Legal history

This compelling study of the American public's response to the fate of accused murderer Hattie Woolsteen uses this legal case to examine the complexities of gender history and societal fears about the changing roles of women during the Victorian era.

Provides a more complete account of the human rights project that factors in the contribution of cosmopolitan Catholicism.

With the strengthening focus worldwide on human rights, there has been a rapid increase in recent years in the number of countries that have completely abolished the death penalty.

Written by the eminent German legal historian, Michael Stolleis, these two 'Essays on Legal History' offer an original and compelling history of the symbolism through which law is characterised as being 'above' us.

In this highly original study, Gregory Downs argues that the most American of wars, the Civil War, created a seemingly un-American popular politics, rooted not in independence but in voluntary claims of dependence.

From the ancient beginnings of Western legal tradition, law has been conceived as traversed by a fundamental tension between power (will) and reason.

Since the United States' entry into World War II, the federal judiciary has taken a prominent role in the shaping of the nation's military laws.

Density of housing in late medieval and early modern London could make access to light and privacy incompatible, provoking neighbor disputes.

Voices in the Legal Archives in the French Colonial World: "e;The King is Listening"e; offers, through the contribution of thirteen original chapters, a sustained analysis of judicial practices and litigation during the first era of French overseas expansion.

Sexual violence, in all its forms, is a crime for which anecdotal accounts and scholarly reports suggest victims in their great majority do not receive adequate 'justice' or redress.

Major new study of Ivo of Chartres, providing a new interpretation of the authorship of works attributed to him.

The revised tenth edition of this core textbook provides an understanding of major world criminal justice systems by discussing and comparing the systems of six of the world's countries - each representative of a different type of legal system.

Infamous for authoring two concepts since favored by government powers seeking license for ruthlessness-the utilitarian notion of privileging the greatest happiness for the most people and the panopticon-Jeremy Bentham is not commonly associated with political emancipation.

Jurists and Judges examines the nature of academic influence,and particularly the influence of juristic commentary on judicial decision-making.

The 1570s marked the beginning of an age of pervasive piracy in the Mediterranean that persisted into the eighteenth century.

The fundamental, inalienable rights and privileges set forth in the Bill of Rights represent the very foundations of American liberty.

This 2007 volume analyzes how, why, and when pre-modern Europeans documented their marriages.

Zu den ersten prominenten Persönlichkeiten, die in der Friedlichen Revolution unter Stasi-Verdacht gerieten, gehörten auffällig viele Rechtsanwälte, die in den Umbruchzeiten als Politiker antraten.

Originally published in 1989.

The Criminalization series arose from an interdisciplinary investigation into criminalization, focussing on the principles that might guide decisions about what kinds of conduct should be criminalized, and the forms that criminalization should take.

By focusing on law, this book offers new insights into the history of religious liberty in colonial America.

Shows how lordship and state formation affected local authority in the transition between medieval and early modern England.

This book is the first comparative law study of collateral consequences of criminal conviction in all federally recognized Indian tribes in the lower 48 U.

Why mass incarceration endures in the face of reforms, and how to truly change America's vast criminal justice systemCritics on both the left and the right increasingly use the term "e;mass incarceration"e; to call attention to the unprecedented scale and inequities of the U.

Examines the impact fugitive slaves had on the Fugitive Slave Law and the coming of the American Civil War.

Few subjects provoke as much public fascination and political concern as crime, criminality, criminology, and criminal justice policy and practice.

A magisterial account of criminal law in early modern Russia in a wider European and Eurasian context.

The second volume in this series explores the evolution of administrative laws in Europe to better understand the foundations of EU institutions, focusing on the period of 1890-1910.

In the first of the three volumes of his projected comprehensive narrative history of the role of law in America from the colonial years through the twentieth century, G.

In the first comprehensive accounting of the US Supreme Court's race-related jurisprudence, a distinguished historian and renowned civil rights lawyer scrutinize a legacy too often blighted by racial injustice.

In a pioneering study of childhood in colonial Spanish America, Bianca Premo examines the lives of youths in the homes, schools, and institutions of the capital city of Lima, Peru.

Community penalties are punishments that, in the courts' sentencing tariff, come between imprisonment and fines.

The first comprehensive study of Chilean constitutional history in the English language.

School vouchers.

Taking the shifting global drug policy terrain as a starting point, this collection moves beyond debates about whether to reform drug policies to a focus on delivering 'drug policy justice' - repairing the damage caused by the war on drugs as a component of reform efforts and safeguarding against future harms in legal markets.

In this book, Eldar Haber describes how copyright has become over-criminalized.

For some, he was Americas leading smut king, hauled into court repeatedly over thirty years for peddling obscene publications through the mail.

During its classical period, American contract law had three prominent characteristics: nearly unlimited freedom to choose the contents of a contract, a clear separation from the law of tort (the law of civil wrongs), and the power to make contracts without regard to the other party's ability to understand them.

The Writing and Ratification of the U.

In the context of education, Church and State issues are of growing importance and appear to be increasingly divisive.

These are the papers from the 8th Cambridge Tax Law History Conference held in July 2016.

Timely analysis of the rule of law and extradition in Hong Kong''s history through the legal case of Ho Chi Minh.