Legal history

The studies collected here cover a period of about 33 years, from 1986 to 2019, and represent a sustained effort to understand the institutions of the Merovingian kingdom and its history.

This volume examines the contributions of Christian minorities to societies across the globe in the midst of pressure and persecution.

This volume offers a fresh perspective on custom''s enduring place in both domestic and international law.

In its broadest sense, this book is concerned with the attempt by workers in Britain during the period 1760-1871 to engage in collective action in circumstances of conflict with their employers during a time when the nation and many of its traditional economic structures and customary modes of working were undergoing rapid and unsettling change.

The Wisconsin State Constitution provides an outstanding constitutional and historical account of the state's governing charter.

This multi-disciplinary study considers the intersection between law and family life in Ireland from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.

Constitutional Torts and the War on Terror examines the judicial response to human rights claims arising from the Bush Administration's war on terror.

Some of the most exciting and innovative legal scholarship has been driven by historical curiosity.

The Politics of Law in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy features original contributions by international scholars on the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Lauro Martines' Lawyers and Statecraft in Renaissance Florence, which is recognized as a groundbreaking study challenging traditional approaches to both Florentine and legal history.

The eminent legal historian William E.

This book explores diplomacy and ritual practice at a moment of new departures and change in both early modern Europe and Russia.

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

Is there a future for the law?

Offers new understandings of the famous foxhunting case, Pierson v.

A historical look at the early evolution of global trade and how this led to the creation and dominance of the European business corporationBefore the seventeenth century, trade across Eurasia was mostly conducted in short segments along the Silk Route and Indian Ocean.

This book examines the influence of constitutional legal paradigms upon the political stability and viability of states.

Germany has long been at the centre of European debates surrounding the modern role of national constitutional law and its relationship with EU law.

John Marshall's landmark 1823 decision in Johnson v.

Eugen Huber hat die Grundlagen des Schweizerischen Privatrechts geschaffen: Das ZGB und das revidierte OR tragen seine Handschrift.

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 volume provides an overview of selected major areas of legal and institutional development in Lithuania since the Restoration of Independence in 1990.

The only account of this seminal trial, written by Mandela's defence attorneyThe only account of this seminal trial, written by Mandela's defence lawyer and with a new foreword by Denis Goldberg, accused alongside Mandela and sentenced to life imprisonment.

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Race, Recognition and Retribution in Contemporary Youth Justice provides a cross-national, sociohistorical investigation of the legacy of racial discrimination, which informs contemporary youth justice practice in Canada and England.

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

In Trying Biology, Adam R.

Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law presents essays in which scholars from various countries and legal systems engage critically with formative texts in criminal legal thought since Hobbes.

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 volume offers a long overdue appraisal of the dynamic interactions between Roman law and Latin literature.

Bringing together a collection of essays by writers with diverse knowledge of the US criminal justice system, from those with personal experience in prison and on patrol to scholarly researchers, What Is a Criminal?

Habeas Corpus in Wartime unearths and presents a comprehensive account of the legal and political history of habeas corpus in wartime in the Anglo-American legal tradition.

This book examines internal political conflicts in the British Empire within the legal framework of treason and sedition.

Law is integral to culture, and culture to law.

In her study of anonymous infanticide news stories that appeared from 1822 to 1922 in the heart of the British Empire, in regional Leicester, and in the penal colony of Australia, Nicola Goc uses Critical Discourse Analysis to reveal both the broader patterns and the particular rhetorical strategies journalists used to report on young women who killed their babies.

Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston explore the experience of coal miners' lung diseases and the attempts at voluntary and legal control of dusty conditions in British mining from the late nineteenth century to the present.

'Pioneers' seems fitting to Professor Gouron to describe the jurists (civilists) of the 12th-century Latin West, that were the bearers of a new science, born in Bologna about 1100.

The Roman Law of Obligations presents a series of lectures delivered by the late Peter Birks as an introductory course in Roman law.