In his first book since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Polio: An American Story, renowned historian David Oshinsky takes a new and closer look at the Supreme Courts controversial and much-debated stances on capital punishment-in the landmark case of Furman v.
Introduction to Criminal Justice, Tenth Edition, offers a student-friendly description of the criminal justice process-outlining the decisions, practices, people, and issues involved.
This collection brings together historians, political scientists and legal scholars to explore the Anglo-American origins of impeachment and its use in the USA.
By recovering a largely forgotten English Renaissance mindset that regarded sovereignty and Providence as being fundamentally entwined, Alexander Haskell reconnects concepts historians had before treated as separate categories and argues that the first English planters in Virginia operated within a deeply providential age rather than an era of early modern entrepreneurialism.
Polen stand nach dem Großen Krieg vor der Herausforderung der innerstaatlichen Rechtsvereinheitlichung über die Grenzen der europäischen Rechtskreise hinaus und der Integration in das System internationaler Rechtsnormen.
In late Ottoman South-Eastern Europe, traditional Ottoman law, court systems and court personnel on the one hand, and ultra-modern French and German/Austrian law on the other, clashed.
De la obra de Cesare Beccaria se ha escrito que «fermentó en las conciencias, renovó las instituciones y cambió las costumbres, hasta convertirse en patrimonio moral, inconsciente pero irrenunciable, de toda la humanidad».
Racism has a long history and its devastating impacts continue to spark heated, moral and political debate and give rise to social movements and widespread protest.
First published in 1981, Lawyers in Early Modern Europe and America aims to present a convenient conspectus on the legal professions in early modern Europe, Scotland, France Spain and Colonial America, and to provide a comparative perspective on the place of the legal profession in Western societies before the Industrial Revolution.
Racism has a long history and its devastating impacts continue to spark heated, moral and political debate and give rise to social movements and widespread protest.
First published in 1981, Lawyers in Early Modern Europe and America aims to present a convenient conspectus on the legal professions in early modern Europe, Scotland, France Spain and Colonial America, and to provide a comparative perspective on the place of the legal profession in Western societies before the Industrial Revolution.
Die Gerichtsbarkeit der Vormoderne war von einer nahezu unüberschaubaren Vielzahl an Gerichten unterschiedlicher Herrschaftsträger und sozialer Gruppen geprägt.
In diesem Band werden erstmals der Ablauf und die politischen Hintergründe von Herrscherrücktritten sowie die persönliche Motivation der Abdankenden umfassend untersucht.
Ulrich Eisenhardt wertet die Quellen zur Rechtsprechung der obersten Gerichte im Alten Reich zu den Gerichtsprivilegien aus und gelangt dabei zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Gerichtsverfassung des Reiches seit dem Mittelalter von den Gerichtsprivilegien, die der König bzw.
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.
Für die juristische Untersuchung der kolonialrechtlichen Erwerbsprozesse sind die dem deutschen Zivilrecht immanenten Gerechtigkeitsideale und Billigkeitsgrundsätze maßgeblich.
Basierend auf einem umfangreichen Quellenstudium zeigt der Band, wie die Rechtsstellung des wissenschaftlichen Personals an der Universität Wien von 1848 bis 1938 theoretisch und praktisch ausgestaltet war.
Through interdisciplinary research, this book explores the continued cause of the significant gender pay gap that still exists in many countries today.
This Palgrave Pivot examines the history of the largely urban offence once known as vitriol throwing because the substance most commonly used was strong sulphuric acid, oil of vitriol.
This Palgrave Pivot examines the history of the largely urban offence once known as vitriol throwing because the substance most commonly used was strong sulphuric acid, oil of vitriol.
