Legal history

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Challenges much of the conventional wisdom about Holmes, exploring his identity through his nineteenth-century social and intellectual context.

A history of the American international lawyers who strove to establish a world without war through their scholarship and activities.

Can a constitutional democracy commit suicide?

An essential and easy to use collection of prayers bound in a durable and portable format for the most frequently encountered pastoral occasions.

A five-part course for small groups that aims to help you discover one simple truth: that God loves you passionately, deeply and unconditionally.

Juvenile Justice and Expressive Arts: Creative Disruptions through Art Programs for and with Teens in a Correctional Institution explores art programming as a sustainable educational initiative to support incarcerated teens' successful reintegration to society.

This book examines how young men between the ages of 18 and 21 make the transition to prison life and how they adapt practically, socially and psychologically.

This four volume collection looks at the essential issues concerning crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century.

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

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.

This book aims to highlight the causes why the Prohibition Era led to an evolution of the New York mob from a rural, ethnic and small-scale to an urban, American and wide-scale crime.

This book offers a new interpretation of the foundations of Hugo Grotius'' highly influential doctrine of natural law and natural rights.

In recent years, the lifecourse perspective has become a popular theoretical orientation toward crime.

This extensively updated second edition considers how Roman law worked in practice, viewed in its social and economic context.

This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of the study of the rule of law across law, the humanities, and social sciences, as well as insights into the practice of building the rule of law within and among states.

Analyzing what is known about violence against women, this book centers on the contrast between the U.

In the depths of the Great Depression, when foreclosure rates skyrocketed across the United States, more than two dozen states passed mortgage-extension or -adjustment laws to help farmers and homeowners keep their properties.

Throughout the nineteenth century, the performance of sacred drama on the English public stage was prohibited by law and custom left over from the Reformation: successive Examiners of Plays, under the control of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, censored and suppressed both devotional and blasphemous plays alike.

Constitutionalism: Past, Present, and Future is the definitive collection of Dieter Grimm's most influential writings on constitutional thought and interpretation.

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.

This volume from leading lawyers, historians and social scientists explores encounters of laws, people, and place in Australia since 1788.

This book takes up the challenge of legally defining religion in contemporary India by investigating the intellectual history of colonial law.

Community paralegals - sometimes called barefoot lawyers - help people take on injustice.

On the evening of 2nd November 1952, a shot fired from a makeshift weapon on a warehouse roof in Croydon killed PC Sidney Miles.

The study of Canadian legal history has seen a remarkable growth in the past decade, nowhere more so than in Atlantic Canada.

A Companion to American Legal History presents a compilation of the most recent writings from leading scholars on American legal history from the colonial era through the late twentieth century.

This book places prostitution at the very centre of European history in the twentieth century.

A comprehensive discussion of the supreme magistrates in Rome, from the beginning of the Republic until the age of Augustus.

This book addresses recent changes in Central and Eastern Europe in order to critically consider the impact of illiberal conservatism on constitutionalism.

Explores the role of criminal intent in constituting felony in the first two centuries of the English criminal trial jury.

This book presents a history which is nearing its nadir, where a species of warlike primates is destroying the delicate web of life perceived by Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species, committing a war against nature and the fastest mass extinction in the history of nature, with global temperatures incinerating the biosphere by several degrees Celsius, within a lifetime.

Die Herausgeber, Vertreter der Fächer Altes Testament und Alte Geschichte, legen mit Kollegen anderer Disziplinen zusammen ein interkulturelles Projekt zur Gesetzgebung in antiken Gesellschaften vor.

This volume addresses the pluralistic identity of the legal order.

Despite the outpouring of works on constitutional theory in the past several decades, no general introduction to the field has been available.

With Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A magisterial account of criminal law in early modern Russia in a wider European and Eurasian context.

This book brings together an influential group of academics and researchers to review key areas of research, theory and methodology within criminology and criminal justice, and to identify the most important new challenges facing the discipline.

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 a popular sense, 'law' connotes the rules of a society, as well as the institutions that make and enforce those rules.

Sexual violence, in all its forms, is a crime for which anecdotal accounts and scholarly reports suggest victims in their great majority do not receive adequate 'justice' or redress.

For some, he was Americas leading smut king, hauled into court repeatedly over thirty years for peddling obscene publications through the mail.

A multi-disciplinary approach to two of the most important legal institutions of the Middle Ages.

How was the Banking Union, the most advanced legal and institutional integration in the single market, created?

Crime and punishment are social and cultural manifestations; they are closely bound up with people's perceptions of morality, norms and values.

Over the last fifteen years, the analytical field of punishment and society has witnessed an increase of research developing the connection between economic processes and the evolution of penality from different standpoints, focusing particularly on the increase of rates of incarceration in relation to the transformations of neoliberal capitalism.