Legal history

This book is about heroes of law.

The year 1856 saw the first compulsory Police Act in England (and Wales).

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Dred Scott and his landmark Supreme Court case are ingrained in the national memory, but he was just one of multitudes who appealed for their freedom in courtrooms across the country.

In this thought-provoking book, you'll find timeless questions explored through a fresh lens.

Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature argues that, ironically, custom was a supremely generative literary force for a range of Renaissance writers.

This book introduces non-specialist readers to the history of how human societies have sought to control, use and exploit our oceans, seas and shorelines over time in different geographical and cultural contexts.

The Crown is the bedrock of Westminster-style democracies, yet its meanings, powers and effects are opaque and little understood.

While arbitration was robust in colonial and early America, dispute resolution lost its footing to the court system as the United States grew into a bustling and burgeoning country.

A wide-ranging comparative and in-depth examination of ancient legal systems and legal thought in ancient Western and Eastern societies.

A novel experiment in comparative legal history, exploring the legal world in England during two different periods.

Awarded Digital Book World's Best Book Published by a University Press In this unprecedented view from the trenches, prosecutor turned champion for the innocent MarkGodseytakes us inside the frailties of the human mind as they unfold in real-world wrongful convictions.

This book explores the profound impact of peer support within the bleak landscape of incarceration.

The death penalty has inspired controversy for centuries.

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.

Life is characterised by movement, change and development, including transitions, losses and grief.

Illustrates the origin and ways of Western hegemony over other civilizations across the world.

Faith, Force, and Reason follows the evolution of the rule of law from its birth in the marshes of Mesopotamia over 4,000 years ago to its battle against apartheid in South Africa in the last twenty-five years.

Featuring contributions from scholars from across the globe, Routledge Handbook of Public Criminologies is a comprehensive resource that addresses the challenges related to public conversations around crime and policy.

This volume is concerned, above all, with the legal background and the juristic issues behind the ideology and practice of the medieval Crusades.

This book presents a feminist historical materialist analysis of the ways in which the law, policing and penal regimes have overlapped with social policies to coercively discipline the poor and marginalized sectors of the population throughout the history of capitalism.

In 1987 Judge Russell Clark mandated tax increases to help pay for improvements to the Kansas City, Missouri, School District in an effort to lure white students and quality teachers back to the inner-city district.

In recent years, controversy has surrounded the role of top government lawyers in the United States and the United Kingdom.

This volume, containing ten essays, is the first of two designed to illustrate the wide possibilities for research and writing in Canadian legal history and reflecting the current interests of those working in that area.

When the United States entered World War II, Italian nationals living in this country were declared enemy aliens and faced with legal restrictions.

A previously untold story of Jewish-Muslim relations in modern Morocco, showing how law facilitated Jews’ integration into the broader Moroccan society in which they lived Morocco went through immense upheaval in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The Formation of English Common Law provides a comprehensive overview of the development of early English law, one of the classic subjects of medieval history.

In the early second century CE, two Jewish women, Babatha and Salome Komaise, lived in the village of Maoza on the southern coast of the Dead Sea.

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

Beginning with Victoria's enthronement and an exploration of sensationalist accounts of attacks on the Queen, and ending with the notorious case of a fin-de-siecle killer, Victorian Crime, Madness and Sensation throws new light on nineteenth-century attitudes toward crime and 'deviance'.

Why should the law care about enforcing contracts?

This book offers an in-depth analysis of several national case studies on family violence between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, using court records as their main source.

Die in Berufsstand und Gesellschaft integrierten jüdischen Rechtsanwälte Bayerns traf die antisemitische Politik des Nationalsozialismus ab 1933 relativ unvorbereitet.

Hervorgegangen aus einer "Woche der Rechtswissenschaft" an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena im Jubiläumsjahr 2009, in dem sich u.

Focusing on John Milton's Paradise Lost , this book investigates the metaphorical identification of nature with a court of law - an old and persistent trope, haunted by ancient aporias, at the intersection of jurisprudence, philosophy and literature.

This volume is the second in the Essays in the History of Canadian Law series, designed to illustrate the wide possibilities for research and writing in Canadian legal history.

In 1987 Judge Russell Clark mandated tax increases to help pay for improvements to the Kansas City, Missouri, School District in an effort to lure white students and quality teachers back to the inner-city district.

Swaziland-recently renamed Eswatini-is the only nation-state in Africa with a functioning indigenous political system.

Cost-effective methods for improving crime control in AmericaSince the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has multiplied fivefold, to one prisoner for every hundred adults-a rate unprecedented in American history and unmatched anywhere in the world.

This book introduces and discusses Roman criminal law in its social and historical setting.

Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court from 1967 to 1991.

Modern legal history is increasingly interested in exploring the development of legal systems from novel and nuanced approaches.

Although less than fifty words long, the meaning of the seemingly simple Eleventh Amendment has troubled the Supreme Court at crucial points in American history and continues to spur sharp debate in present-day courts.

This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the role played by law(s) in the British Empire.