Legal history

The protests following Iran's fraudulent 2009 Presidential election took the world by storm.

Every subject of the Russian Empire had an official, legal place in society marked by his or her social estate, or soslovie.

For almost sixty years, the results of the New Deal have been an accepted part of political life.

In an extraordinary history of the criminal trial, Sadakat Kadri shows with wit, legal insight and a travel writer's eye for detail, how the irrationality of the past lives on in the legal systems of the present.

La temática central del texto es el examen de las formas de conflicto que nacieron en la progresiva definición de las formas jurídicas de la nueva república después de la independencia, en particular, de la creación de una sociedad laica que quería limitar los derechos tradicionales de la iglesia en el campo de la educación, la pluralidad jurídica implicada en la permanencia del fuero eclesiástico e imponer, al mismo tiempo, un contra autoritario sobre la libertad de la prensa cuando implicaba críticas a la política oficial.

Brilliantly gripping Sunday Times; Compelling Daily Mail; Heart-rending Sunday Telegraph; Excellent The Times;Engrossing Independent The UKs only war crimes trial took place in 1999 and had its origins in the horrors of the Holocaust, but only now inTheTicket Collector from Belarus?

Helicopters patrolled low over the city, filming blocks of burning cars and buildings, mobs breaking into storefronts, and the vicious beating of truck driver Reginald Denny.

Here is a vividly written and compact overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as the "e;Founding Fathers"e;--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "e;philosopher-kings"e; as American or world history has ever seen.

Thurgood Marshall became a living icon of civil rights when he argued Brown v.

For much of the twentieth century, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) officials recognized that the US-Mexico border region was different.

Here is a vividly written and compact overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as the "e;Founding Fathers"e;--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "e;philosopher-kings"e; as American or world history has ever seen.

Americans today choose from a dizzying array of schools, loosely lumped into categories of "e;public"e; and "e;private.

Sex, privilege, corruption, and revenge--these are elements that we expect to find splashed across today's tabloid headlines.

Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v.

Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v.

For much of the twentieth century, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) officials recognized that the US-Mexico border region was different.

Americans today choose from a dizzying array of schools, loosely lumped into categories of "e;public"e; and "e;private.

Sex, privilege, corruption, and revenge--these are elements that we expect to find splashed across today's tabloid headlines.

Helicopters patrolled low over the city, filming blocks of burning cars and buildings, mobs breaking into storefronts, and the vicious beating of truck driver Reginald Denny.

Books about the work of James Joyce are an academic industry.

This book shows the trends in jurisprudence which guided the United States in its first hundred years.

In the Civil War, the United States and the Confederate States of America engaged in combat to defend distinct legal regimes and the social order they embodied and protected.

'Chris is a powerful force for good in the national debate on criminal justice.

'Chris is a powerful force for good in the national debate on criminal justice.

The 1930s was a decade that provided impressive breakthroughs in the field of forensic ballistics, or firearms identification.

The Supreme Court's 1919 decision in Schenck vs.

The Supreme Court's 1919 decision in Schenck vs.

Lee Bollinger is one of our foremost experts on the First Amendment--both an erudite scholar and elegant advocate.

Chief Justice John Marshall argued that a constitution "e;requires that only its great outlines should be marked [and] its important objects designated.

For almost sixty years, the results of the New Deal have been an accepted part of political life.

Chief Justice John Marshall argued that a constitution "e;requires that only its great outlines should be marked [and] its important objects designated.

On an April evening in 1779, a woman is shot on the steps of Covent Garden.

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'Men's lives are a perpetual conflict.

This popular history of the English Civil War tells the story of the bloody conflict between Oliver Cromwell and Charles I from the perspectives of those involved.

William Hague has written the life of William Wilberforce who was both a staunch conservative and a tireless campaigner against the slave trade.

A revelatory look at the Warren Burger Supreme Court finds that it was not moderate or transitional, but conservativeand it shaped todays constitutional landscape.

The number one Irish Times bestsellerIn 1970, Taoiseach Jack Lynch accused two cabinet ministers, Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney, of smuggling arms to the IRA in Northern Ireland.

'A book about a strange form of pop art where the criminal and the celebrity meet'Jeremy Deller'I've been waiting for a book like this for years, and this is the best I could have hoped for.

An exploration of the early Irish laws that defined everyday life in Medieval Ireland, as well as analysis of their history, influences, and development prior to the supplantation of English common law.

This is an abridgement of the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Dred Scott Case, making Fehrenbacher's monumental work available to a wider audience.

The Electoral College that governs America has been with us since 1804, when Thomas Jefferson's supporters redesigned it for his re-election.

Are corporations citizens?

Since America's founding, the U.

Between the summer of 1937 and November 1938, the Stalinist regime arrested over 1.

In 1950s America, it was remarkably easy for police to arrest almost anyone for almost any reason.

From 1953 to 1969, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren brought about many of the proudest achievements of American constitutional law.