'.

How do judges sentence?

Offering a window into the history of the modern legal profession in Western Europe, Stephen Jacobson presents a history of lawyers in the most industrialized city on the Mediterranean.

Adherents of originalism often present it as a theory that constrains legal decision-making in a clear and objective manner that is based on the text and original meaning of the Constitution, in contrast to the supposedly subjective and activist jurisprudence of those who promote a living Constitution.