Legal history

This book investigates how bishops deployed reward and punishment to control their administrative subordinates in thirteenth-century England.

This volume examines the relationship between Christian legal theory and the fields of private law.

There are many histories of the police as a law-enforcement institution, but no genealogy of the police as a form of power.

This edited collection, written by both established and new researchers, reveals the experiences of litigating women across premodern Europe and captures the current state of research in this ever-growing field.

Much has changed in the fashion industry since the end of World War II to require more highly developed legal skills and, happily, a much greater allocation to legal expense.

Originally published in English in 1985, this book concentrates on the people of the Middle Ages and how they saw the world they lived in.

Examines early modern Spanish contributions to international relations by focusing on ambivalence of natural rights in European colonial expansion to the Americas.

First published in 1981, this book traces the history of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) from 1897-1914.

While Irish historical writing has long been in thrall to the perceived sectarian character of the legal system, this collection is the first to concentrate attention on the actual relationship that existed between the Irish population and the state under which they lived from the War of the Two Kings (1689-1691) to the Great Famine (1845-1849).

Recent historians have pinpointed the ways in which legal systems in early modern Europe were improvisational, flexible, and contingent rather than immovable, hierarchical, and gendered.

Islamic law influences the lives of Muslims today as aspects of the law are applied as part of State law in different forms in many areas of the world.

This book is an ambitious attempt to map the main changes in the criminal justice system in the Victorian period through to the twentieth century.

A new perspective on the history of transitional justice and why the discourse prioritises particular responses to human rights violations.

This book describes how the international spread of antitrust suggested the historical process shaping global capitalism.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Zur Rechtsgeschichte der Territorialgewässer: Reede, Strom und Küstengewässer" verfügbar.

Looking at the experiences of women in early modern Portugal in the context of crime and forgiveness, this study demonstrates the extent to which judicial and quasi-judicial records can be used to examine the implications of crime in women's lives, whether as victims or culprits.

This volume examines the relationship between Christian legal theory and the fields of private law.

This book brings to life the major theories of crime and deviance by presenting detailed profiles that help readers differentiate each theory and its major propositions by better understanding how, when, and by whom the theory was formed.

These are the papers from the 8th Cambridge Tax Law History Conference held in July 2016.

Profiles nineteen of America''s greatest Christian jurists from the early colonial era to the present day.

The emphasis in this present volume of Professor Feenstra's studies lies on the post-medieval development of legal scholarship.

This book examines the evolution of Australian unemployment law and policy across the past 100 years.

On July 6, 1892, three hundred armed Pinkerton agents arrived in Homestead, Pennsylvania to retake the Carnegie Steelworks from the company's striking workers.

Recalibrating Juvenile Detention chronicles the lessons learned from the 2007 to 2015 landmark US District Court-ordered reform of the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC) in Illinois, following years of litigation by the ACLU about egregious and unconstitutional conditions of confinement.

When Women Won the Vote focuses on the final decade (1910-1920) of American women's fight for the vote-a fight that had already been underway for more than sixty years, and which culminated in the passage of the 19th amendment in 1920.

This book untangles the components of police education and advocates a robust community-based training model with significant civilian oversight.

This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the role played by law(s) in the British Empire.

The Dred Scott case is the most notorious example of slaves suing for freedom.

This book approaches the subject of late Roman law from the perspective of legal practice revealed in courtroom processes, as well as more 'informal' types of dispute settlement.

Indian peoples made some four hundred treaties with the United States between the American Revolution and 1871, when Congress prohibited them.

For most Americans, habeas corpus is the cornerstone of our legal system: the principal constitutional check on arbitrary government power, allowing an arrested person to challenge the legality of his detention.

George Heiman has translated the discussion of classical and early Christian laws of association from the major works by Grotto Gierke, Das deutsche Genossenschaftsrecht.

This volume brings together papers by a group of scholars, distinguished in their own right, in honour of James Brundage.

Today, every continent retains elements of the legal code distributed by the British empire.

The greatly expanded and enhanced 2nd edition of A World History of War Crimes provides an authoritative and accessible introduction to the global history of war crimes and the laws of war.

In seventeenth-century France, families were essential as both agents and objects in the shaping of capitalism and growth of powerful states - phenomena that were critical to the making of the modern world.

In The Responsibility to Protect: The Promise of Stopping Mass Atrocities in Our Time, Jared Genser and Irwin Cotler provide a comprehensive overview on how this contemporary principle of international law has developed and analyze how best to apply it to current and future humanitarian crises.

A study of the legal origins of antislavery, and how Colombian slaves transformed ideas on slavery, freedom and political belonging.

The problem of prosecuting individuals complicit in the Nazi regime's "e;Final Solution"e; is almost insurmountably complex and has produced ever less satisfying results as time has passed.

Relying on a multidisciplinary framework of inquiry and critical perspective, this edited volume addresses the unique experiences of Black males within various stages of contact in the criminal justice system.

In December 1883, Peter Lazier was shot in the heart during a bungled robbery at a Prince Edward County farmhouse.

Since the beginning of the Obama Administration, conservative politicians have railed against the President's "e;War on Coal.

In 1952, the Hill family was held hostage by escaped convicts in their suburban Pennsylvania home.

The later twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a pivotal period for the development of European government and governance.

The study of police history in Scotland has largely been neglected.

The language of international criminal law has considerable traction in global politics, and much of its legitimacy is embedded in apparently 'axiomatic' historical truths.

The Danish medieval laws: the laws of Scania, Zealand and Jutland contains translations of the four most important medieval Danish laws written in the vernacular.