This collection brings together historians, political theorists and literary scholars to provide historical perspectives on the modern debate over freedom of speech, particularly the question of whether limitations might be necessary given religious pluralism and concerns about hate speech.
This volume draws on the recently discovered and extraordinarily rich scrapbook compiled by prosecuting solicitor Francis Hobler about the 1840 murder of Lord William Russell to consider public engagement with the issues raised from discovery of the murder itself through the ensuing legal processes.
This publication seeks to explain the nature of settlements termed "e;urban villages"e; as set within the context of growing levels of urbanization in contemporary Pacific towns and cities.
A study of the man who led the Supreme Court as the nineteenth century ended and the twentieth began, exploring issues of property, government authority, and more.
Henry Ford is remembered in American lore as the ultimate entrepreneur-the man who invented assembly-line manufacturing and made automobiles affordable.
The book addresses efforts to politically influence and curb the judicial system, by telling the story of the enactment of controversial laws in Norway in 1927.
The current discussion on the rule of law, especially in the EU, seems to be developing because the terms that express the idea of the rule of law in different European languages do not convey the same content.
Die beiden Hauptwerke Ulpians, die gleichsam den Grundstock der europäischen Rechtswissenschaft bilden, gelten seit einem Jahrhundert als lemmatische Kommentare - zu Unrecht, wie man im Fall des Ediktskommentars schon weiß.
The feudal system has come to be seen as one of the most characteristic features of the Western Middle Ages, yet the study of feudal law has not always received the same attention as that given to its institutions.
Die vorliegende Arbeit beleuchtet die Straftheorie des Schriftstellers und Denkers Leo Tolstoi in ihrem zeitgeschichtlichen Kontext und stellt ihre Elemente umfassend dar.
The second of two volumes, this book about the criminology of Carlo Morselli includes a diversity of contributions that study the social inter-dependence of criminal phenomena.
Der durch seine Schrift „Staatsdämmerung" (2007) bekannte Autor – Rechtsphilosoph und Strafrechtshistoriker – legt hier vierzehn Beiträge zum Werk Wagners vor, das er „recht zu betrachten" unternimmt.
This is the first-and the only authorized-biography of Elbert Parr Tuttle (1897-1996), the judge who led the federal court with jurisdiction over most of the Deep South through the most tumultuous years of the civil rights revolution.
Die vorliegende Arbeit beleuchtet die Straftheorie des Schriftstellers und Denkers Leo Tolstoi in ihrem zeitgeschichtlichen Kontext und stellt ihre Elemente umfassend dar.
