Legal history

In the UK and elsewhere, restorative justice and policing are core components of a range of university programmes; however, currently no such text exists on the intersection of these two areas of study.

An important and wide-ranging collection of legal texts from ancient Egypt in translation with full elucidation by experts.

Elizabeth and James, Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare, Bacon and Ellesmere, Perkins and Laud, Milton and Hobbes-this begins a list of early modern luminaries who write on 'equity'.

Explores how two landmark transnational human rights lawsuits operated as transitional justice mechanisms in the former Western bloc.

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

Why is the law notoriously unclear, arcane, slow to change in the face of changing circumstances?

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.

Drawing together an international team of historians, lawyers and historical sociolinguists, this volume investigates urban cultures of law in Scotland, with a special focus on Aberdeen and its rich civic archive, the Low Countries, Norway, Germany and Poland from c.

Discusses the judicial role in constitutional authoritarianism in the context of Korea''s political and constitutional transitions.

First published in 1981, this book traces the history of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) from 1897-1914.

Arguing that the female criminal subject was central to the rise of the British novel, Kirsten T.

Does the development of new technology cause an increase in the level of surveillance used by central government?

Frankfurt am Main, in common with other imperial German cities, enjoyed a large degree of legal autonomy during the early modern period, and produced a unique and rich body of criminal archives.

This book is Volume IV in the Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales.

Mit der Föderalismusreform des Jahres 2007 hat eine bewährte Praxis auf der Grundlage eines Bundesgesetzes und bundeseinheitlich vereinbarter Verwaltungsvorschriften ein Ende gefunden.

The colonization policies of Ancient Rome followed a range of legal arrangements concerning property distribution and state formation, documented in fragmented textual and epigraphic sources.

The phenomenal growth of penal confinement in the United States in the last quarter of the twentieth century is still a public policy mystery.

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

Biography of the Abortion Act, exploring how it was shaped by and shaped a changing UK.

Since the September 11 attacks on the United States, the Bush administration has come under fire for its methods of combating terrorism.

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.

This is the first book-length study of the four penitentials composed in Old English.

Dass die westliche Verfassungstradition und die Weimarer Reichsverfassung einen Einfluss auf die Entstehung der Grundrechte des Grundgesetzes hatten, ist ein Allgemeinplatz, der stets im Ungefähren blieb.

This book highlights the broad scope and span of resistance as a contentious practice in the early modern Iberian world.

A study of the depictions of women's executions in Renaissance England A Weak Woman in a Strong Battle: Women and Public Execution in Early Modern England provides critical insights on representations of women on the scaffold, focusing on how female victims and those writing about them constructed meaning from the ritual.

This book investigates how defendants are assessed by criminal justice decisionmakers, such as judges, lawyers, probation officers, parole board members and those involved in restorative justice.

Focussing on the key role of the English medieval parliament in hearing and determining the requests of the king's subjects, this ground-breaking new study examines the private petition and its place in the late medieval English parliament (c.

How does justice for non-citizens look like?

This volume argues that legislation on abortion, adultery, and rape has been central to the formation of the modern citizen.

Since the economic reforms of the 1990s, India's economy has grown rapidly.

Taking the form of two companion volumes, Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland represents the first major investigation into the administration, experience, impact and representation of summary justice in Scottish towns, c.

At the time of his death in 1998, at the age of 47, Norman Calder had become the most widely-discussed scholar in his field.

Africa, it is often said, is suffering from a crisis of citizenship.

The Law of Nations and the United States Constitution offers a new lens through which anyone interested in constitutional governance in the United States should analyze the role and status of customary international law in U.

The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) mainly came into force in March 2003, introducing a new anti-money laundering regime.

Exploring the reform and regulation of juvenile females in the Victorian and early Edwardian era, this book presents the first-hand experiences of incarcerated girls to shed new light on youth criminalisation in the past and the present.

State Trials, Volume II (first published in 1972) contains cases concerned with witchcraft, the scandals of the prisons, and colonial administration gathered from the full edition of State Trials completed in 1826.

This book analyses the documents by which land was transferred from one person to another in medieval England.

This concise intellectual history of the law offers an accessible introduction to the ideas and contexts of law from ancient Babylon to eighteenth-century Europe.

This book examines legal language as a language for special purposes, evaluating the functions and characteristics of legal language and the terminology of law.

This volume, containing ten essays, is the first of two designed to illustrate the wide possibilities for research and writing in Canadian legal history and reflecting the current interests of those working in that area.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Bürgerliches Recht im politischen System des Imperialismus" verfügbar.