Legal history

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history.

The Youth Court Guide is the definitive legal handbook for practitioners involved in the youth court.

This book considers the rarely studied but pervasive concepts of doubt that medieval Muslim jurists used to resolve problematic criminal cases.

Silver Gavel Award, Honorable MentionScribes Merit AwardIn June 2001, there was a decidedly new look to the graduating class at Virginia Military Institute.

This volume brings together a group of contributors from varied backgrounds to tell a history of intellectual property in 50 objects.

From Bedroom to Courtroom argues that the fictional trial scenes in the Greek ideal romances reflect Roman legal institutions and ideas, particularly relating to family and sexuality.

More than twenty-five years after the collapse of the Socialist bloc, the nature of the regimes in Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1989 continues to evade the attempts of political theorists and scholars of post-communism to define and classify them.

Offers historical, philosophical, legal, and political insights into the First Amendment, religious liberty, and church-state relations.

Illuminating a classic case from the turbulent civil rights era of the 1960s, two of Americas foremost legal historiansKermit Hall and Melvin Urofskyprovide a compact and highly readable updating of one of the most memorable decisions in the Supreme Courts canon.

This book provides a critique of current international law-making and draws on a set of principles from Persian philosophers to present an alternative to influence the development of international law-making procedure.

This timely manual presents a new perspective on teaching and learning focused on countering the impacts of trauma on adults' ability to learn.

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Throughout much of the western world more and more people are being sent to prison, one of a number of changes inspired by a 'new punitiveness' in penal and political affairs.

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms may only be thirty-five years old but it is an important document for all Canadians.

Americas legal consciousness was high during the era that saw the imprisonment of abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison, the execution of slave revolutionary Nat Turner, and the hangings of John Brown and his Harpers Ferry co-conspirators.

Sexual Violence on Trial provides a contemporary critical examination of the investigation, prosecution and cultural contexts of sexual violence.

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This latest collection of studies by James Brundage deals with the emergence of the profession of canon law and with aspects of its practice in the period from the 12th to the 14th 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).

This book systematically defends an account of the institution of legal punishment that draws on both retributive and crime-prevention thinking.

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.

From the mid-1960s through the mid-1990s, Canada was in a state of ongoing political crisis.

The ability of US Supreme Court justices to dissent from the majority, to formally register and explain their belief that a case has been wrongly decided, represents a time-honored tradition of perhaps the most august American institution.

This book investigates the actions of marriage tribunals by analyzing the richest source of marriage suits extant in Italy, those of the Venetian ecclesiastical tribunal, between 1420 and the opening of the Council of Trent.

This book investigates how bishops deployed reward and punishment to control their administrative subordinates in thirteenth-century England.

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

This book is an inquiry into how contingency fees distort our civil justice system, influence our political system and endanger democratic governance.

Die Kriminalgeschichte Österreichs vom Mittelalter bis zur GegenwartWelche Delikte waren früher mit dem Tode bedroht?

This book addresses the ethical and practical issues at stake in the reconciliation of Indigenous and non-indigenous communities.

In the last half-century, the Supreme Court of Canada has undergone major upheaval.

Since 1943, the lives of Brazilian working people and their employers have been governed by the Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT).

This groundbreaking book examines the changing Chinese legal system since 1978.

Examines the origins of English insurance, focusing on the first English insurance code and its proximity to continental mercantile practice.

Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life After Punishment addresses the reasons why people stop offending, and the processes by which they are rehabilitated or resettled back into the community.

Distinguished by the critical value it assigns to law in Puritan society, this study describes precisely how the Massachusetts legal system differed from England's and how equity and an adapted common law became so useful to ordinary individuals.

This book explores the concept of punishment: its meaning and significance, not least to those subject to it; its social, political and emotional contexts; its role in the criminal justice system; and the difficulties of bringing punishment to an end.

A chronological history of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, from its beginnings in the 1830s to the present.

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.

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the principal legal landmarks in the evolution of the law of the established Church of England from the Reformation to the present day.

This study provides a comprehensive critique - forensic, historical, and theoretical - of the moral panic paradigm, using empirically grounded ethnographic research to argue that the panic paradigm suffers from fundamental flaws that make it a myth rather than a viable academic perspective.

Getting divorced and remarried are now common practices in European societies, even if the rules differ from one country to the next.