Legal history

In a contemporary setting of increasing social division and marginalisation, Policing Hate Crime interrogates the complexities of prejudice motivated crime and effective policing practices.

Often photographed in a cowboy hat with her middle finger held defiantly in the air, Florynce "e;Flo"e; Kennedy (1916-2000) left a vibrant legacy as a leader of the Black Power and feminist movements.

Through a landmark court case in mid-nineteenth-century colonial India, this book investigates hierarchy and racial difference.

The aim of this book is to assess the moral permissibility of corporal punishment and to enquire into whether or not it ought to be legally prohibited.

This book analyzes the impact of the U.

Cultural genocide is the systematic destruction of traditions, values, language, and other elements that make one group of people distinct from another.

This book aims to investigate whether, and if so, how, an institution designed to bring to justice perpetrators of the most heinous crimes can be regarded a tool of oppression in a (neo-)colonial sense.

This volume explores an important, yet under-researched, area of sentencing law and practice: the use of mitigating and aggravating factors.

The history of international criminal justice told through the revealing stories of some of its primary intellectual figures.

Adopting a global approach, Fitzmaurice analyses the laws that shaped modern European empires from medieval times to the twentieth century.

Among the best-known and most esteemed people known from antiquity is the Babylonian king Hammurabi.

This book provides a holistic overview of the English and Welsh system of criminal justice, from the earliest stages of investigation and arrest through to the punishment and release of offenders.

Challenging traditional accounts of the development of American private law, Peter Karsten offers an important new perspective on the making of the rules of common law and equity in nineteenth-century courts.

Following the rise of the zemiological movement, the concept of social harm has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention.

This book sheds new light on the ongoing fight to end prostitution through a historical study of its emotional communities.

Seventeenth-century England was a country obsessed with property rights.

Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, Eleventh Edition, offers a broad perspective on criminological theory.

The yearning for historical justice - that is, for the redress of past wrongs - has become one of the defining features of our age.

The problem of prosecuting individuals complicit in the Nazi regime's "e;Final Solution"e; is almost insurmountably complex and has produced ever less satisfying results as time has passed.

Emmanuelle Jouannet explores the concept of international law from the European Enlightenment to the post-Cold War world.

The essays in this volume discuss feuding and peacemaking in France during a period extending from the mid-10th to the early 12th century.

Taking the shifting global drug policy terrain as a starting point, this collection moves beyond debates about whether to reform drug policies to a focus on delivering 'drug policy justice' - repairing the damage caused by the war on drugs as a component of reform efforts and safeguarding against future harms in legal markets.

This book critically explores the development of radical criminological thought through the social, political and cultural history of three periods in Ancient Greece: the Classical, the Hellenistic and the Greco-Roman periods.

Originally published in 1983.

Discusses Upendra Baxi''s role as an Indian jurist and how his contributions have shaped our understanding of legal jurisprudence.

This book analyses the history of the international patent regime and the life science industries, both of which can be traced back to the late 19th century.

Presidents shape not only the course of history but also how Americans remember and retell that history.

["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.

Harold G.

Constitutionalism: Past, Present, and Future is the definitive collection of Dieter Grimm's most influential writings on constitutional thought and interpretation.

During the Victorian era, new laws allowed more witnesses to testify in court cases.

This book examines the relationship between flexible regional economic integration in the East African Community (EAC), through its application of variable geometry, and the establishment of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) as a continent-wide form of integration.

The first volume of the Trends in Corrections: Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World series introduced readers to the great diversity that exists cross-culturally in the political, social, and economic context of the correctional system.

Having arriving in the Province of Maine in 1641 with a brief to create both government and law for the fledgling colony, Thomas Gorges later recorded his policy as having 'steared as neere as we could to the course of Ingland'.

Harold G.

This impressive volume is the first attempt to look at the intertwined histories of natural law and the laws of nature in early modern Europe.

This book examines how human rights came to define the bounds of universal morality during the political crises and conflicts of the twentieth century.

Walter Ullmann's contribution to the study of medieval political and legal thought needs no emphasis.

The interaction of faith and the community is a fundamental of modern society.

This document collection highlights the legal challenges, historical preconceptions, and political undercurrents that had informed the UN Genocide Convention, its form, contents, interpretation, and application.

On March 8, 1971, the Supreme Court of the United States decided a case, Griggs v.

This book explores the complicated relationship between constitutions and transitional justice.

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive historical-geographical lens to the development and evolution of correctional institutions as a specific subset of carceral geographies.

Research on sexual violence has been a growing area of academic study since the 1970s.

Private International Law is often criticized for failing to curb private power in the transnational realm.