Legal history

Heaven Has Eyes is a comprehensive but concise history of Chinese law and justice from the imperial era to the post-Mao era.

A historical look at the early evolution of global trade and how this led to the creation and dominance of the European business corporationBefore the seventeenth century, trade across Eurasia was mostly conducted in short segments along the Silk Route and Indian Ocean.

The Ninth Amendment has had a remarkably robust history, playing a role in almost every significant constitutional debate in American history, including the controversy over the Alien and Sedition Acts, the struggle over slavery, and the constitutionality of the New Deal.

In the mid-twentieth century, gay life flourished in American cities even as the state repression of queer communities reached its peak.

Among the last CIA agents airlifted from Saigon in the waning moments of the Vietnam War, Frank Snepp returned to headquarters determined to secure help for the Vietnamese left behind by an Agency eager to cut its losses.

The Literary and Legal Genealogy of Native American Dispossession offers a unique interpretation of how literary and public discourses influenced three U.

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This book is a critical summary and exegesis of the work of Nicole Rafter, who was a leading scholar of the history of biological theories of crime causation as well as a profound theorist of the role of history within criminology.

The recent global financial crisis has been characterised as a turning point in the way we respond to financial crime.

Reading God's will and a man's Last Will as ideas that reinforce one another, this study shows the relevance of England's early modern crisis, regarding faith in the will of God, to current debates by legal academics on the theory of property and its succession.

Elizabeth and James, Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare, Bacon and Ellesmere, Perkins and Laud, Milton and Hobbes-this begins a list of early modern luminaries who write on 'equity'.

This volume on the law of the European Union focuses on contemporary challenges to EU legality.

The Collected Documents of The Group of 77 provides a chronological record of events and documents of the Group of 77 since its creation in 1963.

Fifty years ago, David Matza wrote Delinquency and Drift, challenging the ways people thought about the development of criminals.

Study of the making of law in England in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

The academic disciplines of law and sociocultural anthropology have a long but at times contentious history of drawing on each other in order to study and understand law and human experience in its diverse manifestations.

El gran historiador argentino del derecho, Víctor Tau Anzoátegui, escribió en 1987 una reseña en la revista Historia de la UC, en la que indicaba que «El libro que nos sirve de material básico para la reflexión fue impreso en Santiago en 1951 y publicado por la Facultad de Filosofía y Educación de la Universidad de Chile.

International human rights law has emerged as an academic subject in its own right, separate from, but still related to international law.

The names of James Joyce and Ezra Pound ring out in the annals of literary modernism, but few recognize the name of Samuel Roth.

In the last half-century, the Supreme Court of Canada has undergone major upheaval.

The nature of sweating and the origins of low pay legislation are of fundamental social, economic and moral importance.

One of the first to provide a socio-legal comparative history of under-studied or ignored Jewish attempts in the 1930s "e;Anglosphere"e; to counter the rise in fascist and Nazi antisemitism, this book examines the ways in which Jewish individuals and organized communal bodies in the mid-to-late 1930s sought to counter this increasing antisemitic violence, physical and verbal, by using the law against their fascist and Nazi attackers.

What impact did the printing press a new means of communicating the written word have on early modern English lawyers?

This book shows how, through a series of fierce battles over Sabbath laws, legislative chaplains, Bible-reading in public schools and other flashpoints, nineteenth-century secularists mounted a powerful case for a separation of religion and government.

This collection brings together a group of international legal historians to further scholarship in different areas of comparative and regional legal history.

An examination of how the modern idea of constitutional referendums developed and how direct democracy became possible in modern states.

How do lawyers, judges and jurors read novels?

Why should the law care about enforcing contracts?

Explores marriage, sexual relations, and family law in late antique Christianity using the writings of Ephrem the Syrian.

Provides theoretical and practical insights into how the new phenomenon of human rights cities contributes to global urban justice.

Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World surveys the ways in which people from the time of Luther and Columbus to that of Thomas Jefferson used Christian ideas and institutions to regulate and shape sexual norms and conduct, and examines the impact of their efforts.

Russia is often portrayed as a regressive, even lawless country, and yet the Russian state has played a major role in shaping and experimenting with law as an instrument of power.

The Iowa State Constitution provides the most comprehensive analysis of Iowa's constitutional history and the development of its individual provisions.

Female Crime, first published in 1987, surveys the major schools of criminology in order to explore the images of the female offender which underpin many contemporary crime theories.

Originally published in 1922, Juvenile Delinquency was written while the author was Director of the Ohio Bureau of Juvenile Research.

The Nazis and their state-sponsored cohorts stole mercilessly from the Jews of Europe.

This book explores the complicated relationship between constitutions and transitional justice.

Adopting a global approach, Fitzmaurice analyses the laws that shaped modern European empires from medieval times to the twentieth century.

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.

Die Akten des Reichshofrates gehören zu den interessantesten archivalischen Beständen für die Geschichte des Heiligen Römischen Reiches.

This book challenges conventional assumptions about the afterlife of Magna Carta and tells a new story.

This book explores the implications of globalisation for the theoretical study of law, justice, and human rights.

Addressing one of the most controversial and emotive issues of American history, this book presents a thorough reexamination of the background, dynamics, and decline of American lynching.

World War I and the American Constitution analyzes how the First World War transformed American constitutional law.

The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France provides the first comprehensive comparison of the printed debates in the 1500s over the superiority or inferiority of woman - the Querelle des femmes - and the dignity and misery of man.