This book features two presentations by Rodrigo Uprimny and Vivian Newman, both former directors of Dejusticia, that were delivered in 2020 to mark the occasion of the Tang Prize that was bestowed on Dejusticia that year.
Die in Berufsstand und Gesellschaft integrierten jüdischen Rechtsanwälte Bayerns traf die antisemitische Politik des Nationalsozialismus ab 1933 relativ unvorbereitet.
Wehrmacht in der NS-Diktatur Andreas Toppe geht in seiner aus dem Wehrmachtsprojekt des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte hervorgegangenen Studie der Frage nach, auf welche völkerrechtlichen Grundlagen sich die deutsche Kriegführung im Zweiten Weltkrieg stützte.
Hans-Jochen Vogel, der bekannte Politiker und Jurist, stellt in diesem Buch ein weiteres Mal kuriose Rechtsvorschriften aus dem königlichen Bayern vor, mit denen er bei der damaligen Bereinigung des bayerischen Landesrechts befasst war.
The period between 1860 and 1920inclusive of the Gilded Age and much of the Lochner era in legal historyis typically regarded as the heyday of conservative jurisprudence.
An Introduction to the Soviet Legal System (1969) sets the main features of modern Soviet law against their background in Russian legal history and Marxist political thought.
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.
This book delineates the discovery of a previously unknown manuscript of a letter from Granville Sharp, the first British abolitionist, to the "e;Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.
In this book Samantha Williams examines illegitimacy, unmarried parenthood and the old and new poor laws in a period of rising illegitimacy and poor relief expenditure.
This volume addresses an important historiographical gap by assessing the respective contributions of tradition and foreign influences to the 19th century codification of criminal law.
In this book, the ownership, distribution and sale of patent medicines across Georgian England are explored for the first time, transforming our understanding of healthcare provision and the use of the printed word in that era.
In this book, experts from the fields of law and philosophy explore the works of Aristotle to illuminate the much-debated and fascinating relationship between emotions and justice.
This book discusses the impact of war on the complex interactions between various actors involved in justice: individuals and social groups on the one hand and 'the justice system' (police, judiciary and professionals working in the prison service) on the other.
This book is based on an international project conducted by the Institute for European Studies of the University CEU San Pablo in Madrid and a seminar on Vitoria and International Law which took place on July 2nd 2015 in the convent of San Esteban, the place where Vitoria spent his most productive years as Chair of Theology at the University of Salamanca.
