Legal history

this work considers the historical development of the Act on International Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters, which came into effect in 1983.

Diese Studie untersucht die Bedingungen legitimer Herrschaft und begründet, dass sie nur in einer gestuften globalen Ordnung realisiert werden können.

Das Thema Laster im Mittelalter zeichnet sich durch seine Kontinuität über das gesamte Mittelalter aus und hat seine Wurzeln in der Spätantike und seine Nachwirkungen in der Neuzeit.

Die vorliegende Arbeit behandelt die kulturelle Praxis im Umgang mit Texten in der spätmittelalterlichen Öffentlichkeit.

Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, Eleventh Edition, offers a broad perspective on criminological theory.

Die beiden Bände gehen auf eine internationale Tagung im Oktober 2006 über die Goldene Bulle Kaiser Karls IV.

Das Buch enthält eine kommentierte Sammlung von 87 Briefen und Postkarten des 17- bis 25-jährigen Carl Schmitt an seine Schwester Auguste.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Petrus Canisius SJ (1521-1597)" verfügbar.

Nach gängiger Ansicht endet das Heilige Römische Reich Deutscher Nation und mit ihm das Reichskammergericht am 6.

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 handbook offers a collection of scholarly essays that analyze questions of reproductive justice throughout its cultural representation in global literature and film.

This book explores the constitutional debates of the Year 3 of the French Revolution (also known as Year 1 of the French Republic) and the drafts for the Declaration and the Constitution of 1793.

This book provides a long history of France's infamous indigenat regime, from its origins in Algeria to its contested practices and legacies in France's South Pacific territory of New Caledonia.

This book deals with one of the most pervasive ways by which people have addressed authority throughout history: petitioning.

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This book, based on a fresh understanding of Scottish governmental records rooted in extensive archival research, offers the first study of these important institutions in a period of revived royal authority.

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 is intended for those in the humanities seeking a legal context for writing about rape in early modern England.

This book focuses on the history of the provision of legal aid and legal assistance to the poor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in eight different countries.

This book frames British Romanticism as the artistic counterpart to a revolution in subjectivity occasioned by the rise of "e;The Rule of Law"e; and as a traumatic response to the challenges mounted against that ideal after the French Revolution.

This book focuses, from a legal perspective, on a series of events which make up some of the principal episodes in the legal history of religion in Ireland: the anti-Catholic penal laws of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century; the shift towards the removal of disabilities from Catholics and dissenters; the dis-establishment of the Church of Ireland; and the place of religion, and the Catholic Church, under the Constitutions of 1922 and 1937.

This book explores sexual violence and crime in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s, a period of intense social and legal change.

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.

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 presents Ibn Khaldun's anticipatory sociology of civilisations and power.

This book considers the law, policy and procedure for child witnesses in Australian criminal courts across the twentieth century.

This present book examines some of the key features of the interplay between legal history, authoritarian rule and political transitions in Brazil and other countries from the end of 20th Century until today.

This book critically explores the development of radical criminological thought through the social, political and cultural history of three periods in Ancient Greece: the Classical, the Hellenistic and the Greco-Roman periods.

This book offers new international perspectives on captivity in wartime during the twentieth century.

This book explores the history of public land tenure records, which first began in colonial Massachusetts as English settlers and Native Americans tried to resolve differing ideas about rights to land in the seventeenth century.