Legal history

This collection of essays honours Rosemary Auchmuty, Professor of Law at the University of Reading, UK.

Pedro Dorado Montero was one of Spain's most relevant authors.

Punitive damages are private law's most controversial remedy.

This is the fifth volume in a series charting the causes of war from 3000 BCE to the present day,written by a leading international lawyer.

This collection of essays honours Rosemary Auchmuty, Professor of Law at the University of Reading, UK.

In his first book since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Polio: An American Story, renowned historian David Oshinsky takes a new and closer look at the Supreme Courts controversial and much-debated stances on capital punishment-in the landmark case of Furman v.

Introduction to Criminal Justice, Tenth Edition, offers a student-friendly description of the criminal justice process-outlining the decisions, practices, people, and issues involved.

Punitive damages are private law's most controversial remedy.

This volume offers a long overdue appraisal of the dynamic interactions between Roman law and Latin literature.

This book shows how interpretations of suicidal motives were guided by gendered expectations of behaviour, and that these expectations were constructed to create meaning and understanding for family, friends and witnesses.

This book shows how interpretations of suicidal motives were guided by gendered expectations of behaviour, and that these expectations were constructed to create meaning and understanding for family, friends and witnesses.

This volume offers a long overdue appraisal of the dynamic interactions between Roman law and Latin literature.

By recovering a largely forgotten English Renaissance mindset that regarded sovereignty and Providence as being fundamentally entwined, Alexander Haskell reconnects concepts historians had before treated as separate categories and argues that the first English planters in Virginia operated within a deeply providential age rather than an era of early modern entrepreneurialism.

This is the fifth volume in a series charting the causes of war from 3000 BCE to the present day,written by a leading international lawyer.

Im frühen Mittelalter nimmt die Herrschaftsverfassung Japans zunehmend komplexe Züge an.

Polen stand nach dem Großen Krieg vor der Herausforderung der innerstaatlichen Rechtsvereinheitlichung über die Grenzen der europäischen Rechtskreise hinaus und der Integration in das System internationaler Rechtsnormen.

In late Ottoman South-Eastern Europe, traditional Ottoman law, court systems and court personnel on the one hand, and ultra-modern French and German/Austrian law on the other, clashed.

Richter entscheiden Rechtsstreitigkeiten.

By focusing on law, this book offers new insights into the history of religious liberty in colonial America.

De la obra de Cesare Beccaria se ha escrito que «fermentó en las conciencias, renovó las instituciones y cambió las costumbres, hasta convertirse en patrimonio moral, inconsciente pero irrenunciable, de toda la humanidad».

Combining insights from comparative legal theory, jurisprudence and legal history, this collection examines the legal and constitutional identity of Central and Eastern Europe.

Combining insights from comparative legal theory, jurisprudence and legal history, this collection examines the legal and constitutional identity of Central and Eastern Europe.

First published in 1981, Lawyers in Early Modern Europe and America aims to present a convenient conspectus on the legal professions in early modern Europe, Scotland, France Spain and Colonial America, and to provide a comparative perspective on the place of the legal profession in Western societies before the Industrial Revolution.

First published in 1981, Lawyers in Early Modern Europe and America aims to present a convenient conspectus on the legal professions in early modern Europe, Scotland, France Spain and Colonial America, and to provide a comparative perspective on the place of the legal profession in Western societies before the Industrial Revolution.

In 2007, for the first time in nearly seventy years, the Supreme Court decided to hear a case involving the Second Amendment.

First published in 1974, Authors, Publishers and Politicians describes the efforts to secure an Anglo-American copyright agreement.

Prognostik, Divination, Mantik und Wahrsagerei sind im mittelalterlichen Recht vielfach gegenwärtig.

Der norddeutsche Jurist David Mevius zählt zu den großen europäischen Gestalten des Usus modernus.

Das Werk bildet eine rechtswissenschaftliche Analyse der wesentlichen Bestimmungen desbayerischen Staatskirchenrechts von 1818.

Die Gerichtsbarkeit der Vormoderne war von einer nahezu unüberschaubaren Vielzahl an Gerichten unterschiedlicher Herrschaftsträger und sozialer Gruppen geprägt.

In diesem Band werden erstmals der Ablauf und die politischen Hintergründe von Herrscherrücktritten sowie die persönliche Motivation der Abdankenden umfassend untersucht.

First published in 1974, Authors, Publishers and Politicians describes the efforts to secure an Anglo-American copyright agreement.

Ulrich Eisenhardt wertet die Quellen zur Rechtsprechung der obersten Gerichte im Alten Reich zu den Gerichtsprivilegien aus und gelangt dabei zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Gerichtsverfassung des Reiches seit dem Mittelalter von den Gerichtsprivilegien, die der König bzw.

This compelling study of the American public's response to the fate of accused murderer Hattie Woolsteen uses this legal case to examine the complexities of gender history and societal fears about the changing roles of women during the Victorian era.

Für die juristische Untersuchung der kolonialrechtlichen Erwerbsprozesse sind die dem deutschen Zivilrecht immanenten Gerechtigkeitsideale und Billigkeitsgrundsätze maßgeblich.

Basierend auf einem umfangreichen Quellenstudium zeigt der Band, wie die Rechtsstellung des wissenschaftlichen Personals an der Universität Wien von 1848 bis 1938 theoretisch und praktisch ausgestaltet war.

By focusing on law, this book offers new insights into the history of religious liberty in colonial America.

Modern legal history is increasingly interested in exploring the development of legal systems from novel and nuanced approaches.

Modern legal history is increasingly interested in exploring the development of legal systems from novel and nuanced approaches.

This book analyses the transformation of consumer law and policy in Europe from 4 perspectives: first, the temporal transformation, i.

This Palgrave Pivot examines the history of the largely urban offence once known as vitriol throwing because the substance most commonly used was strong sulphuric acid, oil of vitriol.