Legal history

Das Buch betrachtet alle wichtigen Aspekte der modernen polnischen Strafrechtsgeschichte vor einem europaischen Hintergrund.

The author and acclaimed historian of this book, originally published in 1926, was a strong advocate for the use of original source documents in the study of history, maintaining that applying historical criticism to documents, and balancing one document against another was a process of 'the highest educational value'.

This handbook provides a timely synthesis of the international literature that investigates men's experiences of intimate partner violence and help seeking behavior, and considers what the findings mean for research, practice, and policy.

The Routledge Pocket Guide to Legal Latin is an invaluable legal reference tool, providing a quick and informative guide to Latin words and phrases commonly used in legal settings.

The defining legal history of a landmark decision by the US Supreme Court that gutted a key piece of FDR's New Deal.

Addressing a lack of high-quality sentencing information in Ireland, this important book explores the factors that influence judges to impose a sentence of long-term imprisonment in sexual offence cases.

This book offers a one-stop guide to becoming employable and to careers in the criminal justice sector and beyond, exploring the key organisations and employers in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, explaining how they operate and detailing how they are changing.

The Routledge Pocket Guide to Legal Latin is an invaluable legal reference tool, providing a quick and informative guide to Latin words and phrases commonly used in legal settings.

This book examines how the Roman, French and English legal systems have each dealt with the issue of unforeseen, supervening events which have rendered the performance of contractual obligations either impossible or fundamentally different in nature, sometimes known as Force Majeure or Acts of God.

Originally published in English in 1985, this book concentrates on the people of the Middle Ages and how they saw the world they lived in.

This collective volume delves into the criminal responsibility of judges under authoritarian regimes, with case studies from Germany, Argentina, and Chile, examining their involvement in criminal human rights abuses and failures to protect victims from such crimes.

This book explores how and why the UK left the European Union and its impact on the British Constitution.

Diese Studie widmet sich der Auswertung und Rekonstruktion von Notizen zum jungen Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779–1861), die Stephan Meder 2024 unter dem Titel »Franz Peter Bremer.

This book examines how the Roman, French and English legal systems have each dealt with the issue of unforeseen, supervening events which have rendered the performance of contractual obligations either impossible or fundamentally different in nature, sometimes known as Force Majeure or Acts of God.

Originally published in 1985, Imprisonment in England and Wales is an account of the changing functions and conditions of imprisonment in England and Wales from the Medieval period to the present day.

Including a peer-support workbook with exercises, this book demonstrates the therapeutic value of art practice, both inside and outside institutions, as a more humane approach for children and adolescents affected by mass incarceration.

No ha habido quizás en Europa otro periodo histórico en el que la ciencia jurídica desempeñara un papel tan relevante como durante la vigencia de la Constitución de Weimar.

A riveting account of one inmate's quest to die on death rowand a fearless look at a system of punishment that has failed the public it claims to serve.

This handbook provides a timely synthesis of the international literature that investigates men's experiences of intimate partner violence and help seeking behavior, and considers what the findings mean for research, practice, and policy.

Gender and the Jubilee is a bold reconceptualization of black freedom during the Civil War that uncovers the political and constitutional claims made by African American women.

This book explores the complexities and nuances of reparations for victims and survivors of settler colonial violence.

Originally published in English in 1976, this book shed new light upon a dark aspect of a dark age in the social history of Europe.

These are papers from the 10th Cambridge Tax Law History Conference, which took place in July 2020.

Originally published in 1978, this global comparative survey investigates the political, social and economic features of feudalism.

This collective volume delves into the criminal responsibility of judges under authoritarian regimes, with case studies from Germany, Argentina, and Chile, examining their involvement in criminal human rights abuses and failures to protect victims from such crimes.

Originally published in English in 1964, this book threw new light on the positive value and significance of the Middle Ages.

This book assembles critical contributions on the work of TRS Allan, the Professor Emeritus of Jurisprudence and Public Law at the University of Cambridge, whose leading work in legal and constitutional theory spans almost 45 years.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

Black thinkers in the antebellum United States grappled with what it meant to inhabit a place, a history, and a violent legal regime.

This book offers a one-stop guide to becoming employable and to careers in the criminal justice sector and beyond, exploring the key organisations and employers in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, explaining how they operate and detailing how they are changing.