Late imperial Russia's criminal justice system examined through its most prominent public casesIn this book, lawyer and historian Sergei Antonov examines the largest and most prominent criminal cases following the landmark judicial reform of 1864 that introduced the public jury trial.
Well after the process of codification had begun elsewhere in nineteenth-century Europe, ancient Roman law remained in use in Germany, expounded by brilliant scholars and applied in both urban and rural courts.
In this memoir, Livingston takes readers on an extraordinary journey far beyond the tourist path to confront deep-seated injustices shaped by history, empire, war, and disaster.
How to regulate the transfer of wealth from one generation to the next has been hotly debated among politicians, legal scholars, sociologists, economists, and philosophers for centuries.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Jura - Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtssoziologie, Rechtsgeschichte, Note: 14 (sehr gut), Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Institut für Rechtsgeschichte), Veranstaltung: Seminar zum Rechtshistorikertag 2024 - Die Sprache der Quellen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Während die im Kontext der Dekolonialisierung begangenen Massenverbrechen völkerstrafrechtlich ungesühnt blieben, gab es verschiedene Versuche, das Nürnberger Kriegsverbrechertribunal der Jahre 1945/46 zu instrumentalisieren und eine Verfolgung der Täter zu erreichen.
Challenging traditional accounts of the development of American private law, Peter Karsten offers an important new perspective on the making of the rules of common law and equity in nineteenth-century courts.
The stereotype of the gold digger has had a fascinating trajectory in twentieth-century America, from tales of greedy flapper-era chorus girls to tabloid coverage of Anna Nicole Smith and her octogenarian tycoon husband.
In an auditorium in Belcourt, North Dakota, on a chilly October day in 1932, Robert Bruce and his fellow tribal citizens held the political fate of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in their hands.
In this concise history of expropriation of land for the common good in Europe and North America from medieval times to 1800, Susan Reynolds contextualizes the history of an important legal doctrine regarding the relationship between government and the institution of private property.
Distinguished by the critical value it assigns to law in Puritan society, this study describes precisely how the Massachusetts legal system differed from Englands and how equity and an adapted common law became so useful to ordinary individuals.
The development of the modern Yale Law School is deeply intertwined with the story of a group of students in the 1960s who worked to unlock democratic visions of law and social change that they associated with Yales past and with the social climate in which they lived.
Combining legal and social history, Bruce Mann explores the relationship between law and society from the mid-seventeenth century to the eve of the Revolution.
From the Mormon Churchs public announcement of its sanction of polygamy in 1852 until its formal decision to abandon the practice in 1890, people on both sides of the Mormon question debated central questions of constitutional law.
In this first comprehensive study of womens property rights in early America, Marylynn Salmon discusses the effect of formal rules of law on womens lives.
In the years of expanding state authority following the Black Death, English common law permitted the leasing of parishes by their rectors and vicars, who then pursued interests elsewhere and left the parish in the control of lay lessees.
Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Jura - Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtssoziologie, Rechtsgeschichte, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Demokratie und Selbstverwaltung sind zwei markante Rechtsbegriffe einer freien Gesellschaft.
Every day, in courtrooms around the United States, thousands of criminal defendants are represented by public defenders lawyers provided by the government for those who cannot afford private counsel.
Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Proving Pregnancy documents how womenBlack and white, enslaved and freegradually lost control over reproduction to male medical and legal professionals.
Yoga and mindfulness activities, with roots in Asian traditions such as Hinduism or Buddhism, have been brought into growing numbers of public schools since the 1970s.
Distinguished by the critical value it assigns to law in Puritan society, this study describes precisely how the Massachusetts legal system differed from Englands and how equity and an adapted common law became so useful to ordinary individuals.
Allen Steinberg brings to life the courtcentered criminal justice system of nineteenthcentury Philadelphia, chronicles its eclipse, and contrasts it to the system dominated by the police and public prosecutor that replaced it.
In Reconstructing the Household, Peter Bardaglio examines the connections between race, gender, sexuality, and the law in the nineteenth-century South.
In this memoir, Livingston takes readers on an extraordinary journey far beyond the tourist path to confront deep-seated injustices shaped by history, empire, war, and disaster.
Offering a window into the history of the modern legal profession in Western Europe, Stephen Jacobson presents a history of lawyers in the most industrialized city on the Mediterranean.
In this concise history of expropriation of land for the common good in Europe and North America from medieval times to 1800, Susan Reynolds contextualizes the history of an important legal doctrine regarding the relationship between government and the institution of private property.
Allen Steinberg brings to life the courtcentered criminal justice system of nineteenthcentury Philadelphia, chronicles its eclipse, and contrasts it to the system dominated by the police and public prosecutor that replaced it.
