Legal history

This book explores the constitutional debates of the Year 3 of the French Revolution (also known as Year 1 of the French Republic) and the drafts for the Declaration and the Constitution of 1793.

This book analyses the documents by which land was transferred from one person to another in medieval England.

This book studies the concept of a ''self-evident'' God in American legal thought from the Revolution to the present.

The 38 Croatian, Slovenian and Czech constitutional documents reflect the development of the modern national movements of these Middle and South East European Slavic peoples and their political and cultural efforts to emancipate themselves from the Habsburg monarchy around 1848.

Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America.

This volume uses four case studies, all with strong London connections, to analyze homicide law and the pardoning process in eighteenth-century England.

The Law Officer's Pocket Manual is a handy, pocket-sized, spiral-bound manual that highlights basic legal rules for quick reference and offers examples showing how those rules are applied.

For decades, the public company has played a dominant role in the American economy.

Wie freiheitlich ist eine sich auf die Werte der Aufklärung berufende Gesellschaft noch, wenn sie ihren Gegnern ein faires Verfahren vorenthält?

Poverty, inequality, and dispossession accompany economic globalization.

The growing body of work on imprisonment, desistance and rehabilitation has mainly focused on policies and treatment programmes and how they are delivered.

This book proposes a significant reassessment of the history of Iraq, documenting democratic experiences from ancient Mesopotamia through to the US occupation.

X-ray imaging is a corner stone of breast cancer diagnosis.

A critical evaluation of the latest reform in Chinese law that engages legal scholarship with research of Chinese legal historians.

A Restorative Approach to Family Violence looks back at an early and successful demonstration of a family and culturally based model to stop severe family violence.

The Handbook on Prisons and Jails brings together some of the brightest scholars and thinkers in the field to offer a wide range of perspectives for understanding the experiences of persons incarcerated or working/volunteering within carceral institutions.

All the world's criminal justice systems need to undertake direct work with people who have come into their care or are under their supervision as a result of criminal offences.

Bonds of Empire reveals how English law facilitated the expansion of slavery in British America.

The volume revisits memory laws as a phenomenon of global law, transitional justice, historical narratives and claims for historical truth

This book examines the history of cosmopolitanism from its origins in the ancient world up to its use in Kantian political philosophy.

Almost 80 years after Leon Trotsky founded the Fourth International, there are now Trotskyist organizations in 57 countries, including most of Western Europe and Latin America.

This monograph makes a major new contribution to the historiography of criminal justice in England and Wales by focusing on the intersection of the history of law and crime with medical history.

Modern international criminal law typically traces its origins to the twentieth-century Nuremberg and Tokyo trials, excluding the slave trade and abolition.

Crime and Criminal Justice in America, Third Edition, addresses the major controversial issues in U.

As the leading legal historian of his generation in Canada and professor at McGill University for over three decades, Blaine Baker (1952-2018) was known for his unique personality, teaching style, intellectual cosmopolitanism, and deep commitment to the place of Canadian legal history in the curriculum of law faculties.

Madeleine's Children uncovers a multigenerational saga of an enslaved family in India and two islands, Runion and Mauritius, in the eastern empires of France and Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

THE TRIAL OF A LIFETIME.

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»Dieses Buch ist aktueller denn je: Es zeigt, wohin Rechtsextremismus und Antisemitismus führen können.

The brand new John Rebus thriller from the iconic Number One bestseller Ian Rankin: one of the must-read books of the year.

Kobayashi Akio, lover of all things flora, but not particularly fond of people.

En estos, los primeros documentos disponibles en los archivos, Manuel Quintín Lame relata a las autoridades de Bogotá las circunstancias previas a su detención de ese año y las injusticias cometidas contra él en el Cauca.

This volume is broadly divided into two main sections.

As the sun begins to set over Louisiana one October day in 1943, a young black man faces the final hours of his life: at midnight, eighteen-year-old Willie Jones will be executed by electric chair for raping a white girl - a crime some believe he did not commit.

Americans are deeply divided over the Second Amendment.

La libertad de expresión debe convivir con el respeto al derecho ajeno.

Die Fachtage "Familienorientierung im Strafvollzug" an der Hochschule Merseburg 2017 und 2018 hatten zum Ziel, AkteurInnen aus den Bereichen der Justiz, der Freien Straffälligenhilfe, aber auch andere professionell Handelnde, in einen moderierten Prozess des Austauschs über eine stärkere Orientierung des Vollzuges an den Bedarfen von Familien zu bringen.

Hans-Jochen Vogel, der bekannte Politiker und Jurist, stellt in diesem Buch ein weiteres Mal kuriose Rechtsvorschriften aus dem königlichen Bayern vor, mit denen er bei der damaligen Bereinigung des bayerischen Landesrechts befasst war.

In an extraordinary history of the criminal trial, Sadakat Kadri shows with wit, legal insight and a travel writer's eye for detail, how the irrationality of the past lives on in the legal systems of the present.