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.
First published in 1938 A Constitutional History of England presents a comprehensive overview of various aspects and problems of English Constitutional history.
First published in 1938 A Constitutional History of England presents a comprehensive overview of various aspects and problems of English Constitutional history.
Gegen bestehende Vorurteile und Widerstände hält auch im Geltungsbereich der nordwestdeutschen Höfeordnung die gemeinschaftlich betriebene Landwirtschaft in Form von Gesellschaftsbetrieben Einzug.
As legal education faces fresh challenges and opportunities, and a growing literature calls for subversive new approaches, this book engages with vital questions about the place of history in the law school.
As legal education faces fresh challenges and opportunities, and a growing literature calls for subversive new approaches, this book engages with vital questions about the place of history in the law school.
This book examines the difficult relationship between individual intellectual freedom and the legal structures which govern human societies in William Blake's works, showing that this tension carries a political urgency that has not yet been recognised by scholars in the field.
This book examines the difficult relationship between individual intellectual freedom and the legal structures which govern human societies in William Blake's works, showing that this tension carries a political urgency that has not yet been recognised by scholars in the field.
The world remembers Nuremberg, where a handful of Nazi policymakers were brought to justice, but nearly forgotten are the proceedings at Dachau, where hundreds of Nazi guards, officers, and doctors stood trial for personally taking part in the torture and execution of prisoners inside Dachau, Mauthausen, Flossenburg, and Buchenwald concentration camps.
The revised tenth edition of this core textbook provides an understanding of major world criminal justice systems by discussing and comparing the systems of six of the world's countries - each representative of a different type of legal system.
This book investigates the institutionalized process, basic laws, and evolutionary trends of the patent system based on the analytical model of evolutionary theory and deploying a historical and comparative approach.
This collection of seventeen original essays reshapes the field of early American legal history not by focusing simply on law, or even on the relationship between law and society, but by using the concept of legality to explore the myriad ways in which the people of early America ordered their relationships with one another, whether as individuals, groups, classes, communities, or states.
This book investigates the institutionalized process, basic laws, and evolutionary trends of the patent system based on the analytical model of evolutionary theory and deploying a historical and comparative approach.
This engaging textbook provides a broad and unique coverage of the key historical events that shaped ideas in criminology, criminal justice and policing from the late seventeenth century to the early twenty-first century in England and Wales.
First published in 1980, Jewish Jurisprudence is the first volume of an important series analysing and setting forth the substantive principles of Jewish jurisprudence.
First published in 1980, Jewish Jurisprudence is the first volume of an important series analysing and setting forth the substantive principles of Jewish jurisprudence.
For over a century, many have struggled to turn the Constitution's prime goal "e;to establish Justice"e; into reality for Americans who cannot afford lawyers through civil legal aid.