Legal history

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In this book top scholars analyse the historic and contemporary influence of Magna Carta, challenging its common myths.

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?

Consent is used in many different social and legal contexts with the pervasiveunderstanding that it is, and has always been, about autonomy - but has it?

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James Donovan takes a comprehensive approach to the history of the jury in modern France by investigating the legal, political, sociocultural, and intellectual aspects of jury trial from the Revolution through the twentieth century.

This book charts the writing of the English constitution through the work of four of the most influential jurists in the history of English constitutional thought-Edmund Burke, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Walter Bagehot and Albert Venn Dicey.

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The Myth of the Queer Criminal documents over a century of writings by sociologists, psychologists, criminologists, and forensic scientists, in Europe and the United States, who asserted that LGBT persons were innately and uniquely criminal.

Written by leading experts in the field, this collection offers a critical and comparative analysis of the existing case law on international investment law.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

In a meticulously researched and engagingly written narrative, Brian McGinty rescues the story of Abraham Lincoln and the Supreme Court from long and undeserved neglect, recounting the compelling history of the Civil War president's relations with the nation's highest tribunal and the role it played in resolving the agonizing issues raised by the conflict.

This book analyses the institution and concept of dictatorship from a legal, historical and theoretical perspective, examining the different types of dictatorship, their relationship to the law, as well as the analytical value of the concept in contemporary world.

The Handbook on Inequalities in Sentencing and Corrections among Marginalized Populations offers state-of-the-art volumes on seminal and topical issues that span the fields of sentencing and corrections.

This book provides a complement to Dicey's The Law of the Constitution.

Der Tagungsband legt ein klares Bekenntnis zur Strafrechtsgeschichte ab, die in Forschung und Lehre eher ein Nischendasein führt.

This book examines the influence of constitutional legal paradigms upon the political stability and viability of states.

The development of the modern Yale Law School is deeply intertwined with the story of a group of students in the 1960s who worked to unlock democratic visions of law and social change that they associated with Yale's past and with the social climate in which they lived.

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

Robespierre was one of the most powerful and the most feared leaders of the French Revolution.

The Routledge International Handbook of Perpetrator Studies traces the growth of an important interdisciplinary field, its foundations, key debates and core concerns, as well as highlighting current and emerging issues and approaches and pointing to new directions for enquiry.

Originally published in 1951, The British Police describes the different types of police force, the powers and functions of local police authorities, the ways in which control from the centre is exercised, and the effect of the Local Government Boundary Commission's proposals on police areas at the time.

In recent years, in the context of the War on Terror and globalization, there has been an increased interest in terrorism and organized crime in academia, yet historical research into such phenomena is relatively scarce.

'The law of libel is the instrument of censorship by which dignity-too often pseudo-dignity-is to be upheld.

In the immediate aftermath of the armistice that ended the First World War, the Allied nations of Britain, France, and Italy agreed to put the fallen German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II on trial, in what would be the first ever international criminal tribunal.

This book is concerned with the origins of the often difficult relationship between the Metropolitan Police and London's West Indian community, and is the first detailed account of the relationship between them during the crucial early decades of largescale immigration.

For many Americans, the birth certificate is a mundane piece of paper, unearthed from deep storage when applying for a drivers license, verifying information for new employers, or claiming state and federal benefits.

This collection presents and analyzes inquest records that tell the stories of ordinary Korean people under the Choson court (1392-1910).

When the first volume of Morton Horwitz's monumental history of American law appeared in 1977, it was universally acclaimed as one of the most significant works ever published in American legal history.

The Dual State, first published in 1941, remains one of the most erudite books on the logic of dictatorship.

This compilation represents the first study to examine the historical evolution and shifting global dynamics of policing across the Lusophone community.

Language shapes and reflects how we think about the world.

American criminal justice is a dysfunctional mess.

This book shows how Rwanda''s mass courts for genocide crimes helped ensure political stability and authoritarian control for Rwandan elites.

This volume offers a critical and creative analysis of the innovations of Deathscapes, a transnational digital humanities project that maps the sites and distributions of custodial deaths in locations such as police cells, prisons and immigration detention centres.

This book provides a comprehensive, introductory text for students taking courses in crime and criminal justice history.

A wide-ranging comparative and in-depth examination of ancient legal systems and legal thought in ancient Western and Eastern societies.

Donations, Inheritance and Property in the Nordic and Western World from Late Antiquity until Today presents an examination of Nordic donation and gift-giving practices in the Nordic and Western world, beginning in late Antiquity and extending through to the present day.

This book presents a comparative study of desistance from crime by analysing and comparing the narratives of English and French desisters.

On April 16, 1972, ten thousand people gathered in Central Park to protest New York's liberal abortion law.

Who enjoys statutory preferred creditor status?