Legal history

Law and Justice: Thomas Bingham, Nicholas Phillips and Eleanor Sharpston is the first time a collection of interviews is being published as a book.

Band 1 der Reihe "Jenaer Schriften zum DDR Recht" beinhaltet Aufsätze, die im Oktober 2019 anlässlich der Eröffnung der Forschungsstelle unter der Schirmherrschaft und mit Förderung des Thüringer Ministeriums für Migration, Justiz und Verbraucherschutz in Jena in Vortragsform präsentiert worden sind.

This book looks at responsible government under the Australian Constitution.

On the early morning of March 16, 1968, American soldiers from three platoons of Charlie Company (1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division), entered a group of hamlets located in the Son Tinh district of South Vietnam, located near the Demilitarized Zone and known as "e;Pinkville"e; because of the high level of Vietcong infiltration.

This book maps the problems and possibilities of the policies and practices designed to tackle violence against women in the domestic sphere over the last 40 years.

An innovative recasting of US legal and economic history through the power of clothing for those who lacked power and status in American society.

Oxford's variorum edition of William Blackstone's seminal treatise on the common law of England and Wales offers the definitive account of the Commentaries' development in a modern format.

On 18 October 1929, John Sankey, England's reform-minded Lord Chancellor, ruled in the Persons case that women were eligible for appointment to Canada's Senate.

These are papers from the 10th Cambridge Tax Law History Conference, which took place in July 2020.

Fresh approaches to how premodern women were viewed in legal terms, demonstrating how this varied from country to country and across the centuries.

Global Perspectives on Interventions in Forensic Therapeutic Communities: A Practitioner's Guide explores the validity and effectiveness of secure settings as therapeutic communities (TCs).

What remains anti-democratic in our criminal justice systems, and where does it come from?

In this book, Catherine Frost uses evidence and case studies to offer a re-examination of declarations of independence and the language that comprises such documents.

Predictive Sentencing addresses the role of risk assessment in contemporary sentencing practices.

Der erste Band dokumentiert die Wahlfälschungsverfahren.

In Law in American History, Volume III: 1930-2000, the eminent legal scholar G.

In 2015 the College of Policing published its Leadership Review with specific reference to the type of leadership required to ensure that the next generation of Chief Constables and their management approach will be fit for purpose.

This book poses a question that is deceptive in its simplicity: could international law have been otherwise?

Frontier Democracy examines the debates over state constitutions in the antebellum Northwest (Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin) from the 1820s–50s.

Il est facile mais réducteur de voir, dans la séparation de deux phases au sein du courant critique américain (différent du courant européen), un affrontement politique tournant autour de la notion de droits.

The question these articles seek to respond to, in this fifth collection by Jean Gaudemet to be published by Variorum, is how the intellectual elite of the medieval Church perceived the institutions among which they lived - how they portrayed them, and how they sought to influence them.

Winner of the 2017 British Society of Criminology Book Prize The penal voluntary sector and the relationships between punishment and charity are more topical than ever before.

Originally published in 1976.

This book draws on contemporary legal scholarship to explain why Athens was a remarkably well-ordered society.

Explores a Washington, DC slave trader''s legal misadventures associated with transporting convict slaves through New Orleans.

Auerbach here focuses on the elite nature of the profession, examining its emphasis on serving business interests and its attempts to exclude participation by minorities.

Sir Frederick Pollock wrote that 'English-speaking lawyers .

One of the great paradoxes of post-medieval Europe, is why instead of bringing peace to a disorganised and violent world, modernity instead produced a seemingly endless string of conflicts and social upheavals.

In our pursuit of efficiency in the lower criminal courts, have we lost sight of quality justice?

First published in 1991, this book - through the examination of ancient Greek literary, philosophical and legal texts - analyses how the Athenian torture of slaves emerged from and reinforced the concept of truth as something hidden in the human body.

Crime is undergoing a metamorphosis.

Prepared by Patrick J.

A great deal has been written about the political, policy and practice changes that have shaped probation work but little has been written on the changes to occupational cultures and the ways in which probation workers themselves view their role.

Containing 40 visually coded maps of the fifty states, this book offers an unprecedented look at America's diverse legal landscape.