Legal history

The Fragility of Law examines the ways in which, during the Second World War, the Belgian government and judicial structure became implicated in the identification, exclusion and killing of its Jewish residents, and in the theft - through Aryanization - of Jewish property.

This book brings together an international group of experts to present cutting-edge psychological research on crime, policing and courts.

In a free society where it often seems nothing is sacred, many feel that one thing at least should be: that despite constitutional guarantees of free speech, it should be illegal to desecrate the American flag.

When Edwin Sutherland introduced the concept of white-collar crime, he referred to the respectable businessmen of his day who had, in the course of their occupations, violated the law whenever it was advantageous to do so.

How should we talk about the law in a period so remote from our own and covering such a huge span of time and space?

This is a history-though, intentionally, a brief history-of the rise of law and economics as a field of thought in the U.

An analysis of the development of historical consciousness in antebellum America, using the debate over slavery as a case study.

Leading historical research analysing the history of judges and judging, allowing comparisons between British, American, Commonwealth and Civil Law jurisdictions.

This book is a collection of key legal decisions affecting Indigenous Australians, which have been re-imagined so as to be inclusive of Indigenous people's stories, historical experience, perspectives and worldviews.

Constitutional scholars Christopher P.

This book is an unconventional reappraisal of Soviet law: a field that is ripe for re-evaluation, now that it is clear of Cold War cobwebs; and, as this book shows, one that is surprisingly topical and newly compelling.

As protest movements took to the streets during the 1960s and 1970s, a group of lawyers joined forces with America's most confrontational activists.

Examines early modern Spanish contributions to international relations by focusing on ambivalence of natural rights in European colonial expansion to the Americas.

Native Americans are disproportionately represented as offenders in the U.

In the wake of Watergate, Gerald Ford appointed eminent lawyer and scholar Edward H.

¿Qué conecta el pulso global del imperio de Felipe II con la administración de la justicia en un inhóspito paraje rioplatense a finales del siglo XVI?

In a projected four-volume series, The Common Law in Colonial America, William E.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Petrus Canisius SJ (1521-1597)" verfügbar.

Leading historians of English law examine the relationship between substantive law and legal process from medieval to modern times.

This book represents a unique contribution to comparative legal studies by presenting the results of an empirical research project on the use of foreign precedents in constitutional interpretation in 31 jurisdictions worldwide.

Is the world facing a serious threat to the protection of constitutional democracy?

["Rulings in Ecclesiastical Matters Since 1946"]
The collection of rulings publishes the administration of justice by governmental courts in the Federal Republic of Germany pertaining to the relationship of church and state, and also regarding further problems which are characterized by the relevance of religious concerns.

75 Jahre nach dem Nürnberger Hauptkriegsverbrecherprozess ist die Strafverfolgung der nationalsozialistischen Systemverbrechen faktisch abgeschlossen.

This research monograph provides a comparative analysis of juvenile court outcomes, exploring the influence of contextual factors on juvenile punishment across systems and communities.

The Politics of Prison Crowding investigates recent transformations in Italy's penal system to make the key analytical observation that conditions of overcrowding have become the 'new normal' under which the modern prison system continues to operate and deliver punishment.

Presents an ambitious narrative and fresh re-assessment of common law and natural law''s varied interactions in America, 1630 to 1930.

This book delineates the discovery of a previously unknown manuscript of a letter from Granville Sharp, the first British abolitionist, to the "e;Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.

Drawing on work from inside some of America's largest and toughest prisons, this book documents an alternative model of "e;restorative corrections"e; utilizing the lived experience of successful inmates, fast disrupting traditional models of correctional programming.

This book uses primary sources to closely examine the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and to show how legal interpretations of it have had a profound impact on American life as we know it.

'Inquisition' was the new form of criminal procedure that was developed by the lawyer-pope Innocent III and given definitive form at the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215.

In recent decades, research into the legitimacy of criminal justice has convincingly demonstrated the importance of procedural justice to citizens' sense of trust and confidence in legal authorities and their resulting willingness to conform to the law and cooperate with the legal authorities.

In the aftermath of sixth-century barbarian invasions, the legal profession that had grown and flourished during the Roman Empire vanished.

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World War I and the American Constitution analyzes how the First World War transformed American constitutional law.

Zhang argues that property institutions in preindustrial China and England were a cause of China''s lagging development in preindustrial times.

In this set of interdisciplinary essays leading scholars discuss the future of the Rule of Law, a concept whose meaning and import has become ever more topical and elusive.

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.

This book draws on interviews and primary sources to argue that the protection of judicial independence is a political achievement.

The past decade has seen dramatic growth in every area of the prison enterprise.

Prior to Hitler s occupation, nearly 120,000 Jews inhabited the areas that would become the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; by 1945, all but a handful had either escaped or been deported and murdered by the Nazis.

The Unheard Voice of Law in Bartolome de las Casas's Brevisima relacion de la destruicion de las Indias reinterprets Las Casas's controversial treatise as a legal document, whose legal character is linked to civil and ecclesial genres of the Early Modern and late Renaissance juridical tradition.

Can punishments ever meaningfully be proportioned in severity to the seriousness of the crimes for which they are imposed?

This book offers an innovative, comparative approach to the study of women's legal rights during a formative period of Anglo-American history.

This is the fifth volume in a series charting the causes of war from 3000 BCE to the present day,written by a leading international lawyer.

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