Legal history

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Provides theoretical and practical insights into how the new phenomenon of human rights cities contributes to global urban justice.

Kinship and Incestuous Crime in Colonial Guatemala examines social relations in colonial Guatemala through the lens of incest.

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.

This book offers a multifaceted look at Northeast India and the customs and traditions that underpin its legal framework.

This is the first comprehensive treatment in any language of the history of customary law in Hungary, from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries.

Formed in 1825, the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society is the second-oldest law society in common-law Canada, after the Law Society of Ontario.

This is a study of the history and function of the highest ecclesiastical tribunal, the Sacra Romana Rota, from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries.

This book deals with the role, development, and legacy of the first Constitution of independent Ireland within the wider context of the establishment of the State.

A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgmentWhen buildings are deemed ugly, what are the consequences?

"e;A woman was sitting on the witness stand, and the lawyer asked her, 'Did you, or did you not, on the night of June 23rd have sex with a hippie on the back of a motorcycle in a peach orchard?

Black Girlhood, Punishment, and Resistance: Reimagining Justice for Black Girls in Virginia provides a historical comprehensive examination of racialized, classed, and gendered punishment of Black girls in Virginia during the early twentieth century.

This book provides a thorough introduction to Roman property law by means of "e;cases,"e; consisting of brief excerpts from Roman juristic sources in the original Latin with accompanying English translations.

In 1791, the French femme de lettres Olympe de Gouges wrote that 'as women have the right to take their places on the scaffold, they must also have the right to take their seats in government'.

Our ideas about the long histories of young couples' relationships and women's efforts to manage their reproductive health are often premised on the notion of a powerful sexual double standard.

This book explores the evolution of the shareholder in post-war Britain within the context of changing legal, political, economic, and social conditions.

The new Hungarian Basic Law, which was ratified on 1 January 2012, provoked domestic and international controversy.

This title was first published in 2002: Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650-1950 provides a critical synthesis of the growing body of work on the history of British and European juvenile delinquency.

An eighth-generation Charlestonian with a prestigious address, impeccable social credentials, and years of intimate association with segregationist politicians, U.

Divorce in Medieval England is intended to reorient scholarly perceptions concerning divorce in the medieval period.

80 years after the Nuremberg trial, the prosecution of Nazi perpetrators has effectively come to an end.

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

This book celebrates the scholarship of Richard Baxter, former Judge of the International Court of Justice and former Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School.

Originally published in 1990, Comparative Policing Issues was the first introductory text to consider key issues in the policing of modern societies from an international, comparative perspective.

Oxford's variorum edition of William Blackstone's seminal treatise on the common law of England and Wales offers the definitive account of the Commentaries' development in a modern format.

Law Writers and the Courts explores the profound yet often overlooked influence of legal commentators on the shaping of American constitutional law in the decades following the Civil War.

This book aims to both reflect and take forward current thinking on comparative and cross-national and cross-cultural aspects of the history of crime.

This title, first published in 1981, draws from an extensive range of national and local material, and examines how innovations in policy and administration, while solving problems or setting new objectives, frequently created or disclosed fresh difficulties, and brought different types of people into the administration and management of prisons, whose interests, values and expectations in turn often had significant effects upon penal ideas and their practical applications.

When the Cleveland suburb of Euclid first zoned its land in 1922, the Ambler Realty Company was left with a sizable tract it could no longer sell for industrial use-and so the company sued.

Exploring the role that courts martial played in the professional lives of flag officers in the late Georgian Royal Navy, this book examines the genesis, proceedings and outcomes of nine trials faced by British admirals in the American and French wars.

In 1957, there were over a thousand men in prison for 'homosexual offences'.

This book deals with one of the most pervasive ways by which people have addressed authority throughout history: petitioning.

Combining socio-legal and ethnohistorical studies, this book presents the history of doodem, or clan identification markings, left by Anishinaabe on treaties and other legal documents from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries.

The recent global financial crisis has been characterised as a turning point in the way we respond to financial crime.

This book discusses the major issues currently affecting the accountability of executive power in Europe.

This book analyses religious law in colonial India, exploring how it encouraged gender equality and a rethinking of the relationship between state and society.

This is a history of the Enlightenment--the rights-oriented, formalist, secularizing, freedom-inspired eighteenth-century movement that defined modern Western law.

A Class by Herself explores the historical role and influence of protective legislation for American women workers, both as a step toward modern labor standards and as a barrier to equal rights.

A comprehensive introduction to the meaning and history of the three key provisions in the Fourteenth Amendment''s first section.