Legal history

She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power 1619 to 1969 proves that The Black Woman liberated herself.

Focusing on John Milton's Paradise Lost , this book investigates the metaphorical identification of nature with a court of law - an old and persistent trope, haunted by ancient aporias, at the intersection of jurisprudence, philosophy and literature.

Focusing on John Milton's Paradise Lost , this book investigates the metaphorical identification of nature with a court of law - an old and persistent trope, haunted by ancient aporias, at the intersection of jurisprudence, philosophy and literature.

'This is a provocative re-examination of our legal history appearing at a time when Australians are reconsidering both their past and their future.

There is more to law than rules, robes and precedents.

'This is a provocative re-examination of our legal history appearing at a time when Australians are reconsidering both their past and their future.

There is more to law than rules, robes and precedents.

Explores the politics of pornography and censorship in Russia today as a facet of the overall process of creating a liberal democracy in the Former Soviet Union.

The essays in this volume appeared in slightly different versions in the Emory Law Journal, volume 42, number 2, pages 433-560.

Originally published in 1930, this book outlines the system of local government at work in the reign of Edward I and provides a guide to the study of the 3 volumes of the Rotuli Hundredorum and Placita Quo Warranto which were printed early in the nineteenth century.

Although there have been many studies of the English revolution and its more dramatic trials, until this book was published in 1971, little attention had been paid to the Long Parliament's attempts to impeach a number of judges.

Although there have been many studies of the English revolution and its more dramatic trials, until this book was published in 1971, little attention had been paid to the Long Parliament's attempts to impeach a number of judges.

This interdisciplinary volume discusses the division of the early modern material world into the important legal, economic, and personal categories of mobile and immobile property, possession, and the rights to usufruct.

Free Speech and Hate Speech in the United States explores the concept and treatment of hate speech in light of escalating social tensions in the global twenty-first century, proposing a shift in emphasis from the negative protection of individual rights toward a more positive support of social equality.

This book presents a comprehensive history of law and religion in the Nordic context.

This book presents a comprehensive history of law and religion in the Nordic context.

This interdisciplinary volume discusses the division of the early modern material world into the important legal, economic, and personal categories of mobile and immobile property, possession, and the rights to usufruct.

Free Speech and Hate Speech in the United States explores the concept and treatment of hate speech in light of escalating social tensions in the global twenty-first century, proposing a shift in emphasis from the negative protection of individual rights toward a more positive support of social equality.

This book, first published in 1988, is an English translation of the sixteenth-century Spanish treatise Tratado de Cuentas or On Accounts by Diego del Castillo.

This book, first published in 1988, is an English translation of the sixteenth-century Spanish treatise Tratado de Cuentas or On Accounts by Diego del Castillo.

Throughout America's history, lawyers with a crusading zeal have, through their moral stance, intellectual integrity, and sheer brilliance, made use of the law to fight social injustice.

Throughout America's history, lawyers with a crusading zeal have, through their moral stance, intellectual integrity, and sheer brilliance, made use of the law to fight social injustice.

This book critiques the dominant physical and biological interpretation of the Genocide Convention and argues that the idea of "e;culture"e; is central to properly understanding the crime of genocide.

This book critiques the dominant physical and biological interpretation of the Genocide Convention and argues that the idea of "e;culture"e; is central to properly understanding the crime of genocide.

This edited collection offers multi-disciplinary reflections and analysis on a variety of themes centred on nineteenth century executions in the UK, many specifically related to the fundamental change in capital punishment culture as the execution moved from the public arena to behind the prison wall.

This edited collection offers multi-disciplinary reflections and analysis on a variety of themes centred on nineteenth century executions in the UK, many specifically related to the fundamental change in capital punishment culture as the execution moved from the public arena to behind the prison wall.

While pre-modernity is often considered to be the 'time' of non-European regions and modernity is seen as belonging to the West, this book seeks to transcend the temporal bifurcation of that world history into 'pre-modern' and 'modern', as well as question its geographical split into two irreconcilable trajectories: the European and the non-European.

This book charts the formation of the French Civil Code, examining both its public and private effects.

While pre-modernity is often considered to be the 'time' of non-European regions and modernity is seen as belonging to the West, this book seeks to transcend the temporal bifurcation of that world history into 'pre-modern' and 'modern', as well as question its geographical split into two irreconcilable trajectories: the European and the non-European.

This book charts the formation of the French Civil Code, examining both its public and private effects.

Firmly rooted on Roman and canon law, Italian legal culture has had an impressive influence on the civil law tradition from the Middle Ages to present day, and it is rightly regarded as "e;the cradle of the European legal culture.

Firmly rooted on Roman and canon law, Italian legal culture has had an impressive influence on the civil law tradition from the Middle Ages to present day, and it is rightly regarded as "e;the cradle of the European legal culture.

This book presents a review of historical and emerging legal issues that concern the interpretation of the international crime of genocide.

This book presents a review of historical and emerging legal issues that concern the interpretation of the international crime of genocide.

This collection focuses on how troubled times impact upon the law, the body politic, and the complex interrelationship among them.

This collection focuses on how troubled times impact upon the law, the body politic, and the complex interrelationship among them.

This book systematically investigates the capital punishment of girls and women in one jurisdiction in the United States over nearly four centuries.

This book systematically investigates the capital punishment of girls and women in one jurisdiction in the United States over nearly four centuries.

Colonial rule distorts a colony's economy and its society, and British rule was no exception.

Colonial rule distorts a colony's economy and its society, and British rule was no exception.

Based on research fieldwork conducted in France and Germany, this study seeks to explain how public actors have taken part in the regulation of the expression of right-wing radicalism.

Based on research fieldwork conducted in France and Germany, this study seeks to explain how public actors have taken part in the regulation of the expression of right-wing radicalism.

This volume uses four case studies, all with strong London connections, to analyze homicide law and the pardoning process in eighteenth-century England.

This volume uses four case studies, all with strong London connections, to analyze homicide law and the pardoning process in eighteenth-century England.

Americas founders extolled a nation of laws, for they knew that only a fairly enforced legal system could protect liberty and property against corruption and tyranny.

Crises are never the best of times and the era of the Great Western Schism (1378-1417) easily qualifies as one of the worst of times.

Until President Gerald Ford pardoned former president Richard Nixon for the Watergate scandal, most members of the public probably paid little attention to the presidents use of the clemency power.

In the American imagination the West denotes a borderbetween civilization and wilderness, past and future, native and newcomerand its lawlessness is legendary.

In 1957, there were over a thousand men in prison for 'homosexual offences'.

Gamboa's World examines the changing legal landscape of eighteenth-century Mexico through the lens of the jurist Francisco Xavier de Gamboa (17171794).