This book examines the legal principle of judicial independence in comparative perspective with the goal of advancing a better understanding of the idea of an independent judiciary more generally.
This book traces the development of Oman's inclusive agreements and highlights their importance for international negotiations, dealing with issues most relevant to humanity's own survival today, nuclear weapons or climate change.
This book provides an original and multidisciplinary approach on Magna Carta (1215) as a joint heritage, a source of inspiration both for long established democracies and countries which only recently experienced the Rule of Law.
As the centenary of the Treaty of Versailles approaches, this book presents the pre-1914 precursors to the interwar naval arms treaties arising from the peace of 1919, providing a fresh perspective on arms control efforts through an interdisciplinary approach.
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.
Originally published in 1985, Imprisonment in England and Wales is an account of the changing functions and conditions of imprisonment in England and Wales from the Medieval period to the present day.
1944/45 sind die "Entscheidungen des Reichsgerichts in Zivilsachen" (RGZ) und die " Entscheidungen des Reichsgerichts in Strafsachen" (RGSt) kriegsbedingt unvollendet geblieben.
1944/45 sind die "Entscheidungen des Reichsgerichts in Zivilsachen" (RGZ) und die " Entscheidungen des Reichsgerichts in Strafsachen" (RGSt) kriegsbedingt unvollendet geblieben.
This book takes a closer look at colonial despotism in early nineteenth-century India and argues that it resulted from Indians' forum shopping, the legal practice which resulted in jurisdictional jockeying between an executive, the East India Company, and a judiciary, the King's Court.
Gerechtigkeit findet nicht nur zwischen Zeitgenossen statt - auch das Handeln früher lebender Menschen kann Ansprüche und Pflichten gegenwärtig und zukünftig lebender Menschen begründen.
Die Herausgeber, Vertreter der Fächer Altes Testament und Alte Geschichte, legen mit Kollegen anderer Disziplinen zusammen ein interkulturelles Projekt zur Gesetzgebung in antiken Gesellschaften vor.
This book provides an introduction to human rights controversies in twentieth-century France, from the Dreyfus Affair at the beginning of the century, to the arguments over women and immigrants' rights at its end.
This volume provides an overview of selected major areas of legal and institutional development in Lithuania since the Restoration of Independence in 1990.
Das Buch wendet sich nicht allein an Studenten mit ausgeprägten historischen Interessen, sondern an die Rechtsstudentinnen und Rechtsstudenten überhaupt.
